ACRP WebResource to Support Research into Air Traveler Choice Models

Air traveler airport choice and ground access mode choice models provide key analytical techniques used in a variety of airport planning studies.  Decisions involving billions of dollars of capital investment in infrastructure supporting airport ground transportation, such as rail links or automated people movers, and the implications of these projects for airport revenue, rest on the ability to forecast how air traveler ground access mode and airport choice decisions will change in response to these types of projects, as well as to changes in the user fees charged for different airport ground transportation services.  Yet often these analyses use inconsistent assumptions and modeling approaches and methods.  Having this data readily available will encourage researchers to explore improved model specifications by reducing the work involved in assembling the necessary data and will facilitate comparison of models developed in different studies by enabling those studies to base their models on consistent underlying data.  Research is needed to develop a repository of ground access-related datasets and to identify best practices in developing and applying mode choice models. The objective of this research is to develop an ACRP WebResource containing publicly available data sets for use by researchers to develop and explore improved airport ground access/egress mode choice and airport choice models.

• Record URL:
  http://apps.trb.org/cmsfeed/TRBNetProjectDisplay.asp?ProjectID=5402

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Proposed
• Funding: $350000
• Contract Numbers:

  Project 03-74

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Airport Cooperative Research Program

  Transportation Research Board
  500 Fifth Street, NW
  Washington, DC    20001

  Federal Aviation Administration

  800 Independence Avenue, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20591
• Project Managers:

  McDonald III, Edward

• Start Date: 20220815
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air travel; Airport access; Airport ground transportation; Airport planning; Best practices; Choice models; Mode choice
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01854714
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Transportation Research Board
• Contract Numbers: Project 03-74
• Files: TRB, RIP
• Created Date: Aug 16 2022 2:11PM