Chose Airport from multiple airports cities, Case study of Tehran

In recent years, an increasing number of air travelers, as well as the expansion of cities, has caused major problemsfor major airports, especially in big cities. Therefore, the knowledge of how to air travelers select airports, and analysisof those behaviors for air travel planning, future policies, and airport development is very important. In this paper, we tryto compare the modeling results of Airport selection by passengers of Imam Khomeini International Airport withpassengers of Mehrabad Airport (in Tehran) by using Binary Logit Model. For this purpose, a survey conducted in thesummer of 2018 for 8 days. Total number of questionnaires for Imam Khomeini and Mehrabad Airport was 240 and 681respectively. Surveys in the form of Stated Preference (SP) have carried out as the interview of the Imam Khomeini andMehrabad airports passengers. Finally, the model showed that the results of modeling for two mentioned airports aresomewhat different; therefore, some factors such as the experience of using the airport in the past, the age of passengersand their monthly income, were significant. However, factors such as facilities of the airport, as well as ground accessquality, were effective to choose the airport by passengers of two airports.

Keywords:

Airport Choice , Binary Logit Model , stated preference , Imam Khomeini International Airport , MehrabadInternational Airport