Classification of traditional cultural elements in temple street festivals using the fuzzy Kano model

This study aims to explain consumers’ expectations regarding the culture of temple streets and cultivates an identity system for local culture. The Kano model with fuzzy linguistic concepts was applied to the field observation of temple street festivals and the semi-structured interviews of local cultural directors, scholars of cultural centres, government officials, and cultural industry operators with data on traditional cultural elements. The findings show that “Religious temples”, “Custom activities and events”, “Local cultural industries”, and “Specialty and gourmet food” have a symmetrical impact on both satisfaction and dissatisfaction in proportion to the extent of traditional cultural element fulfilment. “Local stories” do not increase overall satisfaction if traditional cultural elements are exceeded but cause dissatisfaction if they are not fulfilled. Moreover, outer “Tangible”, middle “Behavioural”, and inner “Intangible” factors of attractive, one-dimensional, must-be quality transformed into contemporary image designs are amiably illustrated. These results provide a direction for managing satisfaction and a performance guideline for each activity in the process of creating temple street experiences that can increase satisfaction and reduce dissatisfaction.     

Policy in motion: reassembling carbon pricing policy development in the personal transport sector in British Columbia

British Columbia’s carbon tax is an example of a relatively systemic climate pricing policy in the North American transport sector. This research uses Actor-Network Theory to retrace and reassemble the development of the tax from inception to implementation. From the fieldwork, six stages of the policy development process emerged, beginning with the surfacing of the concept of tax shifting in 1998 to the implementation of a carbon tax in 2008. This article explores how British Columbia’s experience aligns with lessons from the carbon taxation literature relating to a range of themes including education, leadership, timing, administration, taxation level, revenue allocation and communication.     

铁路运输中军运运价优惠政策的探讨

铁路军事运输多年来一直享受国家军运运价优惠政策,根据铁路经营体制和机制改革现状,从市场经济、历史发展、国防效益、消费观念及支付能力等5个角度,分析实行军运运价优惠政策的必要性,提出对军运运价进行小幅度调整的设想。     

铁路建设基金的政策取向及替代方案分析

根据财政部有关文件,从2006年开始,铁路建设基金将被停止征收。由于铁路建设基金是铁路建设主要的资金来源,如果在停止征收铁路建设基金后没有可靠稳定的资金来源来取代,将对铁路发展造成严重不利影响。为此,在分析铁路建设基金的地位与作用,以及铁路建设基金的政策取向的基础上,提出铁路建设基金的替代方案。     

铁路效益发展规律与我国铁路产业发展

针对目前社会和学术界存在的关于我国铁路产业发展态势的各种争论。从铁路效益发展的基本规律入手进行研判。从经济学理论来看,铁路效益存在着二律背反规律、业务增值规律、精益生产规律、技术进步规律、制度创新规律、国家扶持规律等六大规律,认为我国铁路产业处于运输化发展的中期阶段,有着良好的客货运输需求支撑,发展基本面良好。我国铁路需转变经营管理体制机制,大力发展多元化经营业务,提高增值收益。国家需改变交通运输公共政策,加大对铁路产业的必要投入,由铁道部统筹铁路改革与发展方案,推进我国铁路产业稳妥渐进变革。     

Impact of economic policy on international tourism demand: the case of Abenomics

Since the 2008 global financial crisis and resulting recession, many countries have been following unconventional monetary policies. Little information is known on how these policies may influence tourism demand. This study starts to fill this gap by investigating the impact of the Japanese economic policy known as Abenomics on South Koreans’ travel to Japan, the largest inbound market for Japan. Per capita gross domestic product, relative prices, and exchange rates are significant determinants of Japanese inbound tourism. As these variables have been influenced by Abenomics, one can infer that Abenomics is associated with a significant increase in tourist arrivals from South Korea. Findings highlight the importance of government economic policy in stimulating international tourism demand through its impact on the economy.     

坚持科学发展 服务和谐大局 为新疆经济社会发展提供可靠的运力保证

铁路在构建社会主义和谐社会中责任重大,对带动新疆经济发展,促进各民族团结进步、共同繁荣作用重要。以乌鲁木齐铁路局发展历程为例,阐述铁路在新疆经济社会发展中的重要作用和突出贡献,展望新疆铁路建设发展前景。     

深入贯彻落实科学发展观 加快推进铁路现代化建设 为经济社会又好又快发展作出更大贡献

全面总结2009年铁路工作,深刻分析铁路发展面临的形势,部署2010年全路重点任务,动员全国铁路干部职工以“高标准、讲科学、不懈怠”的精神和作风,与时俱进,扎实工作,抓住和用好难得的历史机遇,夺取和谐铁路建设新胜利,为经济社会又好又快发展作出新的更大贡献。     

用层次分析模型选择我国铁路营业站

当前我国铁路既有线仍存在营业站设置过多,布局分散的问题,对铁路运输产生了诸多不利的影响。因此,如何选择合理的营业站,对铁路当前生产力布局调整具有重要的现实意义。     

Adapting Strategic Niche Management for evaluating radical transport policies--the case of the Durham Road Access Charging Scheme

Transport systems in the UK are facing severe problems of congestion, rising energy use and pollution. One response to this is the move from local authorities to gradually introduce Travel Demand Management (TDM)¹ strategies, but these measures involve a complicated set of institutions, processes, people and procedures.The old road-building transport policy regime involved a relatively simple system of actors and processes around which expertise, knowledge, and skills had built up over many decades. The result of this is particularly evident for more radical demand management measures (such as congestion charging, workplace parking fees and high occupancy vehicle lanes), which often get held up or discarded due to controversy, disagreements, unanticipated problems, and a whole host of delaying factors. If they ever get implemented, they tend to be watered-down and consequently less effective.One potential way to analyse these problems and identify possible solutions is the use of Strategic Niche Management (SNM). SNM is rooted in organisational innovation diffusion theory and provides a structure to evaluate and manage the introduction of new and innovative transport technologies. This paper introduces Strategic Niche Management and explores transferring this technique for evaluating TDM policy measures. The resulting technique is applied retrospectively to the case of the Durham Road Charging scheme, selected as an example for this paper.     

加快实现我国铁路现代化 为国民经济又好又快发展提供可靠的运力保证

分析世界铁路现代化发展的主要特点和主要标志．总结我国铁路现代化建设成就和存在的差距,阐述加快我国铁路现代化建设的迫切性．提出到2020年我国基本实现铁路现代化的目标内容。     

Assessing policy measures for the stimulation of intermodal transport: a GIS-based policy analysis

Intermodal transport is the combination and integration of several transport modes (such as rail, inland waterways with road transport). In order to make the transhipment easy and efficient standard loading units are used, such as containers or swap-bodies. As for the main haul, more environmental friendly modes are used (rail and inland waterways) and a modal shift towards these modes can help in reducing the congestion. Therefore several policies are directed to stimulate the intermodal transport market.In this paper, a location analysis model for Belgian intermodal terminals (LAMBIT) is developed and used to assess different policy measures in Belgium. The simulations show that the different policy measures oriented towards the rail/road and inland waterways/road combinations should be incorporated in a coherent, integrated vision, in order to not create a modal shift between the different intermodal transport options. The methodology can easily be extended towards a European scale.     

Theoretical framework of systems design for the air transportation system including an inherently quantitative philosophy of scenario development

This paper provides an overview of an inherently quantitative scenario philosophy for systems analysis and innovative concept design in the context of the Air Transportation System (ATS). A general perspective of the ATS is visualized in an “atomic model” with surrounding external scenario factors and the aircraft as the key connecting element between the main stakeholders: manufacturers, airlines, air navigation service providers (ANSPs) and airports. An iterative waterfall model is presented, which serves as a mental model of integration and decomposition over cascades of levels of detail from global scenario level to a single technology. The difference between classical scenario technique and a quantitative, yet participatory methodology of developing scenarios for the ATS is described. In order to integrate and decompose over a large span of levels of details, concept design and synthesis is as important as analysis. Further, quantitative scenario development may be considered as the synthesis of a skillful manipulation of a model deck. Scenario Gaming can be a method to simulate the settlement on requirements of complex socio-technological systems with multiple stakeholders and conflicting perspectives under radically changing boundary conditions. Scenario thinking can be an innovative and explorative instrument of participatory futurology, if not reduced to a mere “input for a tool chain”.     

旅客列车车底运用优化模型及算法

通过论述旅客列车车底运用模式对客车车底使用效率的影响,建立中心客运站车底周转接续方式优化模型,以及具有双层目标函数指派问题的算法。     

A Cournot model for analysing the effects of an open skies agreement

In the last decades there has been a gradual liberalisation of international air transport markets through the implementation of open skies agreements which seek the deregulation of the air transport industry and consequently the functioning of the market in a freer way. The objective of this work is to study the effects of an open skies agreement in order to understand if the airlines and the consumers will benefit after the market deregulation. With this purpose, we develop a Cournot model to compare the initial situation (without agreement) and the situation after the implementation of the open skies agreement.Based on the model developed we conclude that after market liberalisation the prices on international market segments where competition increases should decline, thus benefiting consumers. Regarding the incumbent airlines in the market, an open skies agreement should jeopardize the airlines that fail to operate new routes, leading to decreased profits.     

发挥直管优势推进管理创新为实现路局又好又快发展注入强大合力

探索铁路局直管站段新体制下的企业管理模式,发挥运输部门的专业管理优势,强化综合部门的服务管理职能,加强企业管理,强化制度创新,推进管理创新,促进铁路的改革和发展.