Where Is My Bus? Impact of mobile real-time information on the perceived and actual wait time of transit riders

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 839-848

  Watkins, Kari Edison ^a   Ferris, Brian ^b   Borning, Alan ^b   Rutherford, G Scott ^b   Layton, David ^c  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Public transportation; Real time information; Traveler information; Wait time

Indexed keywords

BUS TRANSPORTATION; BUSES; DISPLAY DEVICES; INFORMATION USE; SMARTPHONES; TEXT MESSAGING; TRAVEL TIME;

INDICATOR VARIABLES; PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION; REAL-TIME INFORMATION; SIGNIFICANT VARIABLES; SMART-PHONE APPLICATIONS; TRAVELER INFORMATION; TRAVELER INFORMATION SYSTEMS; WAIT TIME;

ADVANCED TRAVELER INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

BUS TRANSPORT; INFORMATION SYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PUBLIC TRANSPORT; REAL TIME; TRANSPORTATION; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 79960699192     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2011.06.010     Document Type: Article

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