TY - JOUR
T1 - Connectivity at Chinese airports: The evolution and drivers
AU - Zhang, Yahua
AU - Zhang, Anming
AU - Zhu, Zhenran
AU - Wang, Kun
N1 - Funding Information:
We are very grateful to two anonymous referees for helpful comments. Partial financial support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (to Anming Zhang) and the UBC Centre for Transport Studies (to Zhenran Zhu) is gratefully acknowledged. A. Zhang would like to thank Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, for hospitality as a visiting professor when the paper was revised.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2017/9
Y1 - 2017/9
N2 - This study calculates the connectivity of 69 Chinese airports and identifies the underlying drivers of the variation in airport connectivity over a period 2005–2016. Our connectivity model incorporates multiple discount factors including capacity and velocity penalties to correct for the quality of a connection. We find that Chinese airports experienced a great increase in air connectivity over the study period. Beijing Capital, Shanghai Pudong and Guangzhou Baiyun are far ahead of other airports in terms of overall connectivity and especially so in terms of international connectivity. However, the growth of some tourism cities and small cities has been stagnant and they suffered losses of connectivity at times. Airport competition measured by HHI, average fare, investment in local city's fixed asset investment and airport facilities, macroeconomic conditions, and population are found to be closely associated with an airport's connectivity. We also find that the presence of low-cost carriers is conducive for air connectivity, while HSR has the effect of decreasing airport connectivity.
AB - This study calculates the connectivity of 69 Chinese airports and identifies the underlying drivers of the variation in airport connectivity over a period 2005–2016. Our connectivity model incorporates multiple discount factors including capacity and velocity penalties to correct for the quality of a connection. We find that Chinese airports experienced a great increase in air connectivity over the study period. Beijing Capital, Shanghai Pudong and Guangzhou Baiyun are far ahead of other airports in terms of overall connectivity and especially so in terms of international connectivity. However, the growth of some tourism cities and small cities has been stagnant and they suffered losses of connectivity at times. Airport competition measured by HHI, average fare, investment in local city's fixed asset investment and airport facilities, macroeconomic conditions, and population are found to be closely associated with an airport's connectivity. We also find that the presence of low-cost carriers is conducive for air connectivity, while HSR has the effect of decreasing airport connectivity.
KW - Airport connectivity
KW - Airport HHI
KW - Chinese airports
KW - Connectivity drivers
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85020244807&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.tra.2017.05.026
DO - 10.1016/j.tra.2017.05.026
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85020244807
SN - 0965-8564
VL - 103
SP - 490
EP - 508
JO - Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
JF - Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
ER -