본문 바로가기
  • Home

The Evaluation of Transportation Service Quality by SERVQUAL Method

Kim Jonghak 1 Kim, Ikki 2

1국토연구원
2한양대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

Governments have been aggressively pursuing transit-oriented policies to relieve traffic congestion and to make transportation systems more efficient. Although these policies have been implemented for long period, outcomes have not been significant. Since 1996, the Seoul metropolitan government has constructed 125km of urban railways. Transit share, however, decreased 1.6% while auto share increased 5.1%. One of the main reasons of increased auto share is that users are more sensitive for automobile’s attractiveness than for travel time and cost. This study aims to suggest reasonable method of analyzing travelers empirical cognition on travel mode choice. The analysis frame is developed by Service Quality(SERVQUAL) model. Service quality is divided into expected value and perceived value, and evaluated by its difference. The result of SERVQUAL indicates that the reliability have no difference between modes. But the convenience service quality of autos is 1.5 times greater than transit. Various policy alternatives for modal shift have been made to relieve transportation problems. But the auto’s mode share has increased mainly due to ignorance in policies about the gap of service quality. In order to improve transportation systems in metropolitan areas, it is strongly recommended that the gap of service quality between modes should be surveyed and analyzed in more detail.

Citation status

* References for papers published after 2023 are currently being built.