Ride-Hailing Preferences for First- and Last-Mile Connectivity at Intercity Transit Hubs
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Comments and Suggestions for AuthorsThe authors report about a survey of ride-hailing preferences for first- and last-mile trips at intercity transit hubs.
1. Please describe how you set up the survey. Did you do a pilot study first to check the questions? Did you base your survey on other surveys? It would be useful for other authors if you would state what you learned from reading other papers in order to improve your survey. Also, please state if you have verified the survey in any way.
2. Please add a copy of the survey to the paper. To allow others to use this survey as a base for their own.
3. Please also add some research questions or hypotheses you tested in your study. These research questions should be derived from a thorough literature review. This literature review should highlight the gap in the research you are addressing.
4. I would maybe add the study regions to the title. However, you state this quite prominent in the abstract, this might be enough.
5. You could add to the literature or to the methods more details on how the Seemingly Unrelated Regression has been used in other studies. You mention that they have been used before, but you don't really mention how they have been used or the goal/settings of these papers.
6. How did you implement these? Did you use Python, Excel, etc.
7. Please add to the literature a table of all papers that have conducted a survey to assess a similar research question.
8. Please structure your discussion section with sub headings and compare how your study results fit with the results derived from similar surveys in other regions of the world.
9. Figure 2 is not the way Likert scales are usually represented in figures. See this figure for reference: https://ppcexpo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/likert-scale-frequency-.jpg.
10. I know the meaning of * and ** is obvious in your figures. However, I think the proofreader will ask you later to specify their meaning in the table header or underneath the table. You might want to colour these cells in a different colour to highlight these. However, I am not sure whether you are allowed to do it.
Author Response
Dear Reviewer,
Thank you for your valuable and insightful feedback on our manuscript. We have taken all your suggestions into careful consideration and have made significant revisions to our manuscript accordingly. Please check the attached file. Thank you very much and we hope that our responses meet your expectations.
Best regards,
Authors
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Reviewer 2 Report
Comments and Suggestions for AuthorsTitle: The title of the is too long. Please try to shorten it, if it is possible.
Abstract: The abstract is missing the method used as well as the limitations of the study.
1. Introduction: The introduction is very well written, giving the reader a clear picture and background of the ride-hailing service (RHS) and first- and last-mile (FLM) issues.
2. Literature review: The literature review is short. Since there are a lot of papers dealing with this issue I recommend that authors extend the literature reviews section.
3. Method and Data:
Seemingly Unrelated Regression (SUR) is well explained.
Data Collection performed by ten undergraduate students who are trained and monitored by researchers is a good method of collecting data.
4. Method and Data:
Line 211 “4. Method and Data “ Title of Heeding 4 is the same as Heading 3. Please change Heading number 4.
Please explain why you did not include “purpose of travel” and “Length of travel” as a variable in Table 1 and in the model.
5. Conclusions and Recommendations:
The conclusions and Recommendations are very well written and contain all main findings of this study.
Author Response
Dear Reviewer
Thank you for your valuable and insightful feedback on our manuscript. We have taken all your suggestions into careful consideration and have made significant revisions to our manuscript accordingly. Please check the attached file. Thank you very much and we hope that our responses meet your expectations.
Best regards,
Authors
Author Response File: Author Response.docx
Reviewer 3 Report
Comments and Suggestions for AuthorsPlease see attachement
Comments for author File: 
Comments.pdf
Minor editing and grammatical checks are needed
Author Response
Dear Reviewer
Thank you for your valuable and insightful feedback on our manuscript. We have taken all your suggestions into careful consideration and have made significant revisions to our manuscript accordingly. Please check the attached file. Thank you very much and we hope that our responses meet your expectations.
Best regards,
Authors
Author Response File: Author Response.docx
