Title: Modelling Air-Passenger Surface Mode Access Using Revealed Preference Data: A Case Study in Newcastle upon Tyne
Abstract: This paper describes how contemporary studies regarding mode choice to airports has been intuitively pursued using disaggregate demand analysis, which is based on the theory of utility maximization. Rising competition and the precarious financial situation of some of the world’s leading airlines have led to a preoccupation with developing models which tend to explain passengers’ choice of airport. In this study, passengers’ mode choices are solicited by conducting a revealed preference (RP) survey on a cross section of local residents. A multinomial logit approach is adopted considering its suitability in this study where the choice set consists: car (long stay parking), car (short stay parking), taxi, metro and bus. Newcastle International Airport, which is located in the northeast of England, is chosen as the case study airport. The model developed explains passengers’ mode choices in terms of access time, household car ownership, the size of the access group and luggage count. A market segmentation approach further allows sub-models to be developed for the following homogeneous groups of air-passengers: business passengers, leisure-passengers, passengers on domestic flights, passengers to international destinations, low-income passengers and high-income passengers. The addition of an extra automobile in a household is found to increase the odds of using car (long stay parking) to bus by a factor of approximately six. Business travelers are more sensitive to access time than passengers traveling mainly for leisure. Passengers to domestic destinations are found to be more sensitive to access time compared to international-bound passengers and finally, high income earning air travelers value time more than low income earning passengers.
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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