Understanding social media program usage in public transit agencies

International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 83-92

  Liu, Jenny H ^a   Shi, Wei ^a  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Sam)   (United States)

^c Jeff)   (United States)

^d Jeff)   (China)

Author keywords

Communications; Performance measures; Public transit; Social media; Technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 85044600590     PISSN: 20460430     EISSN: 20460449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijtst.2016.09.005     Document Type: Article

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