26th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences
including the 8th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conference
14 - 19 September 2008, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Paper ICAS 2008-10.4.2 (AIAA 2008-8888)

ANALYSIS OF INTERACTION BETWEEN AIR TRANSPORTATION AND ECONOMIC ACTIVITY

M. A. Ishutkina, R. J. Hansman
MIT, USA

Keywords: air transportation, economic activity, correlation

This paper uses both world-wide and country-level analysis to describe the relationship between air transportation and economic activity. In particular, we describe how economic, infrastructural, institutional and geographic factors affect the mapping of cargo and passenger flows to the enabled flows of labor, knowledge, investment, remittances, tourism and goods. We also identify the role of government and other exogenous drivers in this relationship.

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