Global spatial organisation of air transport: The definition of functional airline regions

Halás, Marián; Kraft, Stanislav; Klapka, Pavel

doi:10.1111/geoj.12313

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“…Multi-airport cities have an advantage, and Vienna is neither a major hub nor a multi-airport city. According to [80], it does not qualify to be a "world airline hub", and in comparison to other airports it has a very low total number of flights and a low proportion of long-haul flights.…”

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Transport Policy as a Way to Strengthen Geostrategic Position – A Review of Vienna as a Centre of Air and High-Speed Rail Transport in Central Europe

Stellner¹,

Vokoun²,

Szobi³

et al. 2023

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Vienna’s geostrategic importance fluctuated through the ages because of the power clashes and subsequent political and socio-economic impacts on the population. This paper assesses its current position in a historical context and then focuses more on the socio-economic dimensions such as interconnectedness and other transport aspects of the geostrategic position. Air and environmentally friendlier modes of passenger transport like high-speed rail are considered and analysed in the European context. This paper also reviews the results and issues dealing with the development of the Vienna Airport and the progress of high-speed railway projects in the Central European Economies (CEEs) after the European Union’s enlargement in 2004. The results suggest that after a restoration period of Vienna’s geostrategic position between 1995–2005, there is currently only a moderate and slowly growing exercise of power, control or influence over the CEEs. The results suggest that there is competition from busier German hub airports as well as the growing importance of CEE airports in transit and growing passenger transport performance figures. The lack of environmentally friendly high-speed infrastructure as a viable option instead of the fastest air travel is preventing Vienna to strengthen its strategic position. Its strategic importance is highly affected by the underdeveloped transport networks in CEEs and the future development of the Vienna Airport as a major transport hub.

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Transport Policy as a Way to Strengthen Geostrategic Position – A Review of Vienna as a Centre of Air and High-Speed Rail Transport in Central Europe

Stellner¹,

Vokoun²,

Szobi³

et al. 2023

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“…In practical terms, these nodes are sometimes classified based on traffic levels, such as the classification used by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for American hubs [1]. In analytical transport research, hubs are defined based on the throughput and connectivity they provide [2,3]. Hubs serve as facilities through which flows are channelled, while spokes are arcs connecting origins or destinations to one or more hubs.…”

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Contrasts in Sustainability between Hub-Based and Point-to-Point Airline Networks

O’Kelly,

Park

2023

Sustainability

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Airline hubs are often defined as nodes with a high degree of connectivity. Connectivity is measured by the “degree” of the node. The degree distribution of hub networks tends to have a convex shape (curved towards the origin), while point-to-point networks have a higher number of high-degree nodes and a concave shape. This study aims to classify airline networks based on their hub orientation, expanding our understanding of network differences. The analysis in this paper involves fitting a power-law distribution, determining the range of degree distribution, and calculating the distribution of betweenness. These analyses provide insight into the classification of each airline. Each measurement helps to clarify the ambiguity in other scores. The goal is to establish a small set of rules that can clearly distinguish between the main types of networks. The classification includes four types of networks: One-hub, P2P(point-to-point), Multi-hub, and Complex networks. There is a well-recognized empirical distinction between hub networks, which have a few places with large betweenness, and point-to-point cases, which have a larger number of places with moderate betweenness. The significance of these results in terms of geographic importance is demonstrated by sorting 284 different airline networks based on these dimensions. These findings are expected to provide valuable information about the resilience and recovery of a network, as networks with many long-range connections are particularly vulnerable to a decrease in traffic. Additionally, these results have implications for the ability of networks to recover from a downturn.

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“…The first is about the features of the air transportation network and its spatial organization mechanism, including the elastic evaluation of the air transportation network ( 5 ), network structure ( 6 ), complexity of networks ( 7 , 8 ) and robustness analysis ( 9 ), air transportation radiation network ( 10 ), multiple networks ( 11 ), convergent networks ( 12 ), characteristic analysis and simulation ( 8 ), air transportation network complexity ( 13 ), centrality and community ( 14 , 15 ), nodality ( 16 ), scalability ( 17 ), air connectivity index ( 18 ), fractal characteristics ( 19 ), the aerodynamics of an air transportation network ( 20 ), and its spatial and temporal evolution ( 21 ). The second is about the geographical distribution of aviation flows, including hub airport system ( 22 ), spatial concentration ( 23 , 24 ), the geographical pattern of air passenger and freight flows in different countries and regions ( 25 ), the impact of special events ( 26 ), and spatial strategy of low-cost aviation network ( 27 ). The third is to study urban networks based on aviation flows, including regional urban connection intensity ( 28 ) and international urban systems based on the spatial distribution of air passenger and freight flows and their driving factors ( 29 ).…”

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Re-examining the Rank-Size Distribution, Characteristics, and Evolutionary Trends of Air Transport Flows in China

Zhou

Huang

Yang

et al. 2023

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation R

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Understanding of air transport geography is essential since air transport activity is highly related to regional economic development. A geographical issue arises: Does Zipf’s law strike again? Zipf’s law can be an efficient tool to detect the geographical distribution of air passenger (or freight) flows. Using provincial passenger and freight traffic data from 1980 to 2019, this study adopts Zipf’s law to analyze rank-size distribution characteristics of the air transport industry in China and its evolution. We then build a Geo-Detector model to explore the driving forces of geographical distributions (of air traffic). The findings are as follows. First, the geographical distribution of aviation flows in China complies with Zipf’s law, and the freight flow is more significant than the passenger flow. From a spatial to spatial-temporal perspective, the geographical distribution of different aviation flows (i.e., air passenger and freight flows) can be more diverse. Second, critical factors like international import trade, the number of foreign business travelers, and foreign direct investment combine to shape the geographical distribution of air traffic.

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Global spatial organisation of air transport: The definition of functional airline regions

Cited by 7 publications

References 54 publications

Transport Policy as a Way to Strengthen Geostrategic Position – A Review of Vienna as a Centre of Air and High-Speed Rail Transport in Central Europe

Transport Policy as a Way to Strengthen Geostrategic Position – A Review of Vienna as a Centre of Air and High-Speed Rail Transport in Central Europe

Contrasts in Sustainability between Hub-Based and Point-to-Point Airline Networks

Re-examining the Rank-Size Distribution, Characteristics, and Evolutionary Trends of Air Transport Flows in China

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