Modeling Mode Choice of Air Passengers’ Ground Access to Brisbane Airport

Abstract

Like other developed countries, Australia is experiencing considerable growth in air travel demand. This growth is putting tremendous pressure on airports to improve the capacity and level of service of access and egress modes. The main goal of this study was to develop a robust mode choice model for passengers’ access to airports, in the context of Brisbane, Australia. The novelty of this study includes (1) the use of recent techniques to combine passengers’ revealed and stated preferences for mode of access to airports and (2) the development of both traditional multinomial logit (MNL) as well as mixed logit (MXL) models using these data. The data were collected from 1,435 passengers through an online survey of both revealed and stated preferences, with the stated preferences pivoting on their most recent trip to Brisbane Airport. With these data, access mode choice models were estimated. MNL and MXL models were estimated that directly considered the effects of passenger mode choice inertia as well as novel passenger-specific characteristics. These factors had a large, statistically significant effect on the estimated models. The benefit of the MXL model was shown in the results, as the passengers’ value of time from the MXL model was A$105.15/h, which was strikingly lower than the MNL-estimated value of time. In addition, there were notably high direct elasticities for bus and shuttle with respect to travel time, and for car and taxi with respect to travel cost.

Multi-Objective Decision Method for Airport Landside Rapid Transit Network Design

“…It should be noted that there are a number of factors that may affect the airport access mode choice of the passengers (Gokasar and Gunay 2017 ). Some of the factors (e.g., travel time, cost, comfort, reliability) are specific to a given mode of transportation (Tam et al 2008 ; Alhussein 2011 ; Jou et al 2011 ; Akar 2013 ; Bao et al 2019 ; Pasha et al 2020 ); others (e.g., age, gender, income) are specific to the socioeconomic characteristics of travelers (Tam et al 2008 ; Gupta et al 2008 ; Alhussein 2011 ; Choo et al 2013 ). Given that the focus of this paper is the planning of the transit network, not the behavior of travelers, we only consider the trip characteristics of different transport modes when formulating the model.…”

AIMing for Equity in Aviation Accessibility: Development of the Aviation-accessibility Integrated Mobility (AIM) Metric

“…For individuals without access to an automobile, their accessibility is based on the accessibility through transit. While it is possible that a person without an automobile can choose to take ride-hail, ride-hailing modes are not preferred among low-income travelers who often rely more on transit or other lower-cost modes ( 40 , 41 ). Because of the greater cost sensitivities of taxis or nonavailability of private cars, lower-income travelers are more likely to take transit in ground access to the airport ( 30 ).…”

The Carbon Footprint of Airport Ground Access as Part of an Outbound Holiday Trip

“…There are also several papers that include surveys on airport access aimed at developing multinomial models to understand passenger choices. The contribution of Pasha [21] provides a model of transport mode choice for Brisbane airport. Moreover, interest in access to airports has been recognized within transport studies, and even the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine of the United States has published a report on worldwide access to airports [38] that provides a global review of the topic.…”

“…The issue of airport access has been analysed by Budd, Ison and Ryley [19], who observed that these trips depended heavily on private transport with the corresponding concerns regarding congestion and environmental impacts. Airport ground access has also been analysed from the point of view of transport mode choice [20,21]. Sustainability policies for airport access have been discussed [22], as well as estimations of the carbon dioxide emissions of ground access to Manchester Airport [23].…”