PERCEIVED SATISFACTION WITH PUBLIC TRANSPORT SERVICE: CASE STUDY OF GRAS

PERCEIVED SATISFACTION WITH PUBLIC TRANSPORT SERVICE: CASE STUDY OF GRAS

Tandir, Natasa
Tandir, Haris

Abstract: Public service quality is in recent years one of the major challenges for economic analysis. It is due to the size of companies providing public services as well as to the importance of obtained results both for companies offering the services and for the public policy creators and administrators. One of the aspects that can be evaluated is the level of service offered or the supply side. The other side is the perceived satisfaction with the service quality, which represents the demand side aspect. There is not much research that analyses how the passengers perceive the quality of the services. The objective of this paper is two folded. Firstly, to evaluate the quality of GRAS services from the aspect of users and secondly to see what needs to be improved in order for non-users or people who rarely use public transport to become regular users. The information is valuable for policy makers as well as operational managers in the public transport system. An insight into what users consider as important and how they perceive existing public transport service can show that investment and improvement of existing service can really attract new users and keep the existing ones. The data were collected using self-administered internet mediated questionnaires to the residents of Sarajevo Canton. In total 247 persons answered the questionnaire. The response rate was above 50 per cent. The results showed that there is wide space for improvements in service, especially if the company is trying to reach non-users.

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2016

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