Evaluation of Community Cafe's Utility for Public Transportation Use in a Local Community in Japan
This study discusses the usefulness of a community cafe as a bus waiting place in local community, depopulated area in Japan. The idea is that passengers can wait comfortably for a bus at a community cafe even when financial constraints have caused the waiting time to increase as a result of reductions in transportation service frequency. To analyze the relationship between passenger’s satisfaction with bus transportation when a community cafe is used as a bus waiting place, a multiattribute utility function (MUF) and orthogonal arrays were used. The analysis shows that the utility function scores for factor combinations such as community cafe as a bus waiting place and either longer waiting time, or higher bus fare are higher than those for the combinations of canopied shelter with seats and either shorter waiting time or lower bus fare.
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Authors:
- KISHI, KUNIHIRO
- TAKADA, HIROSHI
- HIGASHIMOTO, Yasushi
- Publication Date: 2013
Language
- English
- Japanese
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Figures; Maps; Photos; References; Tables;
- Pagination: pp 1334-1346
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Serial:
- Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies
- Volume: 10
- Issue Number: 0
- Publisher: Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies
- EISSN: 1881-1124
- Serial URL: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/easts/-char/en
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Publication flags:
Open Access (libre)
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Bus stop shelters; Level of service; Transit riders
- Uncontrolled Terms: Coffeehouses; Community centers; Waiting areas; Waiting time (Transit riders)
- Geographic Terms: Japan
- Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01506791
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
- Files: TRIS, JSTAGE
- Created Date: Feb 10 2014 4:47PM