An Application of Gravity Model to Analysis the Distribution of Tickets between Hualien and other cities in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Chia-Ju Hsieh, 謝佳如
• Other Authors: Chih-Peng Chu
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/9r35hz

碩士 === 國立東華大學 === 企業管理學系 === 106 === Hualien is a must to most of tourists (domestic or foreign). The need of travel is much higher than current supplies. It is hard for a traveler to get a train ticket from Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) to visit Hualien. But, in many cases, there still are several empty seats in the train indeed. This discrepancy indicates the distribution (endowment assignment) of tickets of TRA unsuitable. First, we collected the recycle train tickets of Hualien and applied to the gravity model to estimate current principle of seat endowment assignment principle. This study finds out that TRA seat endowment assignment only based on the distance and employed population. In addition, we introduced a more reasonable seat endowment assignment by modified gravity mode. We analyze the lived population, employed population, income of family and the distance of railway to Hualien for the major cities in Taiwan.