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Spatial structure and network behaviour of strategic airline groups: A comparison between Europe and the United States

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Title Spatial structure and network behaviour of strategic airline groups: A comparison between Europe and the United States
 
Creator HUBER, H
 
Subject aviation
spatial concentration
gini decomposition
network competition
geopolitical traffic distribution
complex networks
 
Description The Gini-index has gained in legitimacy when measuring traffic distributions of air traffic as compared to other more established measures, such as Herfindahl's. In order to render the index more meaningful for policy-makers, a partial decomposition into strategic groups of airlines along distinct geopolitical scopes of air traffic is suggested. Air traffic across airports is considered an aggregate of complex networks that are subject to multiple constraints, such as geopolitics or technology. A multi-layered analytic approach accounts for network operators as economic agents that behave in strategic ways within these constraints. Our approach allows for comparing traffic distributions in Europe with that of the US and, in particular, introduces a normative component by isolating patterns in airlines' strategies that are likely to induce different degrees of spatial concentration and balanced traffic distributions within these common markets. (C) 2009
 
Publisher ELSEVIER SCI LTD
 
Date 2011-07-22T13:18:26Z
2011-12-26T12:52:26Z
2011-12-27T05:37:46Z
2011-07-22T13:18:26Z
2011-12-26T12:52:26Z
2011-12-27T05:37:46Z
2009
 
Type Article
 
Identifier TRANSPORT POLICY, 16(4), 151-162
0967-070X
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2009.04.002
http://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10054/6241
http://hdl.handle.net/10054/6241
 
Language en