The Dulles International Airport Study conducted between March and May 1970 has shown that in several years the peaking of automobile traffic will be so pronounced with the introduction of larger aircraft, that the congestion on the Dulles Airport Access Road will parallel the present congestion on Shirley Highway during the evening rush-hour periods. An analysis of the number of enplaning passengers has shown that 86% of the passengers depart Dulles between 9 a.m. and 8 p.m. Since the majority of the transcontinental flights and the intercontinental flights depart during the late afternoon-early evening hours, the peaking at Dulles is sharpest during those periods. The modal percentage distribution of departing passengers indicates taxis bring 7.2% of the departing passengers to the airport, buses 28.5%, limousines 2.3%, and passenger cars 62.0%. Whereas these figures present the traffic distribution for departing passengers, the study also includes an analysis of the percentage of total airport vehicular activity. (Author)
Dulles International Airport Access
1970
48 pages
Report
No indication
English
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