Hub location in the South-Atlantic airline market A spatial competition game

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 865-888

  Martín, Juan Carlos ^a,b   Román, Concepción ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Deregulation; Hub and spoke networks; Location; Spatial competition

Indexed keywords

GAME THEORY; PUBLIC POLICY;

SPATIAL COMPETITION;

AIR TRANSPORTATION;

AIR TRANSPORTATION; AIRLINE INDUSTRY; COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); HUB AND SPOKE NETWORK; TRANSPORTATION ECONOMICS;

EID: 0141958696     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-8564(03)00060-0     Document Type: Article

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