Model of personal attitudes towards transit service quality

Journal of Advanced Transportation

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 271-285

  Habib, Khandker M Nurul ^a   Kattan, Lina ^b   Islam, Tazul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attitude; Discrete choice model; Latent variable; Mode choice; Multimodal transportation; Transit service quality

Indexed keywords

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION; MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION; PUBLIC POLICY;

ATTITUDE; DISCRETE CHOICE MODELS; LATENT VARIABLE; MODE CHOICE; TRANSIT SERVICES;

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 83455163433     PISSN: 01976729     EISSN: 20423195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/atr.106     Document Type: Article

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