Impacts of symbolic value and passenger satisfaction on bus use

Because of the symbolic value of the private car, driving a private car is a signal of wealth and a particular social status, but public transit is considered to be a means of transport for low- and middle-income people in the traditional culture of China, especially in face culture. Some prior studies have verified the impact of the symbolic value of the private car on car use and further indirectly speculated about its impact on public transit use, but these studies have seldom focused on the direct effect of the symbolic value of the private car on public transit use. Based on face-to-face questionnaire survey data from a sample of 323 commuters with experience using buses in Changzhou in 2016, this case study examines the relationship among the symbolic value of the private car and passenger satisfaction with bus services and bus use by using binary logit regression. The empirical results show a stable negative association between the symbolic value of the private car and bus use, while the passenger satisfaction with bus services is positively associated with bus use. These findings imply that improving the public transport services is important for the public transit priority policy, and the policy could be more effective if the Chinese traditional understandings of using public transit and private cars are changed.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2019.04.012
• Record URL:
  • http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1361920918309088
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  • © 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Li, Jinpei
  • Xu, Liqun
  • Yao, Di
  • Mao, Yanwu
• Publication Date: 2019-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 98-113
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment
  • Volume: 72
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 1361-9209
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/13619209

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alternatives analysis; Automobile travel; Bus travel; Commuters; Customer satisfaction; Logits; Mode choice; Policy; Private passenger vehicles; Questionnaires
• Geographic Terms: Changzhou (China); China
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01704952
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 21 2019 11:06AM