Using AHP to measure the perception gap between current and potential users of bus services

Transportation Planning and Technology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 4-23

  Mahmoud, Moataz ^a   Hine, Julian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

analytical hierarchy process; bus services quality; user perception

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; BUS SERVICES; BUS TRANSIT SERVICE; MULTI-CRITERIA; MULTI-CRITERIA EVALUATION; MULTI-CRITERIA MODEL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF VARIANCES; POTENTIAL USERS; QUALITY EVALUATION; QUALITY INDICATORS; QUALITY MEASURES; SEPARATE ANALYSIS; SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS; TRANSPORT QUALITY; USER PERCEPTIONS;

BUS TRANSPORTATION; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; SURVEYS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

BUS TRANSPORT; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERCEPTION; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; TRANSPORTATION MODE; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84871129313     PISSN: 03081060     EISSN: 10290354     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03081060.2012.745316     Document Type: Review

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