Door-to-Door Air Travel Time Analysis in the United States using Uber Data

Abstract

NextGen and ACARE Flightpath 2050 set some ambitious goals for air travel, including improving the passenger travel experience using door-to-door travel times as a possible metric. Using recently released Uber data along with other online databases, a reliable estimation of door-to-door travel times is possible, which then enables a comparison of cities performance regarding the good integration of their airports as well as a per segment analysis of the full trip. This model can also be used to better evaluate where progress should and can be made with respect to air passenger travel experience.