 Essential Air Service in the United StatesTony Grubesic, Ran Wei, Alan Murray and Fangwu Wei International Regional Science Review, 2016, vol. 39, issue 1, 108-130 Abstract: The Essential Air Service (EAS) program continues to receive federal funding to provide air travel access to rural communities in the United States. Regular assessment and evaluation of the performance of this program are important, given limited federal resources and fiduciary duties. In fact, this program has garnered significant attention through the years because it was originally conceived to offer temporary financial bridging for maintaining commercial air service in rural and remote communities following deregulation in 1978, yet has continued to be funded at increasing rates for over thirty-five years. This article undertakes a systematic analysis of the EAS program in terms of access and intended goals and objectives. A spatial optimization model is used to examine service performance of the existing system. Program insights as well as ways system efficiency that could be enhanced are highlighted for rural air transportation service in the United States. Keywords: rural development planning; economic growth and development; transportation and transit; urban and regional issues; spatial structure; location models; spatial analysis; geographic information science; optimization; cost–benefit analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:inrsre:v:39:y:2016:i:1:p:108-130 Access Statistics for this article More articles in International Regional Science Review |
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