Print Email Facebook Twitter Comfort Influences the Choice Between Airplane and Train Even on Short Distances Title Comfort Influences the Choice Between Airplane and Train Even on Short Distances Author Vledder, G. (TU Delft Emerging Materials) Kılıç, H. (TU Delft Materials and Manufacturing) Song, Y. (TU Delft Emerging Materials) Vink, P. (TU Delft Emerging Materials) Date 2023 Abstract High-speed rail might be a solution to reduce energy usage and carbon emissions as rail transport consumes less energy than airplanes. However, in choosing a transport system, time is an important factor in making many passengers choose air travel. This paper studies the reasons why passengers choose a transport mode, and compares the comfort of aircraft and train seats. This study shows that time and costs are the most mentioned factors, but comfort and sustainability can play a deciding role between trains and airplanes on time and cost-competitive travel routes. The train seat is evaluated as the most comfortable, but still, part of the passengers choose the aircraft as the length of sitting on the seat is limited. Subject comfort,mobilitytransport choicesustainabilityseat characteristicstrainAirplane To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ef3789ae-85c3-42a6-b7b1-2c1987a2cc90 DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/21695067231192918 ISSN 1541-9312 Source Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 67 (1), 1634-1638 Event 67th HFES International Meeting 2023, 2023-10-23 → 2023-10-27, Washington DC, United States Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2023 G. Vledder, H. Kılıç, Y. Song, P. Vink Files PDF vledder-et-al-2023-comfor ... tances.pdf 484.38 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:ef3789ae-85c3-42a6-b7b1-2c1987a2cc90/datastream/OBJ/view