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Title:

Modeling Airport Employees Commuting Mode Choice

Accession Number:

01337608

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

Ground access to airports is currently dominated by the private car, and given the projected long term growth of air passenger traffic over the forthcoming decades, there is growing concern that this is likely to become an issue in terms of congestion, environmental and social implications. Related research in the field of airport ground access has focused mainly on air passengers. Nevertheless, airport employees represent a particular challenge for airports due to their dependency on the private car in conjunction with their specific characteristics and nature of their employment. In view of the above, the present paper proposes a discrete choice Multinomial Logit model for Airport Employees' commuting mode choice, based on data obtained through a combination of revealed and stated preference surveys carried out at the Athens International Airport. The main conclusions are, as expected, that total travel time, cost and personal income are the most important attributes affecting employees’ access mode choice, as well as the individual perceptions of a specific mode, that is, comfort and easy access to the bus stop/rail station. Thus, a metro/suburban rail service with competitive fares and travel times could attract an important share from the private car. To this end, the proposed model can provide source information to support any airport ground access strategy aiming at shifting employees’ preferences to more sustainable travel modes, which are becoming almost mandatory for airports, in line with the current strong trend towards “greening” transportation policies and strategies.

Monograph Accession #:

01329018

Report/Paper Numbers:

11-0347

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

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Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Tsamboulas, Dimitrios A
Evmorfopoulos, Argirios P
Moraiti, Panayota

Pagination:

15p

Publication Date:

2011

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 90th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2011-1-23 to 2011-1-27
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

DVD

Features:

Figures (1) ; References (29) ; Tables (4)

Uncontrolled Terms:

Discrete choice models

Geographic Terms:

Athens (Greece)

Subject Areas:

Aviation; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2011 Paper #11-0347

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Feb 17 2011 5:24PM