Airport classification in Chinese multi-airport regions
The agglomeration of airports into multi-airport regions (MARs) has become one of the salient features of the worldwide air transport system in the last decades. Meanwhile, in China, the development of HSR is growing quickly, and is both competitive to and cooperative with the aviation network. To...
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The agglomeration of airports into multi-airport regions (MARs) has become one of the salient features of the worldwide air transport system in the last decades. Meanwhile, in China, the development of HSR is growing quickly, and is both competitive to and cooperative with the aviation network. To date some research has focused on the airport classification with aviation network properties within the specific MARs. However, little research comprehensively integrates complementary transport systems (such as civil aviation versus high-speed rail (HSR)) into the analytical framework for airport classification. The purpose of this paper is to identify the unique nature of component airports and their distribution in MARs in China from multiple perspectives by accounting for the influence of the HSR system. Airports are classified along multiple dimensions including competitive concentrations, the interaction between air transport and HSR, and airport community structure, among others. The results produce distinct partitions of the component airports in Chinese MARs, and provide insights into Chinese airport functionality and impacts of the HSR network on the distribution of different types of airports. The conclusions provide a more comprehensive assessment of airports’ spatial arrangement in the unique Chinese MAR context. Although this paper did not derive the market share allocation and co-opetition relationship between a specific airport and HSR, it proposed a basic framework for future research.
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| spelling | doaj.art-5da51d3e62a6425b9fd21a8476f1b9972023-12-02T19:37:11ZengTU Delft OPEN PublishingEuropean Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research1567-71412022-04-0122210.18757/ejtir.2022.22.2.6043Airport classification in Chinese multi-airport regionsYuting Chen0Kurt Fuellhart1Shengrun Zhang2Frank Witlox3Department of Geography, Ghent UniversityUnison ConsultingCollege of Civil Aviation, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsDepartment of Geography, Ghent University, Belgium The agglomeration of airports into multi-airport regions (MARs) has become one of the salient features of the worldwide air transport system in the last decades. Meanwhile, in China, the development of HSR is growing quickly, and is both competitive to and cooperative with the aviation network. To date some research has focused on the airport classification with aviation network properties within the specific MARs. However, little research comprehensively integrates complementary transport systems (such as civil aviation versus high-speed rail (HSR)) into the analytical framework for airport classification. The purpose of this paper is to identify the unique nature of component airports and their distribution in MARs in China from multiple perspectives by accounting for the influence of the HSR system. Airports are classified along multiple dimensions including competitive concentrations, the interaction between air transport and HSR, and airport community structure, among others. The results produce distinct partitions of the component airports in Chinese MARs, and provide insights into Chinese airport functionality and impacts of the HSR network on the distribution of different types of airports. The conclusions provide a more comprehensive assessment of airports’ spatial arrangement in the unique Chinese MAR context. Although this paper did not derive the market share allocation and co-opetition relationship between a specific airport and HSR, it proposed a basic framework for future research. https://journals.open.tudelft.nl/ejtir/article/view/6043 |
| spellingShingle | Yuting Chen Kurt Fuellhart Shengrun Zhang Frank Witlox Airport classification in Chinese multi-airport regions European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research |
| title | Airport classification in Chinese multi-airport regions |
| title_full | Airport classification in Chinese multi-airport regions |
| title_fullStr | Airport classification in Chinese multi-airport regions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Airport classification in Chinese multi-airport regions |
| title_short | Airport classification in Chinese multi-airport regions |
| title_sort | airport classification in chinese multi airport regions |
| url | https://journals.open.tudelft.nl/ejtir/article/view/6043 |
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