An approach to achieve design recommendations for interior elements of urban railway transport with regard to user perception of semantic dimensions

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Turhan, Mehmet

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Although, the literature reveals that coach interior designs have been emphasized as an important factor determining their competitiveness in the market and the quality of an interior design can be effectively improved by using information about passenger expectations, few practical studies exist to assess the urban railway transport interiors from the passengers’ perspective. Consequently, designers lack reliable criteria to guide their decisions which would satisfy users. In this study, it is intended to develop a procedure to create interior design alternatives of urban railway transportation vehicles with regard to subjective needs and preferences of users. In order to acquire design criteria and recommendations for such interiors, the design alternatives are then evaluated quantitatively through the medium of semantic assessment tools. The thesis is supported with the arguments collected from literature and with the data from three empirical studies.

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Transportation and Communication.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/17793

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M. Turhan, “An approach to achieve design recommendations for interior elements of urban railway transport with regard to user perception of semantic dimensions,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2008.