On the Points of Discontinuity of the Frequency of Trains

Regional Factors (1)

Abstract

What are the regional factors deciding the discontinuity of the frequency of the train operation? In order to find out this, I calculated the coefficient of frequency versus the mileages of the railway section, and computed the relative weight of the regional factors by the Sequential approximation method.
The following nine factors are what I have pointed out as regional factors: Population (1: the rate of industrial population, 2: the rate of commercial population, 3: the rate of service population, 4: the rate of occupation population), 5: sight seeing, 6: section of operation of passenger, 7: points of transfer, 8: control of train operation, 9: the distance from the starting station.
Each of the nine factors above mentioned is divided into three and by the Sequential approximation method the weight of the factors was calculated. Thus it was found out what regional factors caused the discontinuity in the train operation.
In coefficint, the factor due to the different ways of the operation shows the highest figure, followed by those of the points of transfer, and topographical obstacles. Among factors, more such of the technical nature of train operation are influential, than those due to the character of the population.