A Stated Preference Experiment for Measuring Service Quality in Public Transport

Laura Eboli and Gabriella Mazzulla

Transportation Planning and Technology, 2008, vol. 31, issue 5, 509-523

Abstract: This paper develops a Stated Preference (SP) experiment that provides a way to measure service quality in public transport. The paper introduces an empirical procedure for optimising the SP experiment. This procedure permits the identification of the choice alternatives defining the experiment by simulating the choices of a user sample. By using the data collected from an experimental survey, a Multinomial Logit model was calibrated. This model is a way of identifying the importance of service quality attributes on global customer satisfaction and calculating a Service Quality Index, which provides an operationally appealing measure of current or potential service effectiveness.

Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1080/03081060802364471

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