De Gustibus Disputandum Est: Non-Linearity in Public Transportation Service Quality Evaluation

Amanda Stathopoulos*, Edoardo Marcucci

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

User perceptions of service quality are essential to promote public transport ridership and trigger positive externalities. Therefore, research efforts need to analyze service quality from the point of view of users. This article builds on the stream of works studying perceptions of public transport service quality but shifts the focus towards user heterogeneity. Using a discrete choice experiment this article attempts to disentangle different dimensions of decision heterogeneity for bus services. Among the main findings the article discusses the implications of different types of decision heterogeneity, such as non-linear preferences, and relates this to the formulation of bus service contracts.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)47-68
Number of pages22
JournalInternational Journal of Sustainable Transportation
Volume8
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014

Keywords

  • discrete choice
  • multinomial logit
  • public transportation
  • random parameter logit
  • service quality
  • user perceptions

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Environmental Engineering
  • Civil and Structural Engineering
  • Geography, Planning and Development
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • Automotive Engineering
  • Transportation

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