Abstract
Despite the growing presence of on-demand, app-based ride services at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), not much is known about their characteristics and usage. This paper estimates and compares travel times and costs of rides by Uber and Lyft (also known as shared rides) and other forms of ground transportation to LAX. Using the estimated travel times and costs and the 2015 Los Angeles International Airport Passenger Survey, it models the airport access mode choice decisions to analyze how different circumstances including an increase in shared ride costs or a decrease in cost for a ten minute increase in travel time would impact shared ride market shares. The analysis has implications on airport management policies and predicting usersâ?? responses to carpool version of share ride services such as Uber Pool and Lyft Line. Shared ride fares are currently only about 55% of the cost of taxis. The estimated nested logit model implies that if fares were to increase to match the cost of taxis, the demand for shared rides would fall from 9% to 7%. Meanwhile, if fares were cut by 50% and travel time increased by 10 minutes, the demand would rise by about 1.5%.