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How transfer flights shape structure of the airline network

Piotr Fronczak ,  Tomasz Ryczkowski ,  Agata Fronczak 

Warsaw University of Technology, Koszykowa 75, Warsaw 00-662, Poland

Abstract

Here, we present the analysis of the gravity model in the world passenger air-transport network. We show that in the standard form the model is inadequate to correctly describe the relationship between passenger flows and typical geo-economic variables that characterize connected countries. We propose a model of transfer flights which allows to exploit these discrepancies to discover hidden subflows in the network. We illustrate its usefulness by retrieving the distance coefficient in the gravity model which is one of the determinants of the globalization process. Finally, we discuss the correctness of the presented approach by comparing the distance coefficient to several well known economical events.

 

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Presentation: Poster at Econophysics Colloquium 2017, Symposium A, by Piotr Fronczak
See On-line Journal of Econophysics Colloquium 2017

Submitted: 2017-04-12 08:19
Revised:   2017-04-12 08:19