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Component

The analysis of air-passengers' choices of departure airport in multi-airport regions is a crucial component of transportation planning in many large metropolitan areas, and has been the topic of an increasing number of studies over recent years. In this paper, we advance the state of the art of modeling in this area of research by making use of a Cross-Nested Logit (CNL) structure that allows for the joint representation of inter-alternative correlation along the three choice dimensions of airport, airline and access-mode. The analysis uses data collected in the Greater London area, which arguably has the highest levels of inter-airport competition of any multi-airport region; the authors of this paper are not aware of any previous effort to jointly analyze the choice of airport, airline and access-mode in this area. The results of the analysis reveal significant influences on passenger behavior by access-time, access-cost, flight-frequency and flight-time. A structural comparison of the different models shows that the cross-nested structure offers significant improvements over simple Nested Logit (NL) models, which in turn outperform the Multinomial Logit (MNL) model used as the base model.

01020180

06-2428

English

32p

2006

Transportation Research Board 85th Annual Meeting

CD-ROM

Figures (3) ; References (19) ; Tables (9)

Airlines; Airport access; Airports; Choice models; Logits; Passengers; Travel demand

London (England)

Aviation; Passenger Transportation; Terminals and Facilities

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2006 Paper #06-2428

BTRIS, TRIS, TRB

Mar 3 2006 10:59AM