Evaluation of a bus passenger information system from the users' point of view in the city of Thessaloniki, Greece

Research in Transportation Economics

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 249-255

  Politis, Ioannis ^a   Papaioannou, Panagiotis ^a   Basbas, Socrates ^a   Dimitriadis, Nikolaos ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bus passenger real time information system; Payback period; Socioeconomic evaluation; User acceptance evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957000216     PISSN: 07398859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.retrec.2010.07.031     Document Type: Article

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