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A questionnaire was developed for use with a large ~pte of passengers travelling in British Rail stock on a cross-section of main line rou~serviced by London Midland Region. The questionnaire was distribu~ to a stratified random sample of 1500 passengers -covering both male and female travellers in five different carriage types. The aim of the study was to determine the improvements passengers would most like to see in existing carriage design, and generally what they felt about the quality of their environment. The questionnaire included sections covering personal and travel details, a check list of conceivable improvements, and the use of the semantic differential technique for obtaining passengers' impressions and perceptions. The findings allowed comparisons to be made between the different carriage interiors and resulted in recommendations for the possible modification of certain carriage designs. With the introduction of newly designed rolling stock into the British Rail Inter-City network, older main-line carriages are redeployed onto secondary routes. At this stage there is an opportunity to modify the older carriages in readiness for their new role. With this in mind, Brit

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Author

Andrew West; Frances Ramagge; Jennifer West; Heather Jones

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier Ltd.; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0003-6870)

Published

1973

Language

EN

Field

Psychology (Social Sciences)