Customer perception towards traditional taxi services in Klang valley / Noor Amirah Ab Rahman, Nur Izzati Syazwani Ghazali and Wan Nor Syazleen Wan Ismail

Taxi services in Malaysia have negative image with the passengers because of poor conduct by local taxi drivers such as refusing to use taximeters, fleecing passengers, rudeness with customers, choosing preferred destinations and driving poor maintained taxis. Malaysian taxi services had severely ma...

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Main Authors: Ab Rahman, Noor Amirah, Ghazali, Nur Izzati Syazwani, Wan Ismail, Wan Nor Syazleen
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2019
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Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/31254/1/31254.pdf
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author Ab Rahman, Noor Amirah
Ghazali, Nur Izzati Syazwani
Wan Ismail, Wan Nor Syazleen
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description Taxi services in Malaysia have negative image with the passengers because of poor conduct by local taxi drivers such as refusing to use taximeters, fleecing passengers, rudeness with customers, choosing preferred destinations and driving poor maintained taxis. Malaysian taxi services had severely marred our country’s reputation by being ranked as the worst taxi service around the globe. This kind of news can give a bad perception to potential customers as well. In addition, the entering of e-hailing industry in Malaysia also build a big competition to traditional taxi industry in Malaysia. In this research, SERVQUAL Model such as tangibility, reliability, responsiveness, assurance and empathy can influence customer perception towards traditional taxi services in Klang Valley. A good taxi service will give a good perception towards customer, thus, can enhance customer loyalty. This research examines the customer perception towards traditional taxi services in Klang Valley to see the relevance of taxi services nowadays. This study is based on data obtained from 250 survey questionnaires through self-administered that polled customer perception towards the service quality of the traditional taxi services. Finding of this study shows that tangibility, reliability, responsiveness and empathy have significant influence on customer perception towards traditional taxi services in Klang Valley. However, this study found that assurance has no significant influence on customer perception. The results of this study also suggested that a SWOT TOWS strategic approach is needed for the traditional taxi to enhance the customer perception. Recommendations are made to improve the traditional taxi services. This finding can help practitioners to understand how tangibility, reliability, responsiveness, assurance and empathy of traditional taxi services can be further improved to enhance customer perception. It is hoped that this study can contribute to the improvement of traditional taxi services in Klang Valley.
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spelling oai:ir.uitm.edu.my:312542022-02-16T04:04:11Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/31254/ Customer perception towards traditional taxi services in Klang valley / Noor Amirah Ab Rahman, Nur Izzati Syazwani Ghazali and Wan Nor Syazleen Wan Ismail Ab Rahman, Noor Amirah Ghazali, Nur Izzati Syazwani Wan Ismail, Wan Nor Syazleen Consumer satisfaction Customer services. Customer relations Taxi services in Malaysia have negative image with the passengers because of poor conduct by local taxi drivers such as refusing to use taximeters, fleecing passengers, rudeness with customers, choosing preferred destinations and driving poor maintained taxis. Malaysian taxi services had severely marred our country’s reputation by being ranked as the worst taxi service around the globe. This kind of news can give a bad perception to potential customers as well. In addition, the entering of e-hailing industry in Malaysia also build a big competition to traditional taxi industry in Malaysia. In this research, SERVQUAL Model such as tangibility, reliability, responsiveness, assurance and empathy can influence customer perception towards traditional taxi services in Klang Valley. A good taxi service will give a good perception towards customer, thus, can enhance customer loyalty. This research examines the customer perception towards traditional taxi services in Klang Valley to see the relevance of taxi services nowadays. This study is based on data obtained from 250 survey questionnaires through self-administered that polled customer perception towards the service quality of the traditional taxi services. Finding of this study shows that tangibility, reliability, responsiveness and empathy have significant influence on customer perception towards traditional taxi services in Klang Valley. However, this study found that assurance has no significant influence on customer perception. The results of this study also suggested that a SWOT TOWS strategic approach is needed for the traditional taxi to enhance the customer perception. Recommendations are made to improve the traditional taxi services. This finding can help practitioners to understand how tangibility, reliability, responsiveness, assurance and empathy of traditional taxi services can be further improved to enhance customer perception. It is hoped that this study can contribute to the improvement of traditional taxi services in Klang Valley. 2019-07 Thesis NonPeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/31254/1/31254.pdf Customer perception towards traditional taxi services in Klang valley / Noor Amirah Ab Rahman, Nur Izzati Syazwani Ghazali and Wan Nor Syazleen Wan Ismail. (2019) Masters thesis, thesis, Universiti Teknologi MARA Shah Alam. <http://terminalib.uitm.edu.my/31254.pdf>
spellingShingle Consumer satisfaction
Customer services. Customer relations
Ab Rahman, Noor Amirah
Ghazali, Nur Izzati Syazwani
Wan Ismail, Wan Nor Syazleen
Customer perception towards traditional taxi services in Klang valley / Noor Amirah Ab Rahman, Nur Izzati Syazwani Ghazali and Wan Nor Syazleen Wan Ismail
title Customer perception towards traditional taxi services in Klang valley / Noor Amirah Ab Rahman, Nur Izzati Syazwani Ghazali and Wan Nor Syazleen Wan Ismail
title_full Customer perception towards traditional taxi services in Klang valley / Noor Amirah Ab Rahman, Nur Izzati Syazwani Ghazali and Wan Nor Syazleen Wan Ismail
title_fullStr Customer perception towards traditional taxi services in Klang valley / Noor Amirah Ab Rahman, Nur Izzati Syazwani Ghazali and Wan Nor Syazleen Wan Ismail
title_full_unstemmed Customer perception towards traditional taxi services in Klang valley / Noor Amirah Ab Rahman, Nur Izzati Syazwani Ghazali and Wan Nor Syazleen Wan Ismail
title_short Customer perception towards traditional taxi services in Klang valley / Noor Amirah Ab Rahman, Nur Izzati Syazwani Ghazali and Wan Nor Syazleen Wan Ismail
title_sort customer perception towards traditional taxi services in klang valley noor amirah ab rahman nur izzati syazwani ghazali and wan nor syazleen wan ismail
topic Consumer satisfaction
Customer services. Customer relations
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/31254/1/31254.pdf
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