Hub-and-Spoke Airline Network Design Method and Application Based on Gravity Model

Abstract:

Considering that lengthened transit airline route will reduce the quantity of customers in hub-and-spoke airline networks, the saved cost and reduced quantity of customers must be traded off when hub-and-spoke networks are designed. We apply gravity model to indicate the influence of quantity of customers due to different selection of hub airports. This paper presents a new network design method and mathematic optimization model whose object is to maximize total social net welfare. The hub-and-spoke network of Chinese fifteen cities is constructed using this method to demonstrate the effectiveness and practicability of this model.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 178-181)
• Pages: 1941-1946
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.178-181.1941
• Online since: May 2012
• Authors: Lie Han, Ning Zhang
• Keywords: Feeder Network, Gravity Model, Hub, Hub-and-Spoke Network, Trunk Network

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