How transfer flights shape the structure of the airline network.
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SUBMITTER: Ryczkowski T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5514031 | biostudies-other | 2017 Jul
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How transfer flights shape the structure of the airline network.
Ryczkowski Tomasz T Fronczak Agata A Fronczak Piotr P
Scientific reports 20170717 1
In this paper, we analyse the gravity model in the global passenger air-transport network. We show that in the standard form, the model is inadequate for correctly describing the relationship between passenger flows and typical geo-economic variables that characterize connected countries. We propose a model for transfer flights that allows exploitation of these discrepancies in order to discover hidden subflows in the network. We illustrate its usefulness by retrieving the distance coefficient i ...[more]
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