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This paper describes how the majority of studies of air-travel choice behavior make use of Revealed Preference (RP) data, generally in the form of survey data collected from departing passengers. While the use of RP data has certain philosophical advantages over the use of Stated Preference (SP) data, major issues arise because of the often low quality of the data relating to the unchosen alternatives, in terms of explanatory variables as well as availability. As such, studies using RP survey data often fail to recover a meaningful fare coefficient, and are generally not able to offer a treatment of the effects of airline allegiance. This paper makes use of SP data for airport and airline choice collected in the U.S. in 2001. The analysis retrieves significant effects relating to factors such as airfare, access-time, flight-time and airline and airport allegiance, illustrating the advantages of SP data in this context. Additionally, the analysis explores the use of non-linear transforms of the explanatory variables, as well as the treatment of continuous variations in choice behavior across respondents.

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06-2374

English

25p

2006

Transportation Research Board 85th Annual Meeting

CD-ROM

References (15) ; Tables (5)

Air transportation; Air travel; Arrivals and departures; Data collection; Flight time; Passenger transportation; Passengers; Revealed preferences; Travel behavior

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Aviation; Passenger Transportation; Society

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2006 Paper #06-2374

TRIS, TRB

Mar 3 2006 10:58AM