Abstract
Under the severe fiscal situations, it is necessary for the regional railways in Japan to manage operation costs considering of their features: railway equipments, vehicles, number of scheduled trains, and so on. In this study, targeting on the regional railways in Japan, we analyzed the relationship between operation cost and their features using multiple regression analysis. Compared to previous research, we took the total travel time of trains into account as well as the total travel distance of trains.
As a result, we figure out the correlation between operation cost and their features in 5 categories: driving costs, service costs and maintenance costs of tracks, electrical equipments and vehicles. Besides, it is demonstrated that focusing on traveling time of train is necessary to analyze the operation cost of train.
