Summary: | 碩士 === 國立成功大學 === 交通管理(科學)學系 === 82 === Since the abolition of the Martial Law in 1987, the issues
of local self-government (i.e. autonomy) , enviroment
protection, as well as the disparity between urban and rural
area have becoming importantin Taiwan. All of these are
releated to the issue of equality which has been ignored in
the past years. The purpose of this study is to investigate
the degree of inequality in the regional distribution of
public investment funds in transportation sector. It is very
difficult to measure this both from theoretical and
empirical point of view. We propose a practical method to
examine this issue by using regional distribution weights
which is analogous to the concept of income distribution
weights. We first review the underlying theoretical basis for
the proposed regional distribution weights. These weights can
be derived empirically using the revealed preference model. We
use probit model to estimate the weights which the decision
makers in the past placed upon the North, Middle, South
regions in making the major transportation investment
decisions. The estimation results indicated that the
phenomenon of regional inequality has been quite series. One
dollar worth of investment benefits in the North region was
weighted as high as five times than the same amount of
benefits in the south region. However,the implementation of
the major transportation investment projects proposed in the
National Construction Plan would reduce such regional
inequality significantly.
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