The Impact Analysis of Deregulation of the Local Bus Industry through the Cost Functions

• Kakimoto Ryuji

  Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kumamoto University

抄録

Road Transport Law was partly amended in 2002. Then, a regulation to adjust supply and demand of bus services was repealed, and subsidization for the local bus industry was modified. This amendment aimed an activation of bus services. This paper aims to analyze deregulated effects of the bus industry. First, a Trans-Log Cost Function is estimated with consideration to a effective period of the deregulation and the competitive pressures in the transportation markets. Second, the relation between regional differences and competitive pressures in the transportation markets is verified by using this Cost Function. Then, effects of the competitive pressures to productive structure of the bus industry are analyzed. Consequently, it is found that the production structure is different between regions and the competitive pressures lead the bus industry to cost inefficiency.

収録刊行物

• Proceedings of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies

  Proceedings of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies 2011 (0), 199-199, 2011

  Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies

キーワード

• Deregulation of the bus industry
• Trans-Log Cost Function
• Productivity
• Potential of Competitive Pressure

詳細情報

• CRID: 1390001205676316800
• NII論文ID: 130005037357
• DOI: 10.11175/eastpro.2011.0.199.0
• 本文言語コード: en
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