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The constant development and improvement of services in order to achieve sustainability of passenger transport is an imperative on the one hand and a challenge on the other. This is highly evident in persons with disabilities who are faced with many physical and social barriers related to access to rail transport. In this paper, a new model for the selection of criteria for the quality of passenger service in rail transport, from the perspective of persons with disabilities as the main category of passengers, has been created. The survey has covered 168 criteria classified in several groups and the entire territory of Serbia. In order to select the most important criteria, a new model that implies the integration of Full Consistency Method and a Rough Power Heronian aggregator has been developed. The development of a new aggregator enables more accurate decision-making in the process of group decision-making. The results obtained in this paper show that the most important criteria according to importance are Accessibility, Availability, Security, Time, Customer care, Information, Comfort, Environmental impact. Based on the criteria obtained for the service quality of rail transport for persons with disabilities, railway carriers will be able to change and improve the existing services, content, characteristics, equipment of railway stations and vehicles.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/sym11080992","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,8,2]],"date-time":"2019-08-02T11:58:16Z","timestamp":1564747096000},"page":"992","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":17,"title":["A New Model for Defining the Criteria of Service Quality in Rail Transport: The Full Consistency Method Based on a Rough Power Heronian Aggregator"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"given":"Dragan","family":"\u0110or\u0111evi\u0107","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"MC Transport Design and Simulation, Kadinja\u010da 44a, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7972-3292","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Gordan","family":"Stoji\u0107","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Trg Dositeja Obradovi\u0107a 6, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4452-5768","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"\u017deljko","family":"Stevi\u0107","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Transport and Traffic Engineering Doboj, University of East Sarajevo, Vojvode Mi\u0161i\u0107a 52, 74000 Doboj, Bosnia and Herzegovina"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8522-1942","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Dragan","family":"Pamu\u010dar","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Logistics, University of Defence in Belgrade, Pavla Juri\u0161i\u0107a Sturma 33, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5150-4477","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ana","family":"Vulevi\u0107","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department for Architecture and Urban Planning, Institute of transportation CIP, Nemanjina 6\/IV, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia"}]},{"given":"Vesna","family":"Mi\u0161i\u0107","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Transport and Traffic Engineering Doboj, University of East Sarajevo, Vojvode Mi\u0161i\u0107a 52, 74000 Doboj, Bosnia and Herzegovina"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,8,2]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Mattson, J., Hough, J., and Abeson, A. 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