The hedonic value of railways terminals. A quantitative analysis of the impact of stations quality on travellers behaviour

Transit services quality has long been recognized as an important factor in influencing travelers behaviour and terminals quality is certainly part of it. As a matter of fact a number of transit promotion policies explicitly based on qualitative factors and specifically high architectural standards are being adopted in designing new railways stations and several examples of remarkable architecture applied to railways stations can be found all round the world. In spite of this, the literature in transportation modelling has not yet analyzed the impact of the hedonic quality on travelers’ behaviour quantifying whether and by how much it increases their propensity to use rail services.