Willingness-to-pay of public transport users for improvement in service quality

European Transport - Trasporti Europei

Volumn , Issue 38, 2008, Pages 107-118

  Eboli, L ^a   Mazzulla, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Public transport; Service quality; Willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

BUS TRANSPORTATION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION; TRAVEL TIME;

BEHAVIOURAL MODEL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; MARGINAL RATES; MIXED LOGIT MODELS; PUBLIC TRANSPORT; QUALITY LEVELS; SERVICE QUALITY; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 85098747582     PISSN: 18253997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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