Airlines’ Network Analysis on an Air-Rail Multimodal System

Author (s): Delgado, L.; Gurtner, G.; Bolić, T; Trapote-Barreira, C.; Montlaur, A.
Journal: Journal of Open Aviation Science

Volume: 1
Date: 2024

Abstract:
This article explores the potential impact of short-haul flight bans in Spain. We build the rail and flightnetwork for the Spanish peninsula, merging openly available ADS-B-based data, for the reconstructionof air schedules and aircraft rotations, and rail operator data, for the modelling of the rail network. Wethen simulate a ban that would remove flights having a suitable train replacement,i.e.,representing a tripshorter than a threshold that we vary continuously up to 15-h. We study the impact in terms of 1) air routereduction, 2) aircraft utilisation and fleet downsizing for airlines, 3) airport infrastructure relief and railnetwork requirements, 4) CO2emissions and 5) possible itineraries and travel times for passengers. Wefind that a threshold of 3 hours (banning all flights with a direct rail alternative faster than three hours)presents some notable advantages in emissions while keeping the aircraft utilisation rate at an adequatelevel. Interestingly, passengers would then experience an increase in their itinerary options, with only amoderate increase in their total travel times.

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@Article{2024-JOAS-DGBTM,
title={Airlines’ Network Analysis on an Air-Rail Multimodal System}, 
volume={1}, url={https://journals.open.tudelft.nl/joas/article/view/7223}, 
DOI={10.59490/joas.2023.7223}, 
number={2}, 
journal={Journal of Open Aviation Science}, 
author={Delgado, Luis and Gurtner, Gérald and Bolić, Tatjana and Trapote-Barreira, Cesar and Montlaur, Adeline}, 
year={2023}}