The privatization and commercialization of China's airports

Yang, Xiuyun; Tok, Sow Keat; Su, Fang

doi:10.1016/j.jairtraman.2008.04.012

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“…First, it was decided to focus upon airports from Europe and the Asia-Pacific regions. Given these regions are at different stages of privatisation and commercialisation of their airport infrastructure (Yang et al, 2008;Ison et al, 2011;Assaf and Gillen, 2012;Gong et al, 2012), it was thought that there may be differences in efficiency, and therefore more opportunity of discrimination between airports in the results. Second, the sample should cover most of types of airport ownership, as put forward by Gillen (2011).…”

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Evaluating the efficiency performance of airports using an integrated AHP/DEA-AR technique

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Airport efficiency is an area of increasing interest to academics, policy makers and practitioners. This has resulted in a body of literature applying various econometric techniques to compare efficiency between different samples of airports. This paper uses the multi-criteria decision making method Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to incorporate the weightings of input and output variables into Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Assurance Region DEA (DEA-AR) models, with 24 major international airports in the empirical analysis. The paper concludes the discriminatory power in the proposed AHP/DEA-AR model is greater than in the basic DEA model when measuring the efficiency of airports. By applying this approach, policy makers and practitioners can effectively compare operational efficiency between airports, and therefore generate more informed decisions.

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Evaluating the efficiency performance of airports using an integrated AHP/DEA-AR technique

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“…Most recently, Ma and Timberlake (2008) used longitudinal air passenger flow data to analyze the leading cities in China at both the national and global levels during 1990-2005. Other studies (Le, 1997;Zhang, 1998;Liu, 2000;Zhang and Chen, 2003;Zhang and Round, 2008;Yang et al, 2008;Zhang and Round, 2009;Shaw et al, 2009) emphasized the regulation and management of China's airline industry and air transport system. Li and Cai (2004), the only study on ATNC using the complex network approach, identified its basic topological properties.…”

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Exploring the network structure and nodal centrality of China’s air transport network: A complex network approach

Wang

et al. 2011

Journal of Transport Geography

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“…As a result, non-stop flight linkages prominently factor in global city rankings (Foreign Policy, 2010; see Derudder et al, 2009;Keeling, 1995). A generalized global shift towards the deregulation and privatization of commercial air transportation over the past four decades has only served to deepen the centrality of air infrastructure within a competitive, increasingly urbanized, global economy (Freestone, 2011;Sinha, 1999;Small, 1993;Yang et al, 2008). The commercialization of airport management has proceeded apace and airport facilities are now regularly incorporated in private global investment portfolios (Graham, 2013;McNeill, 2010;Torrance, 2008).…”

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Flying high (in the competitive sky): Conceptualizing the role of airports in global city-regions through “aero-regionalism”

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2014

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a b s t r a c tAirports are key catalysts for urban growth and economic development in an era of global urbanization. In addition to their global economic functions, the multiscalar connectivity and localized impacts of air transport infrastructure place them at the heart of city-regional politics and planning. Yet the relations between global air transport, economic development and city-regionalism remain under-theorized. This paper introduces the concept of aero-regionalism to explore the relationality/territoriality dialectic and mechanisms of state territorialization unfurling at the nexus of globalization, air transport, city-regionalism and air transport. I provide a relational geographic comparison of the impact of varying local institutional arrangements and policy frameworks on the political and infrastructural integration of airports in the global city-regions of Chicago and Toronto. The paper analyzes the relative significance of variations in local transportation and planning systems to develop our understanding of the relations between global aviation infrastructures and their surrounding regional spaces, and the connectivity between major global ports and local transportation capillaries in global city-regions. The concept of aero-regionalism advances our understanding of the urban political economy of airports by uncovering how competitive economic globalization, state spatiality and the development of large-scale airport infrastructures are mediated through the symbiotic, if contested, co-production of urban and air space. While divergent governance regimes have shaped the development of urban transportation networks in the two case city-regions, the imperatives of globalization and neoliberalization are pressuring the material, political and discursive regionalization of airport space while privileging the logics of premium networked mobility.

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The privatization and commercialization of China's airports

Cited by 35 publications

References 3 publications

Evaluating the efficiency performance of airports using an integrated AHP/DEA-AR technique

Evaluating the efficiency performance of airports using an integrated AHP/DEA-AR technique

Exploring the network structure and nodal centrality of China’s air transport network: A complex network approach

Flying high (in the competitive sky): Conceptualizing the role of airports in global city-regions through “aero-regionalism”

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