Quantifying and validating measures of airport terminal wayfinding

Journal of Air Transport Management

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 151-158

  Churchill, Anthony ^a   Dada, Ezekiel ^b   de Barros, Alexandre G ^a   Wirasinghe, S C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b Bunt and Associates   (Canada)

Author keywords

Level of service; Passenger orientation; Visibility index; Wayfinding

Indexed keywords

AIRPORT; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY;

EID: 43549093700     PISSN: 09696997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jairtraman.2008.03.005     Document Type: Article

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