The Determinants of Service Quality and Customer Satisfaction in Malaysian E-Hailing Services

Abstract

This paper seeks to discuss the role of service quality (perceived ease of use, security, and perceived value) in affecting customer satisfaction among Malaysia e-hailing users. E-hailing services have become almost inseparable in today's transportation sector. This growth is stimulated by a variety of factors including social distancing, affordable price, trending lifestyle, more usage of e-hailing service capabilities, and robust business strategies by e-hailing providers. This paper suggests that all the service quality variables namely perceived ease of use, security, and perceived value, have positive significant effect on customer satisfaction specifically among e-hailing users in Malaysia. Thus, companies are required to embrace the variables that, in turn, will enable them to develop effective and efficient plans that incorporate the criteria described to increase the level of customer satisfaction.

Towards better public transport services: Understanding service quality attributes of public transport in states of developing countries

“…Then the fourth factor is accessibility, represented by the frequency of services, availability of information operations, flexible waiting places, punctuality, waiting time, and easy access. Accessibility refers to people's ease of getting to and alighting the vehicle (Felina et al, 2022;Van Lierop, Badami, & El-Geneidy, 2018). The result of the factor analysis provides valuable information for PT providers and policymakers to focus on certain factors in improving the quality of service delivery to users.…”

“…There was an increase in service quality and user satisfaction studies of PT in the 1990s (Felina, Nur, & Abdul, 2022). PT studies have used various service quality attributes or models to measure users' satisfaction.…”