306-5230035d--Study of Passenger Transport Price Ratio based on the Transport Supply Chain.pdf

Study of Passenger Transport Price Ratio based on the Transport Supply Chain Jian-guo LI 1, Li-ping FU 2, Hui-bin DU 3, Jun-yu YANG 4 Management school, Tianjin University123,Tianjin,China Mechanical school, Tianjin University4 Tianjin,China Abstract - The paper is a study of the passenger transport, focusing on an effort to find put the bottleneck in the passenger transport development in China through a scientific analysis of the pricing relationships among various modes of transport and further to show the pricing flexibility of the passenger traffic in accordance with the supply chain. Employing the analytic hierarchy process, the authors chose a number of different types of passenger transport in different routes and areas and made a comparison and analysis of their prices, which was subject to real demonstration tests. A conclusion is finally reached that by adjustment of pricing, the transport supply chains can be smoothly brought together in different transport areas. Keywords - transport supply chain, passenger transport, Price ratio, Analytic Hierarchy Process I. INTRODUCTION Transport, a basic industry in a country, is vital to the development of the national economy and society as a whole. It is a complex system and can be categorized, according to the transport modes, as waterway, highway, railway, aviation, and tunnel, and according to agencies, as postal service, multimodal transport agency, travel agency, storage corporation, and transport contractor. They are composed of the Chinese transport complex[1]. This mammoth system is divided into the passenger and the merchandise transport while the passenger transport is realized by waterway, highway, railway and aviation. In recent 30 years passenger transport has been booming in China but its development has been unbalanced so that its efficiency and service quality are negatively affected and the various different transport modes cannot be brought into full pla