Investigating the impact of catchment areas of airports on estimating air travel demand: A case study of regional Western Australia

Heng Zhou, Xia, Jianhong (Cecilia), Qingzhou Luo, Gabi Nikolova, Jie Sun, Brett Hughes, Keone Kelobonye, Hui Wang and Torbjorn Falkmer

Journal of Air Transport Management, 2018, vol. 70, issue C, 91-103

Abstract: The aviation industry in Western Australia (WA) plays a vital role in the economic and social development of the state. However, accurate forecasts for passenger movements are not available to policy makers due to lack of relevant air travel demand information. The objective of this study is to estimate the domestic air passenger seat numbers between airport-pairs based on online flight information in regional WA based on a gravity model using Poisson pseudo-maximum likelihood estimation (PPML). Particularly, we aim to investigate the impact of distance, airfare, catchment areas, population, tourism and mining sector on forecasting air passenger seat numbers in order to inform and guide policy making.

Keywords: Aviation; Transport; Passenger; Thiessen polygon; Driving distance; Gravity model; Regression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jairtraman.2018.05.001

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