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Minneapolis - St. Paul Airport Special Generator Survey Metropolitan Council Travel Behavior Inventory Final report prepared for Metropolitan Council prepared by Cambridge Systematics, Inc. April 17, 2012 www.camsys.com report Minneapolis - St. Paul Airport Special Generator Survey Metropolitan Council Travel Behavior Inventory prepared for Metropolitan Council prepared by Cambridge Systematics, Inc. 115 South LaSalle Street, Suite 2200 Chicago, IL 60603 date April 17, 2012 Minneapolis - St. Paul Airport Special Generator Survey Table of Contents 1.0 Background ...................................................................................................... 1-1 2.0 Survey Implementation ................................................................................. 2-1 2.1 Sampling Plan ......................................................................................... 2-1 2.2 Survey Effort ........................................................................................... 2-2 2.3 Questionnaire Design ............................................................................. 2-2 2.4 Field Implementation ............................................................................. 2-3 3.0 Data Preparation for Survey Expansion ....................................................... 3-1 3.1 Existing Airline Databases ..................................................................... 3-1 3.2 Airport Survey Database - Airlines ....................................................... 3-2 3.3 Airport Survey Database – Trip Distance ............................................. 3-3 4.0 Survey Expansion ........................................................................................... 4-1 4.1 Transfer and Originating Passengers .................................................... 4-1 4.2 Airlines..................................................................................................... 4-1 4.3 Trip Length .............................................................................................. 4-2 4.4 Combined Weighting Scheme ................................................................ 4-2 5.0 Data Analysis and Findings .......................................................................... 5-1 5.1 Origin Locations ...................................................................................... 5-1 5.2 Ground Trip ............................................................................................ 5-2 5.3 Air Travel ................................................................................................. 5-4 5.4 Socio-Demographics ............................................................................... 5-5 A. Survey ............................................................................................................. A-1 B. Survey Data Weighted Frequency Distributions ....................................... B-1 Cambridge Systematics, Inc. i 8296 Minneapolis - St. Paul Airport Special Generator Survey List of Tables Table 3.1 Respondents by Airline Grouping ...................................................... 3-3 Table 3.2 Distance Between MSP and Destination ............................................. 3-3 Table 4.1 Through and Originating Passengers ................................................. 4-1 Table 4.2 Mix of Respondents by Airlines in the Survey and DB1B ................. 4-2 Table 4.3 Distance from MSP to Destination in the Survey and DB1B ............. 4-2 Table 4.4 Originating Respondents in Weighting Categories ........................... 4-3 Table 4.5 Weighting of Originating Respondents .............................................. 4-3 Table 4.6 Weighting of Transfer Respondents ................................................... 4-4 Table 5.1 Trip Purpose (Weighted) ..................................................................... 5-1 Table 5.2 Access Mode (Weighted) ..................................................................... 5-2 Table 5.3 Access Mode by Travel Purpose (Weighted) ..................................... 5-3 Table 5.4 Access Mode by Party Size (Weighted) .............................................. 5-3 Table 5.5 Airport Arrival Time (Weighted) ........................................................ 5-4 Table 5.6 Distance to Destination from MSP by Carrier Group (Weighted) ............................................................................................ 5-4 Table 5.7 Average Luggage Per Person by Carrier Group (Weighted) ............ 5-4 Table 5.8 Respondent Age Groups and Gender (Weighted) ............................. 5-5 Table 5.9 Respondent Income Groups (Weighted) ............................................ 5-5 Table B.1 Arrival Location Type (Visitors) .........................................................B-1 Table B.2 Bus Service ............................................................................................B-1 Table B.3 Bus Access .............................................................................................B-1 Table B.4 Airline Group ........................................................................................B-2 Table B.5 Domestic / International Flights .........................................................B-2 Table B.6 Distance from MSP to Destination ......................................................B-2 Table B.7 Duration of Trip to MSP ......................................................................B-2 Table B.8 Employment Status ..............................................................................B-3 Table B.9 Gender ...................................................................................................B-3 Table B.10 Luggage per Person ..............................................................................B-3 Cambridge Systematics, Inc. iii List of Tables, continued Table B.11 Household Income ...............................................................................B-4 Table B.12 Children in Household ........................................................................B-4 Table B.13 Household Size .....................................................................................B-4 Table B.14 Household Vehicles ..............................................................................B-5 Table B.15 Children in Travel Party ......................................................................B-5 Table B.16 LRT Station............................................................................................B-5 Table B.17 LRT Access ............................................................................................B-5 Table B.18 Offsite Parking ......................................................................................B-6 Table B.19 Transfer vs. Originating Passengers ...................................................B-6 Table B.20 Airport Parking Area Used ..................................................................B-6 Table B.21 Reimbursed for Travel .........................................................................B-7 Table B.22 Residents vs. Visitors ...........................................................................B-7 Table B.23 Residents Returning .............................................................................B-7 Table B.24 Resident’s Purpose for Travel ..............................................................B-7 Table B.25 Resident’s Mode for Return .................................................................B-8 Table B.26 Shuttle Services .....................................................................................B-8 Table B.27 Visitor Frequency .................................................................................B-8 Table B.28 Visitor Length of Stay ...........................................................................B-9 Table B.29 Visitor’s Purpose for Travel .................................................................B-9 iv Cambridge Systematics, Inc. 8296 Minneapolis - St. Paul Airport Special Generator Survey List of Figures Figure 5.1 Maps of Ground Trip Origin Locations with Access Mode .............. 5-2 Cambridge Systematics, Inc. v Minneapolis - St. Paul Airport Special Generator Survey 1.0 Background Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport (MSP), the twin cities’ primary airport, is one of the busiest in the Midwest. In addition to being a major Delta hub, the airport is served by 12 domestic and international airlines with direct flights to 122 domestic destinations and 26 international destinations serving over 15 million passengers per year. Apart from being a connection to the rest of the country and the world, MSP is a critical and unique feature that drives the local economy and impacts the local transportation network With passengers using taxi, limousine, van and shuttle services, rental cars, local bus, light rail and private vehicles to access MSP. As part of the Metropolitan Council’s (Met Council) 2010 Travel Behavior Inventory (TBI) effort, a suite of travel surveys are being administered to better understand travel in the region. The high visitor and resident activity at MSP renders it a location of special status in the region. Therefore, a special intercept survey of air passengers was commissioned to capture travel patterns of residents and visitors to and from the airport. The surveys were administered in June 2011. A team led by Cambridge Systematics (CS) performed the surveys on behalf of Met Council. The Cambridge Systematics team (CS