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Air Travel

Volume 470: debated on Tuesday 22 January 2008

12. To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what research her Department has commissioned and evaluated on travel to and from airports by air travel passengers. (180546)

The Department for Transport uses data from surveys including the DfT public experiences of and attitudes to air travel survey and the Civil Aviation Authority's passenger surveys. The Future of Air Transport White Paper and the Project for the Sustainable Development of Heathrow were supported by modelling of passengers' choice of surface access mode to airports. The Department recently published an analysis of end-to-end journeys, with a focus on Heathrow.