Flying where you dont want to go: An empirical analysis of hubs in the global airline network

被引:64
作者
Derudder, Ben [1 ]
Devriendt, Lomme [1 ]
Witlox, Frank [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Ghent, Dept Geog, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
关键词
global cities; network cities; hub-and-spoke networks; airline data;
D O I
10.1111/j.1467-9663.2007.00399.x
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
This paper aims to contribute to the literature on the rise of so-called 'network cities' through an empirical analysis of hubs in the global airline network. Standard airline databases do not feature the actual routes flown by passengers, and therefore, a new and previously untapped database is introduced. The employed data are transnational and feature origin/destination statistics with additional information on intermediate stops (if any), which allows a thorough assessment of hub structures in the global airline network. The first part of the empirical analysis presents a threefold hub assessment, i.e. (i) an overview of the major hubs in absolute terms, (ii) a similar overview of hubs in relative terms, and (iii) a measure that focuses on the number of cities that make intense use of a hub. The second part of the empirical analysis focuses on some aspects of the spatiality of hub-and-spoke organisation. This is achieved through an examination of the proportion of 'regional' hub passengers and some notable case studies.
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