Author/Authors :
Mamdoohi، Amir Reza نويسنده Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran Mamdoohi, Amir Reza , Yazdanpanah، Mahdi نويسنده Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Civil Engineering, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran , , Taherpour، Abolfazl نويسنده MSc. Grad., Department of Civil Engineering, Islamic Azad University, South Branch, Tehran, Iran , , Saffarzadeh، Mahmood نويسنده Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran ,
Abstract :
Increasing number of air travellers in recent years and the emergence of multi-airport cities throughout
the world has made the behaviour of travellers regarding the choice of the origin airport even
more important. Analysis of this behaviour helps for a better future planning and development of
competing airports as an important element of their demand prediction. In this paper, particular
emphasis is stressed on the behaviour of resident and non-resident passengers in choosing between
the origin airport through the empirical case study of the two airports of Tehran multi-airport system,
namely Imam Khomeini (IKIA) and Mehrabad International Airport (MIA) in Iran. The 24-
hour and one-week survey was conducted in May 2011 and a total number of 2980 questionnaires
were collected from the two airports. Binary Logit was used to model the origin airport choice of
resident and non-resident travellers from the city of Tehran. Results show that the difference in the
two groups is affected by “age”, “Income”, “Travel Destination”, “Trip Purpose” and “Marital Status”.
Further model results show that variables “Public Access”, “Flight Frequency” and “Airport
Tax” are more important for non-resident air travellers in choosing their origin airport.
