Case Study

Assessing Marketing Collateral Results in New Service Proposal

Issue:

City light rail and bus transit company sought to gather research on respondents’ reactions to two information and marketing pieces.

Approach:

Conducted focus groups with client’s riders to test the revised version of the system map and one-on-one interviews with tourists, hotel concierges and a focus group with suburbanites who rarely rode transit.

  • Evaluated sightseeing guide for metro area.

      Results:

      Generated a number of new product ideas.

      • Yielded many valuable suggestions for improving the system map and the metro sightseeing guide.
      • Shed light on fundamental issues with important implications for increasing ridership.