Search for dissertations about: "public transportation"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 140 swedish dissertations containing the words public transportation.
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1. Ease-of-Use in Public Transportation : A User Perspective on Information and Orientation Aspects
Abstract : This interdisciplinary thesis combines psychological and transportation planning knowledge. Three main questions are investigated: 1) What concepts and ideas do people have with regard to a public transportation system (cognitive user perspective)?; 2) What orientation and information factors within the public transportation system enhance Ease-of-Use and make it simpler and more efficient to use public transportation in metropolitan areas?; 3) How can Ease-of-Use of a public transportation route be measured? A combination of qualitative and quantitative methods was used. READ MORE
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2. Co-creation of Value in Public Transportation - A Quality Management Perspective
Abstract : Outsourcing service provision as a business strategy has become increasingly popular. This has resulted in new managerial challenges in terms of creating value for customers. The establishment of these inter-organisational relationships has resulted in additional actors, who perform a greater number of increasingly complex activities. READ MORE
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3. An infrastructure of freedom : Atlanta, race, and the struggle over public transportation in the capitalist city
Abstract : This thesis provides a multiscalar analysis of the production and struggle over the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA), the main transit system in metro Atlanta. It examines how the actions and visions of the state, capital, and transportation activists intersect to structure how and to what extent transit systems can be organized to realize their distinctive potential to allow urban residents to meet their basic mobility needs. READ MORE
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4. Co-creation of value in public transportation
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5. Critical Infrastructure at the Dawn of a Techno-Organizational Shift : Accountability and Public-Private Governance
Abstract : How public-private governance affects accountability for safety in the realm of critical infrastructure is the focus of this doctoral thesis. Case studies of previously under-researched crises and their cascading affects across infrastructures and governance systems, comparative analysis of public-private governance (PPG) of infrastructures such as space and urban rail junctions, and analysis of wider sets of policies and doctrine pertaining to critical infrastructures and their governance are presented. READ MORE