| Summary |
Lin, Yu-Chang, 2008.07
A Thesis Submitted to Department of Logistics and Shipping
Management Kainan University
The investment of transport infrastructure not only can provide the public a convenient transport services, but also help induce direct and indirect linkage effects to the national economic activities. It is required a comprehensive mechanism to evaluate the interindustrial linkage effects before placing the investment on the transport project. In Taiwan area, since 1990s, there was
seemingly lacking a complete and long-term economic impact study on what the transport investment will influence the other industries.
Applying input-output (I-O) analysis, the study explores the inetrindustrial linkage effects caused by transportation sectors in Taiwan’s national economy.
This study also treats individual sector as exogenous variable to evaluate the economic effects and understand the detailed interindustry structure. To deeply comprehend the interrelationship between transportation sectors and other industries, this study conducts partitioned matrix multiplier analysis based on I-O analysis to find out the internal and external relationship for both sides. The
results show that inland road transport received most of the investments comparing to other transportation sectors. However, in terms of linkage effects, railway transport played an important role to promote national economic
development and water transport played a strategic role to create more employment opportunities and higher income. Overall, surface transportation (road and railway) is the major transport mode in Taiwan to provide comfortable public transportation service and support other production
activities through comprehensive logistics services. |
