The Impact of High-speed Railway on Shaoxing Residents' Travel Demand and Behavior

The contribution of China's tourism development and transportation revolution is inseparable. The convenient transportations and the advanced transportation infrastructures have become the prerequisites and the basics of promoting the development of tourism industry. When choosing a tourist destination, the tourists firstly are going to consider the factors of time-space distance, transportation cost and convenience, transportation mode and comfortability, service level and so on. Therefore, transportation factors directly determine the choice of tourists' consumption demand and behaviour. According to the travel mode and the demand of tourism destination and consumption behaviour of Shaoxing residents, this paper intends to analyse the expected impacts of travel demands and behaviours of Hangzhou-Ningbo high-speed railway. And then some effective improvement measures are put forward to make the contributions to the development of high-speed railway in Shaoxing.