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In this study, the data from 1991 to 2016 are used to explore the factors affecting the motorcycle sales volume in Taiwan, such as the number of passengers of city bus, GDP per capita and total population number with the motorcycle sales volume as the independent variable. The study results show that the regression result of the number of passengers of city bus is significantly positive, indicating that the mass transportation is more developed in the case of bigger number of passengers of city bus, while the motorcycle sales volume would be reduced along with the mass transportation development. The regression result of the GDP per capita is significantly positive; the regression result of the total population number is significantly negative; and the regression result of the motorcycle sales volume is not significant. It can thus be known that it is not feasible to solve the motorcycle congestion problem in urban areas simply by raising the fees of motorcycle parking lots and the public transportation must be developed to divert the traffic of commute population and increase the market occupancy of the public transportation. To this end, the government should continue to promote various public transportation development schemes and call on the public to take public transportation means in the future.
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