Air Demand in a Dynamic Competitive Context with the Automobile (2019) / Chapter Skim
Currently Skimming:
Pages 35-44
The Chapter Skim interface presents what we've algorithmically identified as the most significant single chunk of text within every page in the chapter.
Select key terms on the right to highlight them within pages of the chapter.
From page 35... ...
35 Introduction This chapter presents some important findings about how Americans make the decision between taking a long-distance trip by air and taking a long-distance trip by car. In fact, the choice of the air mode is relatively rare for most Americans.
|
From page 36... ...
36 Air Demand in a Dynamic Competitive Context with the Automobile of attitudes and behavior by different market segments. It should be noted that this section does not include an analysis of the service characteristics of different airports in the survey.
|
From page 37... ...
Factors That Influence the Choice of Mode for the Long-Distance Trip 37 The Supply Side: How Costs Are Influenced by Distance Costs Experienced for Each Mode A valuable summary of transportation statistics, Passenger Travel Facts and Figures, provides details about long-term travel (BTS 2016)
|
From page 38... ...
38 Air Demand in a Dynamic Competitive Context with the Automobile Importantly, the price per mile paid by the consumer varies substantially by the length of the trip for the four market areas covered in the survey. As trip length increases, the price per mile offered by the airlines becomes more of a bargain for the customer.
|
From page 39... ...
Factors That Influence the Choice of Mode for the Long-Distance Trip 39 research team used a fully allocated cost of $0.54 per mile, which is consistent with the automobile costs for travel expenses allowed by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
|
From page 40... ...
40 Air Demand in a Dynamic Competitive Context with the Automobile individual traveler would have a greater incentive to choose a more cost-effective mode. Despite difficulties associated with the implementation of such a system, analysts writing about autonomous vehicles often assume that vehicle ownership would be collective and that fees would be solely based on a per-mile basis.
|
From page 41... ...
Factors That Influence the Choice of Mode for the Long-Distance Trip 41 higher air mode shares. The higher income curve seems to flatten in the higher distance categories, at which point approximately 10% of travelers continue to choose to travel by car.
|
From page 42... ...
42 Air Demand in a Dynamic Competitive Context with the Automobile Travel Party Size and Trip Distance How does travel party size affect mode share at different trip distances? In the 2017 ACR Project 03-40 survey, the average travel party size was 2.3.
|
From page 43... ...
Factors That Influence the Choice of Mode for the Long-Distance Trip 43 short-distance trips. Among those who stated that they did not need a car, mode share for car continued to decrease as distance increased, up until a trip distance of approximately 1,700 miles.
|
From page 44... ...
44 Air Demand in a Dynamic Competitive Context with the Automobile trips. For very long-distance trips (over 1,700 miles)
|
Key Terms
This material may be derived from roughly machine-read images, and so is provided only to facilitate research.
More
information on Chapter Skim is available.