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Title:

MEASURING THE LEVEL OF SERVICES AT AIRPORT PASSENGER TERMINALS: COMPARISON OF PERCEIVED AND OBSERVED TIME

Accession Number:

00815730

Record Type:

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Order URL: http://worldcat.org/isbn/0309072026

Abstract:

A mathematical model to measure the level of service at airport passenger terminals is presented. The model relates passengers' ratings of services at terminals and the time spent waiting for those services. The fuzzy concept is used to deal with the vagueness of service ratings such as "satisfied" and "unsatisfied." Furthermore, two instruments are used to obtain the amount of time spent in service processes: perceived time reported by passengers and objective quantities measured by researchers. Empirical data reveal that the mean of perceived waiting/service time is significantly greater than the objective time in both check-in and baggage-claim processes, indicating that passengers tend to overestimate their time spent in each process. Furthermore, the amount of overestimation varies among service processes, with passengers having greater overestimations in both check-in service and baggage-claim waiting than in check-in waiting. These results imply that the two former processes are less tolerable than the latter one. The differences between those two measurements are further accentuated by the estimated level-of-service thresholds, with most thresholds based on subjective perceptions being greater than those based on objective measures. Estimation results also suggest that airport operators and the airlines need more efforts to upgrade a service currently at higher service levels than at lower service levels.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1744, Issues in Aviation: Airports, Capacity, and Air Traffic Control and Management.

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

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Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Yen, J-R
Teng, C-H
Chen, P S

Pagination:

p. 17-23

Publication Date:

2001

Serial:

Transportation Research Record

Issue Number: 1744
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISSN: 0361-1981

ISBN:

0309072026

Features:

Figures (3) ; References (9) ; Tables (4)

Uncontrolled Terms:

Baggage claim; Flight checkin

Subject Areas:

Aviation; Highways; Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Aug 3 2001 12:00AM

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