A Study of Passengers' Willingness-to-Pay to Reduce the Bus Air Pollutant in Taipei City Bus-lanes
碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 管理學院碩士在職專班運輸物流組 === 97 === Bus lane is a kind of exclusive facility for bus. It makes bus run in the designated lane which separates with cars or motorcycles in order to let bus has the exclusive right of road to avoid the traffic congestion in rush hours and escaping for interferi...
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| Language: | zh-TW |
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2009
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| Online Access: | http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/98575012324627439845 |
| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 管理學院碩士在職專班運輸物流組 === 97 === Bus lane is a kind of exclusive facility for bus. It makes bus run in the designated lane which separates with cars or motorcycles in order to let bus has the exclusive right of road to avoid the traffic congestion in rush hours and escaping for interfering with private cars or motorcycles when stopping on road side for passengers getting on and off. But the stopping buses at the same time will generate lots of high concentration of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) which can affect the health of waiting passengers beside bus station. This study assumes that buses use electricity to replace traditional diesel engine by using willingness-to-pay survey to ask passenger how much he is willing to pay for improving the circumstance and healthy when waiting for bus.
The analysis result of this survey shows interviewee feels the air quality in Taipei is not good which matches the monitoring results from EPA. The interviewee beside the bus station shows higher ratio of willingness to pay NTD 5 for the extra cost of lowering waste gas emission than other interviewee who seldom waits bus beside bus station. When interviewer informs the price of electricity bus, most of interviewees express that price is too expansive. When interviewer tells them the electrical bus fee is NTD 20, most interviewees shows more acceptances by comparing with currently bus fee of NTD 15; the difference NTD 5 is not so high. Interviewees express they could afford to the price to reduce the air pollution for protecting their health.
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