Choice of air cargo transshipment airport: an application to air cargo traffic to/from Northeast Asia

Hiroshi Ohashi, Tae-Seung Kim, Tae Hoon Oum and Chunyan Yu

Journal of Air Transport Management, 2005, vol. 11, issue 3, 149-159

Abstract: Based on a unique data set of 760 air cargo transshipment routings to/from the Northeast Asian region in 2000, this paper applies an aggregate form of a multinomial logit model to identify the critical factors influencing air cargo transshipment route choice decisions. The analysis focuses on the trade-off between monetary cost and time cost while considering other variables relevant for choice of transshipment airport. The estimation method considers the presence of unobserved attributes, and corrects for resulting endogeneity via a two-stage least-squares estimation using instrumental variables. Our empirical results show that choice of the air cargo transshipment hub is more sensitive to time cost than the monetary costs such as landing fees and line-haul price. For example, our simulation results suggest that a 1-h reduction in total transport and processing time for a particular origin–destination air cargo traffic would be more effective than a $1000 reduction in airport charges. This suggests that it is important to reduce air cargo connecting time at an airport via adequate investment in capacity and automation even by increasing landing and other airport charges.

Keywords: Air cargo; Transshipment; Route choice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jairtraman.2004.08.004

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