Relationship between service quality and demand for inter-urban buses

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1716-1729

  Rojo, Marta ^a   Gonzalo Orden, Hernán ^a   dell'Olio, Luigi ^b   Ibeas, ángel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BURGOS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Inter urban bus service; Public transport demand; Transport planning

Indexed keywords

BUS TRANSPORTATION; BUSES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION;

DISCRETE CHOICE MODELS; HIERARCHICAL GROUPS; MODE OF TRANSPORT; PUBLIC TRANSPORT; SATISFACTION MODEL; TRANSPORT PLANNING; URBAN BUS; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

URBAN TRANSPORTATION;

BUS TRANSPORT; DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PUBLIC TRANSPORT; RAILWAY TRANSPORT; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; URBAN TRANSPORT; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

BURGOS [CASTILLA Y LEON]; CASTILLA Y LEON; SPAIN;

EID: 84870289230     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2012.07.006     Document Type: Article

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