A Study on the Promotion of the Using Local Airports for Business Travelers

There are many airports in Japan. A couple of them are big ones such as Haneda (Tokyo), Itami and Kansai (Osaka) that are located in or around big cities. Other airports, many of them that are local airports are in middle or small scale cities. In case of connecting to the airport in big city, they are able to have large demand of trip. But in case of connecting to one in small cities, they probably are not expected to have large demand. In addition, the presence of high speed rail accelerates the reduction of demand for flight. In this paper, some policies for the promotion of using local airport are examined, especially trip from local airport to another local one. We already had proposed the long trip model for business travelers in which people decides their depart time and mode. We used it to examine the policies and situations such as frequency, fare, access time to the airport.