INSIDE THE MECHANICS OF NETWORK DEVELOPMENT: HOW COMPETITION AND STRATEGY REORGANIZE EUROPEAN AIR TRAFFIC From: Journal of Air Transportation | Date: May 1, 2006| Author: Huber, Hans | Copyright University of Nebraska at Omaha 2006. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

ABSTRACT

Air transport forms complex networks that can be measured in order to understand its structural characteristics and functional properties. Recent models for network growth (i.e., preferential attachment, etc.) remain stochastic and do not seek to understand other network-specific mechanisms that may account for their development in a more microscopic way. Air traffic is made up of many constituent airlines that are either privately or publicly owned and that operate their own ...