This paper proposes a novel efficiency metric for weighted air transport networks (ATNs),
where the weight represents the connection strength between two airports concerning the …

Airport ranking studies have traditionally focused on throughput criteria such as passenger
and cargo volume, overlooking the importance of air transport network topology in assessing …

AENA in Spain and DHMI in Turkey operate a large majority of the airports in their respective
countries. These two airport operators share some similar characteristics, but also present …

This paper classifies and compares eight different connectivity models employed in air
transport literature and applies them to European airports. Traditional size-based measures …

Growing airport capacity constraint, airports' increasing attention to profits, and regional hub
formation in Northeast Asia suggest a need to study efficiency performance of the region's …

Throughout the last two decades, many studies have used complex network analysis
techniques to estimate the importance of airports for airline operations. Various node …

Within the past few years, the economy of Southeast Asia has been expanding rapidly with
the rise in demand for air transport services. International airports are important driving …

This paper studies the relationship between logistics, intermodality and airport efficiency. To
this end, using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), the efficiency of the 21 largest European …

The European air traffic network (ATN), consisting of a set of airports and area control
centres, is highly complex. The current indicator of its performance, air traffic flow …

This paper investigates the connectivity of the airport networks in China, Europe and US.
Our aim is to analyze which network is most beneficial to final passengers in terms of travel …