Research On Suzhou Subway Profit Model

Subway social benefits are far greater than the direct economic benefits got from itsinvestment opertations due to huge investments, low fares and other external publiccharacteristics. Subway operating loss is common, but Hong Kong’s Mass Transit Subwayis one of the few subway enterprises in the world that is financially profitable. Therefore,the successful experience of Hong Kong’s Mass Transit Subway should be drawn on toimprove the planning thoughts and management sustainedly, which will be significantlymeaningful to achieve the long-term goal of Suzhou Metro’s sustainable development andto constantly improve its operational management level.Fully based on absorbing previous studies,combined with research of Suzhou profitmetro models, this paper proposed a framework of profit metro models on the basis ofmassive references about metro operations both at home and abroad and furtherdiscussed it in details. It attempted to achieve the objective of exploring and analysing thelocal metro profit model and seeking compensational mechanisms for the policy losseswhich based on the former relevant theoretical research results and the actual situation ofSuzhou mass transit subway.