00984584

Component

https://doi.org/10.3141/1884-03

http://scholar.google.com...oote&publication_year=2004

The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) used customer-derived performance measures to evaluate CTA bus and rail operations in a series of biennial random-digit-dial telephone surveys (1995 to 2001). These measures were used to develop customer-focused bus service improvement initiatives, the impact of which was measured in subsequent surveys. The methods described succeeded in nearly doubling CTA bus customer satisfaction levels by 2001. There were many positive impacts, not the least of which was significant growth in annual bus ridership. By the end of 2002, CTA had experienced 5 consecutive years of bus ridership growth after many years of bus ridership decline. The development and use of customer-derived performance measures, management application of research findings, methods used to prioritize survey results into actionable programs, and key results are discussed. Among the points discussed are critical definitions of customer satisfaction and loyalty, grouping of customer-derived performance attributes into performance dimensions, and benefits of geographic market segmentation techniques in focusing management initiatives.

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1884, Transit: Bus, Rural Public Transportation, and Paratransit.

00984581

English

p. 18-26

2004

Transportation Research Record

0309094798

Figures (7) ; References (11) ; Tables (3)

Bus transit operations; Customer satisfaction; Improvements; Market segmented groups; Performance; Ridership; Surveys

Chicago Transit Authority

Chicago (Illinois)

Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

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