Journal article
Essential Air Service: a local, geographic market perspective
Journal of transport geography, v 30, pp 17-25
01 Jun 2013
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Abstract
Essential Air Service (EAS) is a federally subsidized program in the United States that provides air transport connections to rural and remote locations. Critics suggest that EAS is too expensive and that many of its airports are underutilized. Proponents of the program argue that connections between rural locales and larger urban hubs help maintain local economic activity. The purpose of this paper is to examine the variations in local geographic markets and their impacts on service levels. Specifically, we use exploratory and confirmatory statistical approaches combined with spatial analysis to examine the geographic, demographic, socio-economic and local business determinants that contribute to commercial flight activity from EAS airports. Results suggest that geographic proximity to larger hubs, subsidy levels and the local population of the EAS catchment area are critical factors in flight activity at EAS airports.
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- Title
- Essential Air Service: a local, geographic market perspective
- Creators
- Tony H. Grubesic - Drexel University, College of Information Science and Technology (1995-2013)Fangwu Wei - Drexel University, College of Information Science and Technology (1995-2013)
- Publication Details
- Journal of transport geography, v 30, pp 17-25
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Number of pages
- 9
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- College of Information Science and Technology (1995-2013)
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000321177400003
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84875774156
- Other Identifier
- 991019357627304721
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- Economics
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