Research Catalog

Title

[Airline origin and destination survey] [electronic resource].

Publication

Washington, D.C. : U.S. National Archives and Records Administration

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

United States. Civil Aeronautics Board.

Summary

DB1A provides essential information for CAB staff analysis underlying regulatory policies and decisions. Data are based on a 10% sample of all revenue passengers traveling between origin and destination airports by a specific airline through specified intermediate airports. Data include city/airport codes, distance between airports, number of passengers carried between those points, reporting carrier, dollar value of ticket, and the reporting quarter. There is one record for each itinerary for each carrier for each reporting quarter. There is a world area code and the city (base and reference) is identified. The file is non-hierarchical and has no sequence. Field 3, Dollar-Value-of-Ticket, is an unedited signed numeric field submitted by carriers. According to the US Dept. of Transportation's Office of Aviation Information Management (who took over the CAB's programs) the first three bytes could be blank and the last byte could be an alpha character. DB1B contains the same data as Data Bank 1A, with the addition of dual codes for the operating and ticketed carrier. DB2C contains outbound and inbound passenger totals for the quarter of the file date and the three immediately preceding quarters, for domestic routings that have been classified as unidirectional by applying trip breaking criteria to all ticketed routings. The files also contain passenger data for domestic portions of international routings. DB5 is an auxiliary file of the Passenger-Origin & Destination Data used to supply geographic name spellings, coordinates, and additional codes to files containing coded city/airport fields. The file contains the standard 3-letter alphabetic city/airport codes, numeric sequence code for the city, world area code, abbreviated full name spelling of the city in which the airport is listed. The World area codes, found in the Official Airline Guide, and an airport designator are used to differentiate between cities with one or more airports. This dataset may be used to match code fields to corresponding fields in the other Origin & Destination files containing the same coded information. The file was updated quarterly. Dates should be the same when using DB5 with other files. After the Civil Aeronautics Board was disbanded, these data were absorbed by the US Dept. of Transportation.

Alternative Title

• Origin and destination survey
• Ticket dollar value origin and destination survey
• Airline origin and destination survey. Dollar value origin and destination, data bank 1A (DB1A).
• Airline origin and destination survey. Ticket dollar value origin and destination, data bank 1B (DB1B).
• Airline origin and destination survey. Directional origin and destination, data bank 2C (DB2C).
• Airline origin and destination survey. City/airport nomenclature, data bank 5 (DB5).

Subject

• Aeronautics, Commercial > United States > Statistics
• Aeronautics, Commercial > Statistics

Genre/Form

Statistics.

Note

• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Data accessible via the Data and Statistical Services (DSS) website.

Access (note)

• Use of these data is restricted to Princeton University students, faculty, and staff for non-commercial statistical analysis and research purposes only.

System Details (note)

• Mode of access: Internet.

Documentation (note)

• Accompanied by printed codebooks.

OCLC

• on1340465520
• SCSB-825472

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library