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Public Transportation Market Share by Airport 77
Bus. In Denver, the Regional Transportation District (RTD) has adopted an aggressive
program of providing bus service to Denver airport. This service currently captures a 3.5% mar-
ket share of airline passengers. The Denver RTD SkyRide Service is unique because it provides
direct service to several major activity centers, not just to the CBD. The transit agency currently
operates five routes providing transit access to the new airport. The SkyRide Service is operated
to serve the work schedule of airport employees, with early-morning and late-night service.
Toward the airport, service is operated from 3:20 a.m. to various hours ranging from 8:20 p.m.
to midnight, depending on the route. From the airport, the service leaves generally between
6 a.m. and 1 a.m. The full fare for a one-way ticket is $8. The service attracts about 3,900 trav-
elers per day.
Los Angeles (13% Market Share)
Market Share
U.S. Rank Airport Total Rail Bus/Van
10 Los Angeles International 13% 0% 13%
Airport
SOURCE: MarketSense (19)
The Airport. Los Angeles International Airport is located about 19 miles from the center of
Los Angeles. The airport served about 61.5 MAP in 2005; of these, some 16.4 million were orig-
inating passengers. Under conditions of no highway congestion, the driving time from the
airport to downtown is 22 minutes. The airport currently attracts about 2.1 million travelers per
year who use public, high-occupancy modes to the airport.
Connections at the Airport. Four public transportation agencies serve the airport. Los
Angeles International Airport is designed as a series of terminals on a loop road around a central
parking garage facility. All public transportation services must collect or distribute their passen-
gers on this loop road.
Rail. A free shuttle connects to the Aviation Metro Rail Station. The mode share to the adja-
cent rail service is less than 1/2 of 1%.
Bus. To Los Angeles International Airport, LAWA operates an express bus route, called the
Van Nuys FlyAway. In 1998, the Van Nuys FlyAway attracted 717,900 airline passengers. The
Van Nuys terminal is about 21 miles from the airport, and service takes about 1 hour. Service is
similar in scope to the Logan Express service in Boston, with 30-minute headways all day, except
in the morning peak period, when headways are 15 minutes. The Los Angeles service offers
1-hour headways after 1:30 a.m. The service operates more than 2,000 spaces at the Van Nuys
terminal location.
LAWA attempted a second operation, considerably closer to the airport, in West Los Ange-
les. After a 3-year trial, the facility was closed because of low ridership. Airport staff has
suggested that the facility was too close to the airport to attract private-automobile users to
the service.
Since March 2006, the Los Angeles airport has been operating a new FlyAway service between
the airport and the Union Station in downtown Los Angeles. This service operates every half
hour between 5 a.m. and 1 a.m., and every hour during the late night. At Union Station, the
traveler can connect to regional transit services, downtown shuttle buses, and intercity Amtrak
services.
Both the original Van Nuys FlyAway location and the new Union Station location now offer
baggage check-in services provided by Baggage Airline Guest Services, Inc. The charge is $5 per
