Research On Pricing Of Railway Passenger Transport Service

With the establishment and development of market economy system in China, living standard of people and the overall quality of enterprises have been greatly increased. As a fundamental infrastructure of the national economy, transportation industry has presented a rapid growth. And there has been an intense competition among the different transportation service providers.Railway industry, as a participant of the transportation market, has experienced the role change from a monopolist to a regular competitor in the transportation market. Nowadays, Railway market system, as well as other supporting mechanisms including pricing mechanism, seems to lag behind the flourishing railway construction. And the railway industry sector is now facing competition from civil transportation service providers and latent threat from foreign competitors.As a significant part of the transportation market, tariff now is a strategy which is widely applied by the market participants. Meanwhile, price also plays a key role in the resource configuration. Therefore, pricing of Railway passenger transport service makes sense in the competitive market.By analyzing the pricing models and relative experience of both civil and abroad, a model based on the Analytic Hierarchy Process and the Comprehensive Index Evaluation is built in the dissertation. The model relies on reality of China transportation market and is both competitor and consumer oriented. By analyzing different market positioning and consumer group psychology, comprehensive evaluations of relative passenger transport service have been conducted. Thus, based on the evaluation, this model is capable of producing competitive tariffs for the railway passenger transport service.