A Survey to Model Demand for eVTOL Trips to Airports

In this paper, we present details of a survey we designed to estimate air travelers’ willingness to pay for electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) flights in urban areas in the United States for the bias of traveling from home to a commercial airport. The survey was administered from January 8 to June 14, 2021 and responses were obtained from 2,820 individuals who had taken at least two round-trips by air in 2019 (before COVID-19), had annual household incomes of at least $75K, and who resided in the Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas-Ft. Worth, New York City, San Francisco Bay Area, or Los Angeles combined statistical areas (CSAs). A stratified sample was used to ensure a minimum number of responses for different household income brackets, pre-COVID-19 air travel frequencies, and trip purposes (reimbursed business trips and self-paid leisure trips).