Abstract
This paper reports a study aimed to assess whether passengers would change the road transport -- whether individual transport (IT) or passenger bus transport (BT) -- for the rail transport to reach or leave the International Airport Tancredo Neves in Confins, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. It also sought to identify the passengers’ preference between the two transport modes. The study was built on two techniques: a questionnaire-based survey that approached 296 passengers, and a stated preference survey, which was answered by 223 of them. The results pointed out that most of the respondents were keen on changing the IT and BT for rail transport to reach and leave the airport. The rail transport had a good level of acceptance (84%), which, was, however, contradicted by the stated preference results: 73% of the respondents stated they do prefer the individual transport. One of the possible reasons for the controversial results may be the way the data was collected and arranged in this study. The conclusion of the study was that the rail transport enjoyed good acceptance amongst the respondents when imagined in a static scenario.
Highlights
Because of its swiftness, air transports have become essential and increasingly popular for long distance journeys
The rail transport had a good level of acceptance, as 84% of the respondents would consider this option provided that it met at least one of the following requirements: speed, access, price and/or safety
This paper reports a study aimed to assess whether passengers would change the road transport -- whether individual transport (IT) or passenger bus transport (BT) -- for the rail transport to reach or leave the International Airport Tancredo Neves in Confins, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Summary
Air transports have become essential and increasingly popular for long distance journeys. Many airports have been built on distant areas from the business center of the cities, causing a great volume of surface traffic to reach and leave the airport facilities. Surface transportation from urban centers to airports may be impacted by a number of variables related to traffic and transportation systems, such as traffic jams, service availability and timetable of the public transport services. Increased use of public transport services (PT) and reduced use of individual transport (IT) have been pointed out as one of the means to overcome several issues related to passengers’ journeys to and from the airports. Rather than the airline companies themselves, are in charge of providing access to and from the airports, several stakeholders, including airlines and store managers, have been concerned with the matter (BUDD, 2011)
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