Abstract Aircraft technology plays a vital role in the evolution of air transportation networks. The technical and economic characteristics combine to shape the network and the air service pattern on it. This relationship between technology and network structure is investigated for the case of short-haul, low-density air transportation. The characteristics of an actual short-haul region, the Southeastern United States, are used in a quasi-empirical study. It is found that smaller aircraft are always preferable to larger ones, provided such aircraft can be developed with operating economics that would permit comparable break-even load factors. The nature of the demand for air transportation is such that maintaining low break-even load factors need not only be achieved through technological changes in aircraft characteristics, but also charging higher fares in short-haul, low-density air transportation. The relationship between aircraft technology and network structure can be characterized; but we are still quite far from being able to make generalizations about it.
Aircraft technology and network structure in short-haul air transportation
Transportation Research Part A: General ; 15 , 4 ; 305-314
1980-06-20
10 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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