Dynamic at-stop real-time information displays for public transport: effects on customers

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 489-501

  Dziekan, Katrin ^a   Kottenhoff, Karl ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Customer satisfaction; Evaluation; Public transport traveller information; Real time information; User reaction; Wait time

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

PUBLIC TRANSPORT; PUBLIC TRANSPORT TRAVELLER INFORMATION; REAL-TIME DISPLAYS; REAL-TIME INFORMATION;

SUBWAY STATIONS;

INFORMATION; PUBLIC TRANSPORT; REAL TIME; TRANSPORTATION MODE; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

EID: 33847730319     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2006.11.006     Document Type: Article

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