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Title:

THE PHILADELPHIA AIRPORT ORIGIN - DESTINATION SURVEY-A STATISTICAL ANALYSIS

Accession Number:

00239306

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

PHILADELPHIA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT IS EXPECTING A THREEFOLD INCREASE IN AIR TRAVELERS BETWEEN 1967 AND 1992. TO PROPERLY PLAN FOR SUCH GROWTH, A COMPREHENSIVE SURVEY OF AIRPORT ACTIVITY WAS COMPLETED IN NOVEMBER 1967. THIS ANALYSIS INCLUDED AN IN-FLIGHT SURVEY CONDUCTED DURING A 5- DAY PERIOD, IN WHICH OVER 2,200 COMMERCIAL FLIGHTS ARRIVED AT OR DEPARTED FROM PHILADELPHIA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. THESE WERE COMPRISED OF 231 INBOUND FLIGHTS AND 229 OUTBOUND FLIGHTS, EACH OF WHICH WAS SURVEYED ONCE DURING THE 5-DAY PERIOD. TRIP DATA DEVELOPED THROUGH THE IN-FLIGHT SURVEY ENABLED TESTS TO BE PERFORMED TO DETERMINE WHETHER THE NUMBER OF TRIPS MADE BY AIR TRAVELERS FROM LOCATIONS WITHIN THE METROPOLITAN AREA TO THE AIRPORT EQUAL THE NUMBER OF TRIPS MADE FROM THE AIRPORT ON AN AVERAGE WEEKDAY. FIVE STATISTICAL TESTS WERE CONDUCTED. EACH WAS PERFORMED FOR THE PHILADELPHIA METROPOLITAN AREA, THE INDIVIDUAL COUNTIES THAT COMPRISE THE METROPOLITAN AREA, AND THE PHILADELPHIA CBD. RESULTS OF THESE TESTS INDICATE THAT A ONE-DIRECTIONAL SURVEY, PROPERLY DESIGNED AND CONDUCTED, ACCURATELY MIRRORS THE REVERSE DIRECTION OF TRAVEL. IN THIS WAY, ONE-HALF THE IN-FLIGHT SURVEY EFFORT CAN BE ELIMINATED AND SURVEY COSTS REDUCED WITHOUT LESSENING THE SURVEY ACCURACY. A COMPARISON OF THE TRIP INFORMATION DEVELOPED BY THE IN-FLIGHT SURVEY WITH COMPARABLE DATA PRODUCED THROUGH A HOME-INTERVIEW SURVEY INDICATES THAT THE LATTER TECHNIQUE CANNOT BE USED TO FULLY RECONSTRUCT GROUND TRAVEL GENERATED BY AIRPORTS BECAUSE OF THE ABSENCE OF DATA ON NONRESIDENT AIR TRAVELERS. ANY ANALYSIS OF AIRPORT GROUND TRAVEL BASED ON THE DATA DRAWN FROM HOME-INTERVIEW SURVEYS SHOULD BE SUPPLEMENTED BY AN EXAMINATION OF NONRESIDENT AIR PASSENGER TRAFFIC. /AUTHOR/

Supplemental Notes:

Paper sponsored by Committee on Passenger Transportation Economics. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.

Monograph Accession #:

00044065

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Corradino, Joseph C

Pagination:

pp 30-36

Publication Date:

1970

Serial:

Highway Research Record

Issue Number: 330
Publisher: Highway Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Photos (1) ; References (2) ; Tables (3)

Geographic Terms:

Philadelphia (Pennsylvania)

Subject Areas:

Administration and Management; Aviation; Highways; Terminals and Facilities

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Apr 25 1971 12:00AM

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