Passenger Behavior Characteristics-Based Research on Beijing “One City, Two Airports” Air Traffic Assignment under the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Coordination Strategy

After the construction completion of the Beijing new airport, based on the increasingly mature and integrated ground transportation, the research on the aviation market demand distribution of the regional airport system based on passenger behavior characteristics has been significant for Beijing to explore the cooperation mode of “one city, two airports”. Based on the background of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordination strategy, this thesis firstly analyzes air passenger behavior attribute characteristics in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region from three aspects including passenger personal characteristics, passenger travel characteristics, and aviation activity selection behavior characteristics. Secondly, the passenger group is divided into business travelers and leisure travelers, and then this thesis constructs a two-layer nested Logit model of the selected airports, and finally predicts the radiation area and air traffic assignment of “one city, two airports” of Beijing. The results show that: (1) in terms of passenger behavior characteristics, the top preference of business travelers is flight frequency, while it is flight fare for leisure passengers, and the on-time rate is a common concern factor for both business and leisure travelers. (2) Both airports in Beijing radiate cities including Beijing, Tianjin, Tangshan, Langfang, Baoding, and Cangzhou. (3) After the operation of the new airport, passenger flow of PEK will be diverted to ease its operational pressure on one hand, and it will also expand the aviation radiation area of Beijing and promote the competitiveness of Beijing as an international aviation hub.