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Given the government’s significant investment in the high-speed rail projects and their infrastructures, it will be important for decision makers to maintain oversight of the project and ensure it will be a competitive mode. This study evaluates the competition between the planned high-speed rail mode and current air transport based on the case of the Tehran-Isfahan route. First, the variables of ticket price, travel time, hospitality, and convenience were identified by reviewing past studies, and then the data required for developing the model in the software were collected using questionnaires. The survey was conducted from January 2015 to April 2015 in the Mehrabad airport of Tehran, and 437 surveyes were collected. The binomial logit model was applied to predict the probability of choosing each of the two modes. The results show that variables of travel time, ticket price, convenience, and hospitality competed to influence decisions; however, travel time is the most important variable in determining the share of each mode, and passengers’ are more sensitive to this variable than the others. In addition, long durations of trips, ticket prices, lack of food services, and highly packed arrangements of seats in high-speed rail decreased its utility versus air transport.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AR010 Standing Committee on Intercity Passenger Rail.

18-02068

English

12p

2018

Transportation Research Board 97th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

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Air transportation; Case studies; Competition; Customer satisfaction; High speed rail; Logits; Mode choice; Prices; Travel time

Isfahan (Iran); Tehran (Iran)

Aviation; Finance; Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Railroads

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2018 Paper #18-02068

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Jan 8 2018 10:30AM