Passengers' perceived service quality of city buses in Taipei: Scale development and measurement

Transport Reviews

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 645-662

  Hu, Kai Chieh ^a   Jen, William ^b  

^a KAINAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUS TRANSPORT; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIPEI; TAIWAN;

EID: 33747037566     PISSN: 01441647     EISSN: 14645327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01441640600679482     Document Type: Article

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