Improving the Accessibility to Leeds Bradford International Airport

The accessibility to the airport is essential for air travellers since the late arrival will take a consequence to the missing flight and losing amount of money of the travel cost. During peak period, the punctuality to arrive to Leeds Bradford International Airport (LBIA) tends to be more vulnerable due to delays and queues in particular junctions in the road network. To improve the accessibility during this period, several improvements in the road network have been carried out and simulated using SATURN (Simulation and Assignment of Traffic in Urban Road Networks). The result shows that the improvement in the network managed to reduce the generalised cost of travel hence it brings user benefits for the air travellers. Through this study it is found that the junction improvement has brought monetary benefits equal to 153.67 pounds from 261 trips to LBIA which occurred during morning peak period (08.00-09.00 AM)