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MANAGEMENT REVIEW OF OPERATIONS

業務回顧報告書

REVENUE AND COSTS

In 1988. revenue and costs increased

by 2% and 6.3% respectively as

compared with the previous year. The

increase in costs was largely due to

wage increases, inflation and the

improvement of services under the

Route Development Programme.

With effect from 1st June, 1988, a

pay-rise of 8% was granted to our

8,600 daily-rated employees. These pay

increases represented an additional

annual cost to the Company of $55

million. As part of the pay rise, both

the Good Service Bonus and the Safe Driving Bonus for Bus Captains were

each increased by $2 from $25 to $27 per working day respectively. As a

result, the current average monthly

take-home pay for most bus captains operating 2-axle buses amounts to about $6,500 and for those on the larger 3-axle buses, about $7,000.

PASSENGERS AND DISTANCE OPERATED

During the year under review, an average of 2.96 million passengers per day rode on the Company's buses (1987:2.98million) giving a total of 1,082 million_passengers for the year

(1987:1,088 million), a decrease of 0.6%. The actual distance travelled by

the Company's buses also decreased

by 3.3%, to a total of 202 million kilometres.

The drop in daily ridership and distance travelled is mainly caused by worsening traffic congestion. Another

factor contributing to the decline was the withdrawal of routes and

restrictions on boarding/alighting on

external routes in the North West

收入及成本

一九八八年度之收入及成本較去年分別

增加百分之二及百分之六點三。成本增加

主要是由於薪金增加、通貨膨脹以及根據

路線發展計劃改善服務所致。

由一九八八年六月一日起,本公司之

八千六百名日薪員工獲加薪百分之八。

是次加薪使本公司全年成本增加五千五百

萬元。此外為車長而設之良好服務獎勵金

及安全駕駛獎勵金亦各增加二元,即由

每一工作天二十五元增至二十七元。

經是次加薪後,大部份駕駛兩軸巴士之

車長現時每月收入平均約達六千五百元,

而駕駛較大型三軸巴士之車長則約為

七千元。

乘客數目及行車路程

本年度內,每日平均載客量爲二百九十六

萬人次(一九八七年為二百九十八萬

人次),全年總載客量為十億八千二百萬

人次(一九八七年為十億八千八百萬

人次 ),下降百分之零點六,而本公司

巴士之實際行車路程為二億零二百萬

公里,亦減少百分之三點三。

每日乘客量下降及行車路程減少之主要

原因是因為交通擠塞情況日益嚴重,

另一個造成乘客量及行車路程減少之

因素為取銷多條行走輕鐵服務專區之巴士

線及限制外圍巴士線不得在新界西北部

輕鐵服務專區上落客。正如本公司在去年

年報所料,該項措施合九巴每日乘客量

損失約十三萬四千人次(佔九巴總乘客量

百分之四點四 )。

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