Yield Management Method Focused on Discount Ticket Sales Quota

Last updated on 23 March 2021 10:24
One approach for increasing the revenue of railway undertakings is to adopt yield management techniques, by setting quotas for discount ticket sales of reserved seats on express trains. We developed a method to calculate the optimum sales quota, incorporating estimations for the demand of various discount tickets and purchase behavior...
Author(s): Shingo NAKAGAWA;Takamasa SUZUKI;Ryosuke MATSUMOTO;Noriko FUKASAWA;Naoya OZAKI
Organisation(s): RTRI ;
2020
Japan
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