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dc.contributor.authorSharic, AHS
dc.contributor.authorKulathunga, MMKRM
dc.contributor.authorDe Silva, MTD
dc.contributor.authorArambawela, SSP
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-06T16:53:32Z
dc.date.available2019-11-06T16:53:32Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir.kdu.ac.lk/handle/345/2144
dc.description.abstractAmong the many reasons, lack of service quality provision of the public transport systems in Sri Lanka results in continuous shift of passengers from public transport to private vehicles. This research is based on estimating the weights of service quality expectation components perceived by the passengers. Factors identified as components of the service quality were walking time from home to the bus halt, waiting time at bus halt to get the bus, in vehicle travel time, in-bus environment and the station environment. Different factor levels for each of the factors were identified through the pilot interviews with passengers. 16 cards that consisted of the different levels of all five factors were developed using factorial design. The respondents were asked to rank the choices for all the 16 cards from a sample of 300 bus passengers including 150 males and 150 females who were the users of bus routes 100, 101, 154 and 158 in Colombo district. The passengers of General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University were used for this research Conjoint analysis was used to analyze the data in order to get the utility levels and weights of each attribute. Through the conjoint analysis utility levels of walking time, waiting time, travel time, in-bus environment and the station environment were generated. The model proved to have high accuracy and validity. In this research the variation of service quality attributes with the gender also were found. Majority of the passenger’s preference was the walking time given the priority as their service quality expectation. Then travel time, waiting time, in-bus environment and the station environment were the priority order respectively. Male passengers also valued the walking time as the highest and then the travel time, in-bus environment, station environment and the walking time respectively. But the preference of females differed from that because their order of priority was walking time, waiting time, travel time, in-bus environment and the station environment respectively. service quality factors that males expect and female service quality expectation
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectService Qualityen_US
dc.subjectConjoint Analysisen_US
dc.subjectWalkingtimeen_US
dc.subjectWaiting Timeen_US
dc.subjectTravel Timeen_US
dc.subjectIn-bus Environmenten_US
dc.subjectStation Environmenten_US
dc.titleThe Estimation of Weight of Factors Influencing Bus Transit Service Quality: Evidence from KDU Commutersen_US
dc.typeArticle Full Texten_US
dc.identifier.journalKDUIRC -2050en_US
dc.identifier.pgnos1015-1021en_US


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