Shanghai Inland Waterway Transport In The Survey Methodology Research

The communication and transportation business is the important component of the national economy, while the inland waterway transportation is now playing the increasingly prominent role in it. The statistics and investigation of the inland waterway transportation is, accordingly, receiving the increasing attention from the whole country. That has therefore put forward a higher and stricter demand on the statistics and investigation of the inland waterway transportation, so that the scientific and reasonable statistics and investigation can help to gain the proper and helpful important data and statistic index about the construction and management of the inland ports and the programming of the inland water routes.Considering the importance and the practical significance of the statistics and investigation of the inland waterway transportation, the Ministry of Communication has already begun the study about the statistic method on the volume of the national inland waterway transportation in 1993. As the most developed inland shipping district, Shanghai stands on the top of the list among all the provinces and cities with regard to the exploration and studying of it.With the help of the study on the statistics and investigation system in the transportation volume in American inland waterway, this paper has made it clear that it is quite feasible to make the statistics and investigation of the inland waterway transportation volume relying on the port and shipping supervision department in the area of Shanghai and other areas with such a similar functional department as in Shanghai.By means of the demonstration and analysis of the current statistics and investigation method in Shanghai, this paper has also made a comprehensive comment and analysis on the current method in a way of two levels of the current method itself and its resulting effects. Meanwhile, the author has launched the detailed analysis with the principle of the optimum model among all the surveys and provided the model for reference.Finally, the author has brought forward a feasible suggestion regarding the current method of sampling and reckoning, and pointed out the confronted problems and the corresponding measures for the statistics and investigation of inland waterway with the trend of waterway transportation informationization.Wen Yang(lndustry Economics) Directed by Prof. Xiao Zhaoyuan...