How Air Transport Connects The World: A New Metric of Air Connectivity and Its Evolution Between 1990 And 2012
Scheduled air transport services connect airports throughout the world and thereby enable interaction on a global scale. By doing so, they spur globalization (Hummels, 2007) as well as social and economic development (Lakshmanan, 2011). In order to facilitate integration of regions into global value...
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| description | Scheduled air transport services connect airports throughout the world and thereby enable interaction on a global scale. By doing so, they spur globalization (Hummels, 2007) as well as social and economic development (Lakshmanan, 2011). In order to facilitate integration of regions into global value chains, planners, scholars and policymakers therefore need to
understand as to how scheduled air transport services link a region to other markets. For this purpose, connectivity metrics have been developed, which measure the degree of connections between airports (Burghouwt, Redondi, 2013). In particular, the ‘connection quality-weighting’ approach (Veldhuis, 1997; Burghouwt, de Wit, 2005) has been used to compute the aggregate
quality of all available connections at an airport with regard to their properties in quickly bridging distances. However, such a metric has neither been calibrated on the basis of observed passenger behavior nor been computed for the world’s airports across a multi-decade time series. This paper sets out to develop the first such metric and to discuss global airline network
development between 1990 and 2012 from a connectivity perspective. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/959682019-04-11T03:05:47Z How Air Transport Connects The World: A New Metric of Air Connectivity and Its Evolution Between 1990 And 2012 Allroggen, Florian Wittman, Michael Malina, Robert Air Transportation global value chains global connectivity Scheduled air transport services connect airports throughout the world and thereby enable interaction on a global scale. By doing so, they spur globalization (Hummels, 2007) as well as social and economic development (Lakshmanan, 2011). In order to facilitate integration of regions into global value chains, planners, scholars and policymakers therefore need to understand as to how scheduled air transport services link a region to other markets. For this purpose, connectivity metrics have been developed, which measure the degree of connections between airports (Burghouwt, Redondi, 2013). In particular, the ‘connection quality-weighting’ approach (Veldhuis, 1997; Burghouwt, de Wit, 2005) has been used to compute the aggregate quality of all available connections at an airport with regard to their properties in quickly bridging distances. However, such a metric has neither been calibrated on the basis of observed passenger behavior nor been computed for the world’s airports across a multi-decade time series. This paper sets out to develop the first such metric and to discuss global airline network development between 1990 and 2012 from a connectivity perspective. Florian Allroggen gratefully acknowledges funding from the German Research Foundation under grant no.: AL 1814/1-1. Michael Wittman thanks the members of the MIT Airline Industry Consortium for financial support and helpful comments throughout the development of this paper. 2015-03-11T20:44:34Z 2015-03-11T20:44:34Z 2015-03-11 Technical Report http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/95968 en_US ICAT;2015-01 application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | Air Transportation global value chains global connectivity Allroggen, Florian Wittman, Michael Malina, Robert How Air Transport Connects The World: A New Metric of Air Connectivity and Its Evolution Between 1990 And 2012 |
| title | How Air Transport Connects The World: A New Metric of Air Connectivity and Its Evolution Between 1990 And 2012 |
| title_full | How Air Transport Connects The World: A New Metric of Air Connectivity and Its Evolution Between 1990 And 2012 |
| title_fullStr | How Air Transport Connects The World: A New Metric of Air Connectivity and Its Evolution Between 1990 And 2012 |
| title_full_unstemmed | How Air Transport Connects The World: A New Metric of Air Connectivity and Its Evolution Between 1990 And 2012 |
| title_short | How Air Transport Connects The World: A New Metric of Air Connectivity and Its Evolution Between 1990 And 2012 |
| title_sort | how air transport connects the world a new metric of air connectivity and its evolution between 1990 and 2012 |
| topic | Air Transportation global value chains global connectivity |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/95968 |
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