Issues and Measures for Fare System of Metropolitan Railways -A Study on the Common Fare System-

Abstract

The objective of this study is to investigate issues and necessary measures for fare system of metropolitan railways, especially issues resulting from fare system by railway companies. The common fare system is one of a measure to improve that issues. Most important point is how to improve the user benefit and company's profit by introducing this fare system, so a quantitative analysis using transport demand analysis method are made. This result demonstrated that the common fare system is effective in improving user's benefit and social benefit but it may result in a decrease in company's profit. This study therefore make a suggestion to introduce the common fare system together with some others support measures, such as provision of public subsidy to reduce the user's burden and not to cause any loss in company's profit.