How transfer flights shape the structure of the airline network

Abstract In this paper, we analyse the gravity model in the global passenger air-transport network. We show that in the standard form, the model is inadequate for correctly describing the relationship between passenger flows and typical geo-economic variables that characterize connected countries. W...

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Autores principales: Tomasz Ryczkowski, Agata Fronczak, Piotr Fronczak
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Publicado: Nature Portfolio 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/9d7c1933f5624feb9a27453133adb211
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Sumario:Abstract In this paper, we analyse the gravity model in the global passenger air-transport network. We show that in the standard form, the model is inadequate for correctly describing the relationship between passenger flows and typical geo-economic variables that characterize connected countries. We propose a model for transfer flights that allows exploitation of these discrepancies in order to discover hidden subflows in the network. We illustrate its usefulness by retrieving the distance coefficient in the gravity model, which is one of the determinants of the globalization process. Finally, we discuss the correctness of the presented approach by comparing the distance coefficient to several well-known economic events.