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Intercity Passenger Rail Access to Airports: A Case Study at the Milwaukee Airport
INTRODUCTION
Mobility has been affected over history by the development of different modes of transportation.
How these modes have interacted has also had a large and lasting effect on mobility. Intercity
travel has especially been affected through the development of different modes of travel from the
establishment of the rail system to the invention of air travel. How these modes interact, either
as competitive or complimentary modes, has a great effect on regional and national travel. One
of the major ways that modes can interact is through an intermodal center that allows passengers
to change from one mode to another at one location.
Direct connection between intercity passenger rail and air travel is common in many parts of the
world. This type of connection is accomplished most effectively by locating an intercity
passenger rail station at the airport. With these connections passengers can connect to major
airports from surrounding cities or to their final destination from an airport located in a different
city by using intercity passenger rail in cooperation with air travel. In the United States, there
are only four cases where this connection exists. Each of these airports has a rail station that is
located adjacent to the airport and is served by Amtrak, the U.S. national rail system operator.
One of the four airport-intercity rail connections in the U.S. is located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
The Hiawatha Service intercity passenger rail route runs from Chicago to downtown Milwaukee.
One of the stations along this route is located three-fourths of a mile from the Milwaukee
General Mitchell International Airport. This type of intermodal connection has potential to have
high impacts on mobility on a national and regional level. In order to create a better
understanding of these impacts, this project examines who uses this connection, how they use the
connection, and how the connection affects mobility.
To develop a background understanding of the effect of this connection, a review of past studies
and reports on the subjects of intercity passenger rail, airport ground access, and related topics
has been preformed. The information that has been deemed pertinent to the study will be
outlined in the background information section of this paper. Following that is an outline of the
study with each of the steps taken to gather the necessary information to try and answer the
question of how this type of interconnection affects mobility. The data that were received from
these steps and the analysis of that data will be laid out and discussed. The conclusions and
recommendations at the end of this paper will help to develop a better understanding of the
effects of airport and intercity rail connections for the U.S. transportation system.
BACKGROUND
Numerous studies have been done on the subject of airport ground access. These studies have
developed a foundation that will be necessary to be able to better understand the role of intercity
passenger rail in airport ground access. A thorough review of airport connections by means by
local passenger rail stations for airports in the United States was conducted. The frequency of
this type of connection has been increasing and in some areas, rail services have claimed a
significant portion of the ground access market share (1). A review of the existing air-intercity
passenger rail connections in the U.S. was necessary and will also be provided in this section.
Lastly, the connection between intercity passenger rail and airports in Europe and Asia wasShawn Larson Page 92
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Desorcie, Felicia; Jian, Ruoxin; Kelly, Pete; Larson, Shawn; Rasulo, Marcus; Rivera, Joshua et al. Compendium of student papers: 2011 undergraduate transportation scholars program., report, May 2012; College Station, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth281729/m1/100/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.