The role of security in passengers' airport ground access choices: A statistical evaluation

The choice of how passenger access the airport by land involves several objective and subjective factors that can be exemplified, respectively, as the cost of access and the particular situations that the passenger has already experienced. However, the ways found in the literature do not include the "security" variable as a decisive part of this process of choice. Thus, through a survey of Declared Preference carried out at the International Airport of Guarulhos/Sao Paulo (SBGR), the variable "security" was incorporated based on a conjoint analysis, which contemplated attributes of greater consensus in the literature related to the choice of getting to the airport by ground. Based on the results of the statistical analysis, it is possible to affirm that security is as decisive a factor in choosing the kind of transportation as the time taken to arrive at the airport. Among these findings, it can be said that the concern with security is greater among lower-income passengers, but there is no evidence that men and women have different concerns about the subject.