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Service Quality Attributes Affecting The Satisfaction Of Railway Passengers Of Selective Route In Southwestern Part Of Bangladesh

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Khan Rubayet RAHAMAN () (Urban and Rural Planning Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna 9208, Bangladesh)
Md. Arifur RAHAMAN () (Urban and Rural Planning Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna 9208, Bangladesh)
Abstract

With increased pace of urbanization and economic growth, attraction and dependency between different linking regions has also increased. Transportation have performed very crucial roles from very early accelerating the sharing of economic and development benefit of connecting spatial regions. Railway has been proved as a potential sector for drawing economic and development benefits for various countries. But less emphasis have been given in improvement of railway sector mainly in railway service in Bangladesh compare with road and which cause failed to draw proper economic benefit from the sector. This study has aimed to focus on the railway transportation sector and to develop a model defining the relationship between overall satisfaction and service quality attributes in a selective route from Khulna to Rajshahi in southwestern zone of Bangladesh so that it can reinforce further improvement process. Findings show that, overall service satisfaction depend on eight distinct service quality attributes. It implies the service with worst situation, overall satisfaction of service and need for priority improvement to support further orientation, addition and betterment of service to draw maximum economic and development benefit for those linking regions.

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Article provided by Research Centre in Public Administration and Public Services, Bucharest, Romania in its journal Theoretical and Empirical Researches in Urban Management.

Volume (Year): 4 (2009)
Issue (Month): 3(12) (August)
Pages: 115-125
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Keywords: Urbanization; Economic growth; Attraction; Linking region; Overall satisfaction;

Find related papers by JEL classification:
R41 - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics - - Transportation Systems - - - Transportation: Demand, Supply, and Congestion
R11 - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Analysis of Growth, Development, and Changes
L91 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Transportation and Utilities - - - Transportation: General

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