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Margareta Friman

Margareta Friman

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
54
Citations
11801
World Ranking
2158
National Ranking
24

Overview

Margareta Friman is affiliated with Karlstad University in Sweden and is an active researcher in the social sciences, with a strong emphasis on transportation-related fields. Their research spans social sciences broadly, with particular focus on transportation, automotive engineering, applied psychology, sociology and political science, and social psychology.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Transportation Planning and Optimization
  • Transportation and Mobility Innovations
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Sharing Economy and Platforms
  • Traffic and Road Safety
  • Health disparities and outcomes

Margareta Friman has published extensively in various scholarly venues, primarily focusing on transport and sustainability. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Sustainability
  • Journal of Transport & Health
  • Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment
  • Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services
  • Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice

Recent publications by Margareta Friman include:

  • Public Transport Quality, Safety, and Perceived Accessibility, 2020, Sustainability

Other relevant recent publications related to transport and consumer services co-authored with frequent collaborators include:

  • Unlocking potential: An integrated approach using PLS-SEM, NCA, and fsQCA for informed decision making, 2023, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services
  • Assessing travel satisfaction in public transport: A configurational approach, 2021, Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment
  • Necessary and sufficient conditions for attractive public Transport: Combined use of PLS-SEM and NCA, 2022, Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice
  • Therapeutic servicescapes: Restorative and relational resources in service settings, 2020, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services

Margareta Friman regularly collaborates with the following coauthors:

  • Lars E. Olsson
  • Katrin Lättman
  • Satoshi Fujii
  • Alexandre Sukhov
  • Yuichiro Kawabata

Their work integrates multidisciplinary perspectives within the social sciences to examine transportation systems and their impacts on urban environments, mobility behavior, and public health. This includes examining travel satisfaction, accessibility, safety, and optimization strategies to understand and improve public transport systems.

The span of fields and topics connected to Margareta Friman's research illustrates a focus on addressing complex social and behavioral aspects of transportation and mobility within urban and policy contexts.

Best Publications

  • Quality attributes of public transport that attract car users : A research review

    Lauren Redman;Margareta Friman;Tommy Gärling;Tommy Gärling;Terry Hartig

  • Happiness and Satisfaction with work commute

    Lars E. Olsson;Tommy Gärling;Tommy Gärling;Dick Ettema;Margareta Friman

  • Out-of-home activities, daily travel, and subjective well-being

    Dick Ettema;Tommy Gärling;Lars E. Olsson;Margareta Friman

  • Behaviour Theory and Soft Transport Policy Measures

    Sebastian Bamberg;Satoshi Fujii;Margareta Friman;Tommy Gärling

  • Satisfaction with travel and subjective well-being: Development and test of a measurement tool

    Dick Ettema;Tommy Gärling;Tommy Gärling;Lars Eriksson;Margareta Friman

  • An analysis of international business-to-business relationships based on the Commitment–Trust theory

    Margareta Friman;Tommy Gärling;Bruce Millett;Jan Mattsson

  • How in-vehicle activities affect work commuters’ satisfaction with public transport

    Dick Ettema;Margareta Friman;Tommy Gärling;Tommy Gärling;Lars E. Olsson

  • Fresh perspectives on customer experience

    Janet R. McColl-Kennedy;Anders Gustafsson;Elina Jaakkola;Phil Klaus

  • Subjective well-being related to satisfaction with daily travel

    Cecilia Jakobsson Bergstad;Amelie Gamble;Tommy Gärling;Olle Hagman

  • Perceived Satisfaction with Public Transport Service in Nine European Cities

    Markus Fellesson;Margareta Friman

  • Frequency of negative critical incidents and satisfaction with public transport services. II

    Margareta Friman;Tommy Gärling

  • Psychometric analysis of the satisfaction with travel scale

    Margareta Friman;Satoshi Fujii;Dick Ettema;Tommy Gärling;Tommy Gärling

  • Service Supply and Customer Satisfaction in Public Transportation: The Quality Paradox

    Margareta Friman;Markus Fellesson

  • How does travel affect emotional well-being and life satisfaction?

    Margareta Friman;Tommy Gärling;Tommy Gärling;Dick Ettema;Lars E. Olsson

  • The measurement of core affect: a Swedish self-report measure derived from the affect circumplex.

    Daniel Västfjäll;Margareta Friman;Tommy Gärling;Mendel Kleiner

  • A new approach to accessibility – Examining perceived accessibility in contrast to objectively measured accessibility in daily travel

    Katrin Lättman;Lars E. Olsson;Margareta Friman

  • Perceived Accessibility of Public Transport as a Potential Indicator of Social Inclusion

    Katrin Lättman;Margareta Friman;Lars E. Olsson

  • IMPLEMENTING QUALITY IMPROVEMENTS IN PUBLIC TRANSPORT

    Margareta Friman

  • Transport and child well-being: An integrative review

    Edward Owen Douglas Waygood;Margareta Friman;Lars E. Olsson;Ayako Taniguchi

  • Public Transport Quality, Safety, and Perceived Accessibility

    Margareta Friman;Katrin Lättman;Lars E. Olsson

  • Soft Transport Policy Measures: Gaps in Knowledge

    Jochen Richter;Margareta Friman;Tommy Gärling

  • FREQUENCY OF NEGATIVE CRITICAL INCIDENTS AND SATISFACTION WITH PUBLIC TRANSPORT SERVICES

    M Friman;T Gaerling

Frequent Co-Authors

Tommy Gärling
Tommy Gärling University of Gothenburg
Satoshi Fujii
Satoshi Fujii Kyoto University
Daniel Västfjäll
Daniel Västfjäll Linköping University
Terry Hartig
Terry Hartig Uppsala University
Torsten Norlander
Torsten Norlander Karolinska Institute

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