Measuring the development of airline networks: Comprehensive indicators
Author
Abstract
Suggested Citation
DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2019.12.010
Download full text from publisher
As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to look for a different version below or search for a different version of it.
Other versions of this item:
- Chantal Roucolle & Tatiana Seregina & Miguel Urdanoz, 2020. "Measuring the development of airline networks: Comprehensive indicators," Post-Print hal-02616818, HAL.
References listed on IDEAS
- Juan Martín & Augusto Voltes-Dorta, 2008. "Theoretical Evidence of Existing Pitfalls in Measuring Hubbing Practices in Airline Networks," Networks and Spatial Economics, Springer, vol. 8(2), pages 161-181, September.
- Severin Borenstein, 1992.
"The Evolution of U.S. Airline Competition,"
Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 6(2), pages 45-73, Spring.
- Borenstein, S., 1991. "The Evolution of U.S. Airline Competition," Papers 389, California Davis - Institute of Governmental Affairs.
- Silva, Hugo E. & Verhoef, Erik T. & van den Berg, Vincent A.C., 2014.
"Airline route structure competition and network policy,"
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Elsevier, vol. 67(C), pages 320-343.
- Hugo Emilo Silva & Erik T. Verhoef & Vincent van den Berg, 2013. "Airline Route Structure Competition and Network Policy," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 13-189/VIII, Tinbergen Institute.
- Darin Lee & María José Luengo-Prado, 2005. "The Impact of Passenger Mix on Reported “Hub Premiums” in the U.S. Airline Industry," Southern Economic Journal, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 72(2), pages 372-394, October.
- Jan K. Brueckner, 2002. "Airport Congestion When Carriers Have Market Power," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 92(5), pages 1357-1375, December.
- Jan K. Brueckner, 2004.
"Network Structure and Airline Scheduling,"
Journal of Industrial Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 52(2), pages 291-312, June.
- Brueckner, Jan K., 2002. "Network Structure and Airline Scheduling," Working Papers 02-0112, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Business.
- Fageda, Xavier & Flores-Fillol, Ricardo, 2016.
"How do airlines react to airport congestion? The role of networks,"
Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 56(C), pages 73-81.
- Fageda, Xavier, 1975- & Flores-Fillol, Ricardo, 2015. "How Do Airlines React to Airport Congestion? The Role of Networks," Working Papers 2072/260960, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Department of Economics.
- Marco Alderighi & Alessandro Cento & Peter Nijkamp & Piet Rietveld, 2007. "Assessment of New Hub‐and‐Spoke and Point‐to‐Point Airline Network Configurations," Transport Reviews, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 27(5), pages 529-549, February.
- Nero, Giovanni, 1999. "A note on the competitive advantage of large hub-and-spoke networks," Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Elsevier, vol. 35(4), pages 225-239, December.
- Klophaus, Richard & Conrady, Roland & Fichert, Frank, 2012. "Low cost carriers going hybrid: Evidence from Europe," Journal of Air Transport Management, Elsevier, vol. 23(C), pages 54-58.
- Du, Wen-Bo & Zhou, Xing-Lian & Lordan, Oriol & Wang, Zhen & Zhao, Chen & Zhu, Yan-Bo, 2016. "Analysis of the Chinese Airline Network as multi-layer networks," Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Elsevier, vol. 89(C), pages 108-116.
- Wandelt, Sebastian & Sun, Xiaoqian, 2015. "Evolution of the international air transportation country network from 2002 to 2013," Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Elsevier, vol. 82(C), pages 55-78.
- Burghouwt, Guillaume & de Wit, Jaap, 2005. "Temporal configurations of European airline networks," Journal of Air Transport Management, Elsevier, vol. 11(3), pages 185-198.
- Cook, Andrew & Blom, Henk A.P. & Lillo, Fabrizio & Mantegna, Rosario Nunzio & Miccichè, Salvatore & Rivas, Damián & Vázquez, Rafael & Zanin, Massimiliano, 2015. "Applying complexity science to air traffic management," Journal of Air Transport Management, Elsevier, vol. 42(C), pages 149-158.
- Kaddour Hadri, 2000.
"Testing for stationarity in heterogeneous panel data,"
Econometrics Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 3(2), pages 148-161.
- Kaddour Hadri, 1999. "Testing For Stationarity In Heterogeneous Panel Data," Working Papers 1999_04, University of Liverpool, Department of Economics.
- Federico Ciliberto & Jonathan W. Williams, 2010.
"Limited Access to Airport Facilities and Market Power in the Airline Industry,"
Journal of Law and Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 53(3), pages 467-495.
- Ciliberto, Federico & Williams, Jonathan, 2009. "Limited Access to Airport Facilities and Market Power in the Airline Industry," MPRA Paper 24889, University Library of Munich, Germany.
- Christopher Mayer & Todd Sinai, 2003. "Network Effects, Congestion Externalities, and Air Traffic Delays: Or Why Not All Delays Are Evil," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 93(4), pages 1194-1215, September.
- M. Hashem Pesaran, 2007.
"A simple panel unit root test in the presence of cross-section dependence,"
Journal of Applied Econometrics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 22(2), pages 265-312.
- Pesaran, M.H., 2003. "A Simple Panel Unit Root Test in the Presence of Cross Section Dependence," Cambridge Working Papers in Economics 0346, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.
- Alderighi, Marco & Cento, Alessandro & Nijkamp, Peter & Rietveld, Piet, 2005. "Network competition—the coexistence of hub-and-spoke and point-to-point systems," Journal of Air Transport Management, Elsevier, vol. 11(5), pages 328-334.
- Silke Januszewski Forbes & Mara Lederman, 2009. "Adaptation and Vertical Integration in the Airline Industry," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 99(5), pages 1831-1849, December.
- Aura Reggiani & Sara Signoretti & Peter Nijkamp & Alessandro Cento, 2009.
"Network Measures in Civil Air Transport: A Case Study of Lufthansa,"
Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, in: Ahmad K. Naimzada & Silvana Stefani & Anna Torriero (ed.), Networks, Topology and Dynamics, pages 257-282,
Springer.
- Aura Reggiani & Sara Signoretti & Peter Nijkamp & Alessandro Cento, 2009. "Network Measures in Civil Air Transport: A Case Study of Lufthansa," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 09-048/3, Tinbergen Institute.
- Burghouwt, Guillaume & Hakfoort, Jacco & Ritsema van Eck, Jan, 2003. "The spatial configuration of airline networks in Europe," Journal of Air Transport Management, Elsevier, vol. 9(5), pages 309-323.
- Guillaume Burghouwt & Renato Redondi, 2013. "Connectivity in Air Transport Networks: An Assessment of Models and Applications," Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, University of Bath, vol. 47(1), pages 35-53, January.
- Angeloudis, Panagiotis & Fisk, David, 2006. "Large subway systems as complex networks," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 367(C), pages 553-558.
- James F. Campbell & Morton E. O'Kelly, 2012. "Twenty-Five Years of Hub Location Research," Transportation Science, INFORMS, vol. 46(2), pages 153-169, May.
- Wojahn, Oliver W., 2001. "Airline network structure and the gravity model," Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Elsevier, vol. 37(4), pages 267-279, August.
- Li, Baibing & Martin, Elaine B. & Morris, A. Julian, 2002. "On principal component analysis in L1," Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 40(3), pages 471-474, September.
- Dunn, Sarah & Wilkinson, Sean M., 2016. "Increasing the resilience of air traffic networks using a network graph theory approach," Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Elsevier, vol. 90(C), pages 39-50.
- Tan, Kerry M. & Samuel, Andrew, 2016. "The effect of de-hubbing on airfares," Journal of Air Transport Management, Elsevier, vol. 50(C), pages 45-52.
- Brueckner, Jan K & Spiller, Pablo T, 1994. "Economies of Traffic Density in the Deregulated Airline Industry," Journal of Law and Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 37(2), pages 379-415, October.
- Flores-Fillol, Ricardo, 2009. "Airline competition and network structure," Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Elsevier, vol. 43(10), pages 966-983, December.
- Alumur, Sibel & Kara, Bahar Y., 2008. "Network hub location problems: The state of the art," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 190(1), pages 1-21, October.
- Gillen, David & Hasheminia, Hamed & Jiang, Changmin, 2015. "Strategic considerations behind the network–regional airline tie ups – A theoretical and empirical study," Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Elsevier, vol. 72(C), pages 93-111.
- Grubesic, Tony H. & Matisziw, Timothy C. & Zook, Matthew A., 2009. "Spatio-temporal fluctuations in the global airport hierarchies," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 17(4), pages 264-275.
- Bitzan, John & Peoples, James, 2016. "A comparative analysis of cost change for low-cost, full-service, and other carriers in the US airline industry," Research in Transportation Economics, Elsevier, vol. 56(C), pages 25-41.
- Ryerson, Megan S. & Kim, Hyun, 2013. "Integrating airline operational practices into passenger airline hub definition," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 31(C), pages 84-93.
- Jarach, David & Zerbini, Fabrizio & Miniero, Giulia, 2009. "When legacy carriers converge with low-cost carriers: Exploring the fusion of European airline business models through a case-based analysis," Journal of Air Transport Management, Elsevier, vol. 15(6), pages 287-293.
- Ken Hendricks & Michele Piccione & Guofu Tan, 1997. "Entry and Exit in Hub-Spoke Networks," RAND Journal of Economics, The RAND Corporation, vol. 28(2), pages 291-303, Summer.
- Mara Lederman, 2008. "Are Frequent‐Flyer Programs a Cause of the “Hub Premium”?," Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 17(1), pages 35-66, March.
- Jan K. Brueckner & Yimin Zhang, 2001. "A Model of Scheduling in Airline Networks: How a Hub-and-Spoke System Affects Flight Frequency, Fares and Welfare," Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, University of Bath, vol. 35(2), pages 195-222, May.
- Wang, Jiaoe & Mo, Huihui & Wang, Fahui & Jin, Fengjun, 2011. "Exploring the network structure and nodal centrality of China’s air transport network: A complex network approach," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 19(4), pages 712-721.
- Pels, Eric & Nijkamp, Peter & Rietveld, Piet, 2000. "A note on the optimality of airline networks," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 69(3), pages 429-434, December.
- Barla, Philippe & Constantatos, Christos, 2005. "Strategic interactions and airline network morphology under demand uncertainty," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 49(3), pages 703-716, April.
- Aura Reggiani & Peter Nijkamp & Alessandro Cento, 2009. "Connectivity and Competition in Airline Networks," Springer Books, in: The Network Experience, chapter 10, pages 141-163, Springer.
- Bilotkach, Volodymyr & Mueller, Juergen & Németh, Adél, 2014. "Estimating the consumer welfare effects of de-hubbing: The case of Malév Hungarian Airlines," Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Elsevier, vol. 66(C), pages 51-65.
- Douglas W. Caves & Laurits R. Christensen & Michael W. Tretheway, 1984. "Economies of Density versus Economies of Scale: Why Trunk and Local Service Airline Costs Differ," RAND Journal of Economics, The RAND Corporation, vol. 15(4), pages 471-489, Winter.
- Michael E. Levine, 2011. "Regulation and the Nature of the Firm: The Case of U.S. Regional Airlines," Journal of Law and Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 54(S4), pages 229-248.
- Levin, Andrew & Lin, Chien-Fu & James Chu, Chia-Shang, 2002.
"Unit root tests in panel data: asymptotic and finite-sample properties,"
Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 108(1), pages 1-24, May.
- Tom Doan, "undated". "LEVINLIN: RATS procedure to perform Levin-Lin-Chu test for unit roots in panel data," Statistical Software Components RTS00242, Boston College Department of Economics.
Citations
Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
Cited by:
- Lawford, Steve & Mehmeti, Yll, 2020. "Cliques and a new measure of clustering: With application to U.S. domestic airlines," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 560(C).
- Renold, Manuel & Vollenweider, Janik & Mijović, Nemanja & Kuljanin, Jovana & Kalić, Milica, 2023. "Methodological framework for a deeper understanding of airline profit cycles in the context of disruptive exogenous impacts," Journal of Air Transport Management, Elsevier, vol. 106(C).
- Lonzius, Christopher & Lange, Anne, 2024. "Aircraft routing clusters and their impact on airline delays," Journal of Air Transport Management, Elsevier, vol. 114(C).
- Wong, Collin WH & Cheung, Tommy King Yin & Zhang, Anming, 2023. "A connectivity-based methodology for new air route identification," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 173(C).
- Roucolle, Chantal & Seregina, Tatiana & Urdanoz, Miguel, 2020.
"Network development and excess travel time,"
Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 94(C), pages 139-152.
- Chantal Roucolle & Tatiana Seregina & Miguel Urdanoz, 2020. "Network development and excess travel time," Post-Print hal-02865929, HAL.
- Klophaus, Richard & Yu, Chunyan, 2023. "Short-haul airline services in Europe and North America - A cross-business model and cross-continental analysis," Journal of Air Transport Management, Elsevier, vol. 109(C).
- Gaggero, Alberto A. & Piazza, Giovanni, 2021. "Multilayer networks and route entry into the airline industry: Evidence from the U.S. domestic market," Research in Transportation Economics, Elsevier, vol. 90(C).
- Zhang, Hanxiang & Czerny, Achim I. & Grimme, Wolfgang & Niemeier, Hans-Martin, 2023. "The big three EU Low Cost Carriers before and during the Covid-19 pandemic: Network overlaps and airfare effects," Research in Transportation Economics, Elsevier, vol. 97(C).
- Wang, Zhaojing & Jia, Limin & Ma, Xiaoping & Sun, Xuehui & Tang, Qianxue & Qian, Sina, 2022. "Accessibility-oriented performance evaluation of high-speed railways using a three-layer network model," Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Elsevier, vol. 222(C).
- Yang, Huijuan & Buire, Clara & Delahaye, Daniel & Le, Meilong, 2024. "A heuristic-based multi-objective flight schedule generation framework for airline connectivity optimisation in bank structure: An empirical study on Air China in Chengdu," Journal of Air Transport Management, Elsevier, vol. 116(C).
- Renan P. de Oliveira & Alessandro V. M. Oliveira & Gui Lohmann, 2021. "A Network-Design Analysis of Airline Business Model Adaptation in the Face of Competition and Consolidation," Transportation Science, INFORMS, vol. 55(2), pages 532-548, March.
- Hu, Yue & Dai, Liang & Fuellhart, Kurt & Witlox, Frank, 2024. "Examining competition among airline regarding route portfolios at domestic hubs under government regulation: The case of China's aviation market," Journal of Air Transport Management, Elsevier, vol. 116(C).
- Chiambaretto, Paul & Combe, Emmanuel, 2023. "Business model hybridization but heterogeneous economic performance: Insights from low-cost and legacy carriers in Europe," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 136(C), pages 83-97.
Most related items
These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.- Chantal Roucolle & Tatiana Seregina & Miguel Urdanoz, 2017. "Measuring Airline Networks: Comprehensive Indicators," Post-Print hal-01822938, HAL.
- Hu, Yue & Dai, Liang & Fuellhart, Kurt & Witlox, Frank, 2024. "Examining competition among airline regarding route portfolios at domestic hubs under government regulation: The case of China's aviation market," Journal of Air Transport Management, Elsevier, vol. 116(C).
- Chen, Jihui, 2024. "The pricing and quality effects of network structure choice: Evidence from American airlines’ international route cancellations," Journal of Air Transport Management, Elsevier, vol. 114(C).
- Wang, Chunan & Wang, Xiaoyu, 2019. "Airport congestion delays and airline networks," Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Elsevier, vol. 122(C), pages 328-349.
- Zhang, Anming & Czerny, Achim I., 2012. "Airports and airlines economics and policy: An interpretive review of recent research," Economics of Transportation, Elsevier, vol. 1(1), pages 15-34.
- Wang, Chunan & Wang, Xiaoyu, 2019. "Why do airlines prefer multi-hub networks?," Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Elsevier, vol. 124(C), pages 56-74.
- Anming Zhang & Yimin Zhang & Joseph A. Clougherty, 2011. "Competition and Regulation in Air Transport," Chapters, in: André de Palma & Robin Lindsey & Emile Quinet & Roger Vickerman (ed.), A Handbook of Transport Economics, chapter 35, Edward Elgar Publishing.
- Silva, Hugo E. & Verhoef, Erik T. & van den Berg, Vincent A.C., 2014.
"Airline route structure competition and network policy,"
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Elsevier, vol. 67(C), pages 320-343.
- Hugo Emilo Silva & Erik T. Verhoef & Vincent van den Berg, 2013. "Airline Route Structure Competition and Network Policy," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 13-189/VIII, Tinbergen Institute.
- Yanhao Wei, 2018. "Airline networks, traffic densities, and value of links," Quantitative Marketing and Economics (QME), Springer, vol. 16(3), pages 341-370, September.
- Fu, Xiaowen & Jin, Huan & Liu, Shaoxuan & Oum, Tae H. & Yan, Jia, 2019. "Exploring network effects of point-to-point networks: An investigation of the spatial patterns of Southwest Airlines’ network," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 76(C), pages 36-45.
- Tu, Ningwen & Li, Zhi-Chun & Fu, Xiaowen & Lei, Zheng, 2020. "Airline network competition in inter-continental market," Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Elsevier, vol. 143(C).
- Wang, Xiyan(Jamie), 2016. "1-Hub, 2-hub or fully connected network? A theoretical analysis of the optimality of airline network structure," Economics of Transportation, Elsevier, vol. 5(C), pages 12-23.
- Roucolle, Chantal & Seregina, Tatiana & Urdanoz, Miguel, 2020.
"Network development and excess travel time,"
Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 94(C), pages 139-152.
- Chantal Roucolle & Tatiana Seregina & Miguel Urdanoz, 2020. "Network development and excess travel time," Post-Print hal-02865929, HAL.
- Fageda, Xavier & Flores-Fillol, Ricardo, 2012. "On the optimal distribution of traffic of network airlines," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 56(6), pages 1164-1179.
- Lee, Kangoh, 2023. "Airline operational disruptions and loss-reduction investment," Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Elsevier, vol. 177(C).
- Gil, Ricard & Kim, Myongjin, 2021. "Does competition increase quality? Evidence from the US airline industry," International Journal of Industrial Organization, Elsevier, vol. 77(C).
- Jia Yan & Xiaowen Fu & Tae Oum, 2008. "Exploring Network Effects of Point-to-Point Networks: An Investigation of the Spatial Entry Patterns of Southwest Airlines," Working Papers 2008-21, School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University.
- Yetiskul, Emine & Matsushima, Kakuya & Kobayashi, Kiyoshi, 2005. "Airline Network Structure with Thick Market Externality," Research in Transportation Economics, Elsevier, vol. 13(1), pages 143-163, January.
- Adler, Nicole & Smilowitz, Karen, 2007. "Hub-and-spoke network alliances and mergers: Price-location competition in the airline industry," Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Elsevier, vol. 41(4), pages 394-409, May.
- Fageda, Xavier, 1975- & Flores-Fillol, Ricardo, 2010.
"Technology, business models and network structure in the airline industry,"
Working Papers
2072/151552, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Department of Economics.
- Xavier Fageda & Ricardo Flores-Fillol, 2010. "Technology, Business Models and Network Structure in the Airline Industry," Working Papers XREAP2010-14, Xarxa de Referència en Economia Aplicada (XREAP), revised Dec 2010.
More about this item
Keywords
Airline; Graph theory; Network; Principal Component Analysis (PCA); Indicators;All these keywords.
Statistics
Access and download statisticsCorrections
All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:transa:v:133:y:2020:i:c:p:303-324. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.
If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.
If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .
If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.
For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/547/description#description .
Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.