Abstract
The goal of this paper is to demonstrate the use of an innovative social media-based data source, Twitter, to evaluate transit rider satisfaction. Transit authorities have access to vast amounts of performance metrics that measure ridership, timeliness, efficiency, safety, cleanliness, and service, to name a few. These performance metrics, however, are generally one-sided; they represent the interests of the business and are not customer-based. This paper recognizes the limitations of standard performance metrics and attempts to gauge transit rider sentiments by measuring Twitter feeds. Sentiment analysis is used to classify a population of rider sentiments over a period of time. Conclusions are drawn from totals of positive and negative sentiments, normalized average sentiments, and the total number of Tweets collected over a time period.
DOI
http://doi.org/10.5038/2375-0901.16.2.2
Recommended Citation
Collins, Craig, et al.
2013.
A Novel Transit Rider Satisfaction Metric: Rider Sentiments Measured from Online Social Media Data.
Journal of Public Transportation, 16 (2): 21-45.
DOI: http://doi.org/10.5038/2375-0901.16.2.2
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/jpt/vol16/iss2/2
