| Title | Transportation System Management Strategies for Recreational Areas |
| Dept | Transportation Planning and Land Transport Division |
| Year | 2006 |
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| Summary | As economy of Taiwan becomes mature, tourism has been one of the national important industries. Because the living standard has been improved, people spend more time on recreational activities. Therefore, with both the improvement of recreational supply quality and quantity, and the increase of recreational demand, the actual domestic recreational tourists boost tremendously in recent years. However, according to the report entitled “Travel Survey of R.O.C. Citizens”, 92% of tourists travel with companions. Their travel itineraries usually depend on every participant’s schedule of work or school. Therefore, most people travel on weekends or holidays instead of weekdays. The phenomena result in 74% of people travel on weekends. Under the situations that traffic concentrates on weekends or holidays, the problems, i.e. the tourists-drop between peak and off-peak periods, happened in recreational areas are more serious than that in urban areas. To confront with traffic or transportation problems, there are two possible solutions, including engineering and management aspects. Engineering measures include widening roadways to increase roadway capacity. Management measures, on the other hand, focus on short-term and low capital input strategies to improve the efficiency of existing transportation system. Because the tourists-drop between peak and off-peak periods in recreational areas is so significant, to avoid inefficient investment, it is suitable to center on the strategies of transportation system management. This study devotes on transportation system management to confront with both the problems of booming tourists on weekends or holidays, and large-scale activities. As various transportation systems possess different road network features, this study tries to find suitable transportation management strategies by recreational classification. Besides, on account of the difficulty of requesting or supervising the host- institutes to bring up transportation management strategies without legal or administrative decrees. This study also drew up specific implementation procedures and standards. The contents of this study help to deal with transportation demand of recreational activities. |
| Post date | 2007/03/20 |
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