Airline Network Development in Europe and Its Implications for Airport Planning

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2007 - Transportation - 287 pages
Guillaume Burghouwt explores airline network development and airport planning in the deregulated EU air transport market. The study provides airports with information about ways of dealing with increasing uncertainty resulting from changing airline network behaviour.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
Air Transport Networks
7
The Spatial Configuration of Airline Networks in Europe
37
The Temporal Configuration of Airline Networks in Europe
65
Intermezzo The SpatialTemporal Configuration of Airline Networks
93
The Impact of Airline Network Configurations on the EU Airport Hierarchy
149
Airport Planning in a FreeMarket Regime
177
Flexible Strategic Planning The Case of Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
209
Definitions of the HubandSpoke Network
257
Freedoms of the Air
258
Airline Classification
259
List of Respondents and Informants
260
Classification of World Regions
262
Summary of the EU Packages of Deregulation Measures
263
References
265
Index
283

Conclusions
255

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About the author (2007)

Guillaume Burghouwt is a researcher at Amsterdam Aviation Economics, the air transport research cluster of SEO Economic Research, and academic director of Airneth, the worldwide scientific network on aviation research and policy. His key expertise concerns airline network development, connectivity studies, scenario analyses and airport planning issues. He has been engaged in many research and consultancy projects on air transport and has organized various international conferences and seminars on air transport policy and research. Between 2000 and 2005 he worked as a researcher and lecturer at the Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. In February 2005 he completed his PhD research on airline network development and airport planning.

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