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... Although modeling airport access mode choice by air passengers and, to a lesser extent airport employees, has largely been restricted to specialized studies addressing airport landside and system planning issues, there is a growing interest in explicitly modeling such trips in the regional transportation planning process. As indicated in the survey responses discussed in chapter three, a number of MPOs have begun to address air passenger trips using a specialpurpose mode choice model or special-generator sub-model and a somewhat smaller number of MPOs have begun to do the same for airport employee trips.
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... 73 trips and between work trips and non-work trips. For example, the regional travel demand model for the San Francisco Bay Area (Baycast-90 Users Guide .
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... utilizes a proprietary air passenger mode choice model, the output of which is then used as input to the regular regional travel modeling process. Atlanta Regional Commission The ARC is the MPO for the Atlanta region.
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... 75 review addresses airport choice modeling, which is outside the scope of this report. Southern California Association of Governments SCAG is the MPO for the six-county Southern California region that includes the Los Angeles basin and contains six primary commercial service airports with significant levels of airline service and several secondary commercial service airports that have some regional airline service or support air cargo activity.

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