Airline and railway integration

By M. Givoni, David Banister. 2006

252 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Most of the transport literature only looks at mode alternatives in competition with each other, rather than exploring the potential for cooperation. This paper examines this possibility by making the case for aircraft and high speed train (HST) substitution under conditions of intermodal integration. In the model suggested, airlines use railway services as additional spokes in their network of services from a hub airport to complement and substitute for existing aircraft services. Airlines benefit from the slots that are freed and they can support mode substitution. Society gains from the social and economic benefits of better integrated transport services at a lower environmental cost. This paper examines this model of integration at Heathrow airport against the background of UK air transport policy and assesses the benefits and limitations of it. The conclusion reached is that some railway infrastructure should also be seen as part of the air transport infrastructure.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Strategy and Management

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/69e977f901134620b8c355780efb4c04fce91c2e

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Economics and Econometrics

In Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

In Strategy and Management

Citations in the corpus

Does European high-speed rail affect the current level of air services? An EU-wide analysis (2014, background): “Indeed, if HSR directly serves an airport and if airlines and rail companies cooperate, airlines can use HSR services as shorthaul feeders replacing their flights (Givoni and Banister, 2006; Chiambaretto and Decker, 2012).”
Air transport and high-speed rail competition: environmental implications and mitigation strategies (2016, background): “Again, these are mainly empirical papers (Cokasova, 2006; Givoni and Banister, 2006), with only a few works addressing this issue analytically (Jiang and Zhang, 2014; Jiang et al., 2015; Socorro and Viecens, 2013).”
Competition and cooperation between high-speed rail and air transportation services in Europe (2015, unknown): “Exceptions include Givoni and Banister (2006), who highlight the potential integration of the two modes, with airlines using railway services as additional spokes in their network of services from a hub airport to complement and substitute for existing aircraft services.”
High speed rail and tourism: Empirical evidence from Spain (2016, result): “In contrast to the above studies that have identified a substitution effect, a number of articles focus on the possible complementarities between modes (see Givoni and Banister, 2006).”