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A Typology of Rural Airports in the United States: Evaluating Network Accessibility

The Review of Regional Studies

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Title A Typology of Rural Airports in the United States: Evaluating Network Accessibility
 
Creator Wei, Fangwu
Grubesic, Tony
 
Subject transportation, rural airport, network, typology, planning
L93, L98
 
Description Since deregulation of the airline industry in 1978, carriers have largely focused their commercial service efforts on medium and large hub airports located in metropolitan areas with sufficient demand for air travel services. These profitable locations often cross-subsidize service to smaller hubs, which can function as feeder nodes/links to the larger hub-to-hub carrier network. However, as fuel and labor costs continue to increase for commercial carriers, reductions and terminations of air service in smaller rural markets are common, reducing carrier footprints and leaving many regions of the United States without viable air transport options. To be clear, this is not a new development. Many rural and remote airports are all too familiar with service reductions, which is why safeguards such as the Essential Air Service program continue to operate. The purpose of this paper is to explore the network and geographic context of airports in the U.S., evaluating relative accessibility and using this information to develop a typology of rural airports for the U.S. Implications for policy and transportation planning are discussed.
 
Publisher Southern Regional Science Association
 
Contributor —
 
Date 2015-08-10
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://journal.srsa.org/ojs/index.php/RRS/article/view/45.1.4
 
Source The Review of Regional Studies; Vol 45, No 1 (2015); 57-85
0048-749X
1553-0892
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://journal.srsa.org/ojs/index.php/RRS/article/view/45.1.4/pdf