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Catchment areas of small airports: A hybrid analysis of the Alps-Adriatic region
Journal of Airport Management,
12
(4),
399-411
(2018)
Abstract
This paper adopts a methodology initially developed for seaport choice and applies it to catchment areas for airports in part of the Adriatic region. Unlike much of the analysis of small airports in the region, which focuses on destination airports in the region, the work considers the demands for airports by residents. The analysis differs from most other studies of this sort by combining both hard data and that from surveys of airport users, to look at the attractiveness of various airports in the region to potential travellers. From a policy perspective, good information regarding the economic attractiveness of various facilities is lacking when it comes to deciding whether airports justify additional investment or whether they continue to be useful attributes to the aviation network. The findings also have relevance for the planning of surface transportation access to airports in the region.
Keywords: small airports; economic efficiency; data envelopment analysis; Adriatic airports; airport catchment areas
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Author's Biography
Kenneth Button has a PhD in economics from Loughborough University and is a university professor at George Mason University. Previously he was professor of applied economics and transport at Loughborough University, Villanova School of Business professor of transport and environment at the Tinbergen Institute, and MBP professor of economics at the National University of Singapore. He is a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and of both the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation and the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Researcher Award and the Herbert O. Whitten Service Award, and he has twice been elected president of the Transportation Research Forum. He has been awarded the Distinguished Scholarship Award by the Transportation and Public Utilities Group of the American Economics Association and the initial distinguished fellow of the Air Transport Research Society. He was founding associate editor of Transportation Research A: Policy and Practice and founding editor of Transportation Research D: Transport and Environment, and he served 20 years as editor of the Journal of Air Transport Management. He has given invited evidence to the US Congressional Transportation and Small Businesses Committees and to both the UK House of Lords and UK House of Commons Transport Committees. He has published, or has in press, some 100 academic books/edited volumes and over 400 papers in academic journals and edited works mainly in the fields of transportation and regulatory economics. His latest book is The Value of Applied Economics: The Life and Work of Arthur (A.J.) Brown.
Tomaž Kramberger has a PhD in computer science from the University of Maribor, where he is an associate professor and holds a chair for quantitative modelling in logistics within the Faculty of Logistics. His research areas are quantitative modelling in logistics, graph theory, arc and vehicle routing, and port choice analysis. His previous research has involved solving and examining the practical use of the route inspection problem. He is currently researching into port choice and port throughput. His previous work has embraced cooperation with researchers at universities in Antwerp, Belgium, as well as George Mason University in the USA. He is a member of the Slovenian Logistics Association, German Logistics Association, and International Association of Maritime Economists. In 2012 he was a senior visiting research fellow in the Centre for Maritime Studies at the National University of Singapore and since 2014 at George Mason University in Virginia. He is a joint author of Sustainable Logistics and Strategic Transportation Planning.
Simona Šinko is a master’s student at the Faculty of Logistics, University of Maribor, Slovenia. Before embarking on this programme, she completed an undergraduate programme at the university that involved writing a diploma thesis on autonomous vehicles. She is currently working on the subject of the current paper.
