Dienel / Schiefelbusch Public Transport and its Users

The Passenger's Perspective in Planning and Customer Care
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-351-90757-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 330 Seiten

Reihe: Transport and Society

Public transport is essential to the quality of life of its passengers, both as a means to move around but also to achieve a sustainable environment. However, the passenger's position as a customer is weakened by the dominance of monopolies, regulation and political influence in our public transport systems. This book is one of the first to examine strategies for the representation of user interests in public transport from a variety of perspectives. The authors review approaches to integrating the passengers' views in the planning process and to protecting their interests in operations and customer care across a range of European countries, including Austria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and EU policies. The book presents the conclusions of this research and examples of good practice. In this respect it will provide useful guidance for policy makers, stakeholder organizations and planners, as well as transport researchers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dienel, Hans-Liudger

Schiefelbusch, Martin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Innen-, Bildungs- und Bevölkerungspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: Preface; Introduction, Hans-Liudger Dienel; Passenger interests in public transport; Consumer protection in public transport; Customer perspective in quality management; User participation in public transport; Planning public transport, customer representation and passenger rights in Europe; The future of passengers' rights and passenger participation; Bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Martin Schiefelbusch is Area Manager for Mobility Research at the nexus Institute for Cooperation Management and Interdisciplinary Research, Germany and Dr Hans-Liudger Dienel is Managing Director at the nexus Institute for Cooperation Management and Interdisciplinary Research, Germany