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Jan 25, 2006 · The study of air transportation within the field of transportation geography and the larger discipline of geography is important as geographers use air transportation to help describe concepts such as connectivity and linkages, development patterns at various scales, and the global economy.
Jan 11, 2016 · John T. Bowen's chapter on the economic geography of air transport is a comprehensive essay that addresses such themes as the evolution of the hub-and-spoke system, the emergence of low-cost carriers (LCCs), and the greater importance through time of leisure travel and its regional variability.
- Michael S. Yoder
- 2016
Drawing on ideas from the newlyemergent ‘mobilities' paradigm, this paper identifies some alternative geographies of air travel, arguing that socially- and culturally-inflected perspectives may help reveal the iniquitous imprints of global air travel at a variety of spatial scales.
- The Rise of Air Transportation
- Civil Aviation and Activity Spaces
- The Geography of Airline Networks
- Airlines, Hubs, and Alliances
- The Future of Flight
Air transportation was slow to take off after the Wright Brothersbreakthrough at Kitty Hawk in 1903. More than a decade passed before the first faltering efforts to launch scheduled passenger services. On January 1, 1914, the world’s inaugural scheduled flight with a paying passenger hopped across the bay separating Tampa and St. Petersburg, Florid...
Air transportation has transformed society at scales ranging from the local to the global. Aviation has made economic and social activities in many parts of the world faster, more interconnected, varied, and more affluent. Still, those gains have come with externalities such as congestion and environmental challenges.
Theoretically, air transport enjoys greater freedom of route choicethan most other modes. Airline routes span oceans, the highest mountain chains, the most forbidding deserts, and other physical barriers to surface transport. Yet, while it is true that the mode is less restricted than land transport to specific rights of way, it is nevertheless mor...
There are several thousand airlines in the world, most of them very small. Only about 1,400 are members of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), and even among IATA members, a relative handful of airlines account for most of the traffic. In 2018, the top 25 airlines accounted for just over 50 percent of available seat-kilometers (ASKs...
The COVID-19 pandemic has been the most severe crisis in civil aviation since World War II. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has estimated worldwide airline industry losses at $84 billion for 2020. By April 2020, air traffic in most markets plummeted by more than 90%versus the same time in the previous year. By mid-2022, however, ...
Dec 1, 2007 · Drawing on ideas from the newly-emergent `mobilities' paradigm, we use this article to flag up some alternative geographies of air travel, arguing that socially- and culturally-inflected...
The book is divided broadly into two sections. The first is thematic and includes eight essays that apply essential approaches of the discipline of geography to air transport. The physical geographic aspects of air transport, such as design of airports to accommodate specific wind directions or physical settings, are deliberately not included.
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DEFINITION. The term “surface transport” refers to travel on the surface of the Earth, whether by road, river, ocean, trail, or in a no-mode area. The term is used in contrast to air transport. Excluding submarines, people travel either by air or by surface.
