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An analysis of essential air service structure and performance |
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| Authors: | Timothy C. Matisziw Chieh-Lung LeeTony H. Grubesic |
| Affiliation: | a Department of Geography, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Informatics Institute, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211-6170, USA b Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211-6170, USA c Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Analysis Laboratory, College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA |
| Abstract: | The US federal Essential Air Service program was established to subsidize air service to communities unable to retain commercial carriers after airline deregulation in 1978. In this paper, the subsidized service between program communities and commercial hub airports is investigated relative to several Essential Air Service planning objectives. Specifically, observed community hubbing activity is compared with that modeled to minimize hub access cost and maximize community accessibility within the commercial air transport system. Results highlight trends in system performance relative to these planning objectives and indicate that significant potential exists for enhancing the efficiency of the program in light of limited resources. |
| Keywords: | Air transportation network design Route correspondence Rural air service Multi-objective planning |
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