China's Railway Transportation Demand Analysis 

Guiting YANG 

Chongqing Jiaotong University, School of Management and Economics, Chongqing, 400074, CHINA 

Abstract: In recent years, the rapid growth of China's economic and the traffic volume also growth rapidly. By studying the relationship between railway freight volume and its influence factors to study the problem of railway goods transportation needs. Using the multiple linear regression to the data on railway freight volume and its influence factors of the empirical analysis. the result show that the transport of grain, metal ore freight volumes, GDP, steel and nonferrous metal volume have significant impact on railway freight volume; Fruit volume has negative impact on railway freight. 

Keywords: Railway freight volume; Transport demand; Multiple linear regression