Satisfaction with travel and subjective well-being: Development and test of a measurement tool

Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 167-175

  Ettema, Dick ^a   Gärling, Tommy ^b,c   Eriksson, Lars ^b   Friman, Margareta ^b   Olsson, Lars E ^b   Fujii, Satoshi ^d  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b KARLSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Satisfaction with travel scale; Subjective well being

Indexed keywords

BUS TERMINALS; BUSES; TRANSPORTATION;

BUS STOP; DAILY ACTIVITY; MEASUREMENT TOOLS; SATISFACTION WITH TRAVEL SCALE; TRAVEL MODES; WELL BEING;

TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 79952039000     PISSN: 13698478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trf.2010.11.002     Document Type: Article

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