Integration of Ground Access to Airports in Measures of Inter-urban Accessibility

This report primarily focuses on the spatial variation of air passenger trip times through the dual transport modes, ground access to and flight routing between airports, in an empirical data-driven assessment. Expected journeys from individual census tracts in the contiguous 48 states (and D.C.) are derived by connecting each tract with its neighboring airports at which actual air passenger trips are observed, then the ground access and flight time of each observed air trip is measured, using various empirical sources. Since the locally accessible airports vary across communities, a set of accessible airports is given for each community, which is in turn a base to define the community’s local travel market with airports competing there. A community-specific relative journey time ratio is designed to evaluate the competitiveness of their nearest airport against other local competitors. The estimation allows us to explore potentially vulnerable regions by strong airport competition regarding the leakage problem [when travelers avoid using the local airport in their regions, and use other (out-of-region) airports] to take advantage of lower fares and more convenient airline services, which in the past literature has been largely investigated for multiple airport regions (MARs) within limited geographical boundaries through surveys. This effort is expected to suggest future research sites for investigating passenger travel behavior and airport competition even among local airports.

• Record URL:
  http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/nextrans/assets/pdfs/119OSUY2.1_Summary%20and%20Final%20Technical%20Report.pdf
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• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/35518
• Supplemental Notes:
  • This research was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation, University Transportation Centers Program.
• Corporate Authors:

  Ohio State University, Columbus

  Department of Geography, 1036 Derby Hall
  Columbus, OH  United States  43210-1361

  NEXTRANS

  Purdue University
  3000 Kent Avenue
  Lafayette, IN  United States  47906-1075

  Research and Innovative Technology Administration

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  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • O'Kelly, Morton E
  • Park, Yongha
• Publication Date: 2017-7-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Edition: Final Report, Technical Summary
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 12p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accessibility; Airport access; Airports; Competition; Fares; Flight time; Intercity transportation; Routing; Travel behavior; Travel time
• Uncontrolled Terms: Airline flights; Multiple airport regions
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Economics; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01653365
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: NEXTRANS Project No. 119OSUY2.1
• Contract Numbers: DTRT12-G-UTC05
• Files: UTC, NTL, TRIS, RITA, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Dec 11 2017 8:08PM