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CCTV news
from April 28th to the end of the year, the railway department will reduce the fare of some 28 intercity rail trains, and some of the lines will be 20%. The railway department also indicated that in the future, the fare will be flexible and fluctuate according to the market supply and demand, and the trial price will be gradually tested.
the price of a part of the train ticket price is up to 20%
12306 railway websites: the D7261 train from Guangzhou to Zhuhai in April 27th, the first class is 90 yuan, and the two is 70 yuan; in April 28th, the first seat is 72 yuan, and the two seat is 56 yuan. It is understood that the railway department will carry out discounts on the fare of 28 intercity railway trains from Guangzhou to Zhuhai, Dandong to Dalian and Zhengzhou to Kaifeng, the maximum increase to 20%.
Ma Min, an associate professor at Beijing Jiaotong University:
in the case of discounts, some passengers will increase their travel, and some passengers miss their rush hours to take a relatively less tight ride and take off part of their capacity. For those who just need, under such circumstances, the overall revenue of the railway will go up.
the price rises part of the price of the Beijing Shanghai line
reporter at the same time inquiries the recent Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway sleeper train tickets, found that the price of part of the train rise, from Shanghai to Beijing, D312 train in April 20th for example, the original ticket price is 650 yuan, the current rise It's 740 yuan. Experts said that the implementation of floating fare in 2015 began pilot, the pricing of floating fare is based on the analysis of railway big data.
Ma Min, an associate professor at Beijing Jiaotong University:
the railway department has done a lot of investigations, and studied the willingness of the passengers to pay and the sensitivity of the discount to the fare.
experts at the same time said that the current Beijing Shanghai line of floating fare, Monday to Thursday and Saturday for the peak price, Friday, Sunday for the weekend price, the future trial of one day in the future.