Assessing air traveler preferences for pay-per-weight pricing

IF 6.3 1区工程技术 Q1 ECONOMICS

Transportation Research Part A-Policy and Practice Pub Date : 2024-11-02 DOI:10.1016/j.tra.2024.104302

Lorenzo Masiero , Judit Zoltan , Denis Tolkach , Stephen Pratt , Matias Thuen Jørgensen , Markus Schuckert , Kaye Chon

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Abstract

In efforts to reduce fuel consumption of air travel, the inclusion of passenger body weight in airline pricing is a relevant but contested opportunity. This study aims to investigate this issue from the economic perspective; by implementing a stated choice experiment to assess the stated preferences of consumers toward a set of predefined air passenger weight policies. Three policies are tested: “standard”, where price is defined irrespective of weight; “threshold body weight”, where an additional fee is required when exceeding a certain weight; and “unit body weight”, where passengers pay according to their body weight and receive a discount for reduced luggage size. In terms of respondents’ preferences for policies, service and price attributes were found to have significant importance, while environmental concerns related to pay-per-weight pricing received only marginal consideration. The results provide practical implications to airline companies regarding pricing policies and airline choice behavior.

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评估航空旅客对按重量付费定价的偏好

为了减少航空旅行的燃料消耗，将乘客体重纳入航空公司定价是一个相关但有争议的机会。本研究旨在从经济学角度对这一问题进行研究；通过实施陈述选择实验，评估消费者对一组预定义的航空乘客体重政策的陈述偏好。实验测试了三种政策："标准 "政策，即不考虑重量而确定价格；"临界体重 "政策，即超过一定重量时需要支付额外费用；以及 "单位体重 "政策，即乘客根据自己的体重付费，并在行李尺寸减少时获得折扣。就受访者对政策的偏好而言，服务和价格属性被认为具有重要意义，而与按重量付费定价相关的环境问题只得到了微不足道的考虑。研究结果为航空公司提供了定价政策和航空公司选择行为方面的实际意义。

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Transportation Research Part A-Policy and Practice 工程技术-运输科技

CiteScore

13.20

自引率

7.80%

发文量

257

审稿时长

9.8 months

期刊介绍： Transportation Research: Part A contains papers of general interest in all passenger and freight transportation modes: policy analysis, formulation and evaluation; planning; interaction with the political, socioeconomic and physical environment; design, management and evaluation of transportation systems. Topics are approached from any discipline or perspective: economics, engineering, sociology, psychology, etc. Case studies, survey and expository papers are included, as are articles which contribute to unification of the field, or to an understanding of the comparative aspects of different systems. Papers which assess the scope for technological innovation within a social or political framework are also published. The journal is international, and places equal emphasis on the problems of industrialized and non-industrialized regions. Part A''s aims and scope are complementary to Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Part C: Emerging Technologies and Part D: Transport and Environment. Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review. Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour. The complete set forms the most cohesive and comprehensive reference of current research in transportation science.