Passengers' airport choice within multi-airport regions (MARs): some insights from a stated preference survey at Hong Kong International Airport

Journal of Transport Geography

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 117-125

  Loo, Becky P Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Airport level of service attributes; Hong Kong Pearl River Delta; Market segmentation; Multinomial logit model; Muti airport region; Stated preference survey

Indexed keywords

AIRPORT; LOGIT ANALYSIS; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVEY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GUANGDONG; HONG KONG; ZHUJIANG DELTA;

EID: 38549119815     PISSN: 09666923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2007.05.003     Document Type: Article

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