A model for increasing airlines demand from non-airport regions by combining travel modes and influencing leakage
In countries like India, railways is the most preferred travel mode. It is cheap and has an all-pervasive network. At the same time, for covering long distances, railways often take in the excess of 15-16 hours to reach the destination. As a result, a part of the railway demand would prefer airlines in spite of the higher travel costs incurred. People living in small regions having no airport then have to travel to nearby larger cities to avail that option. This causes a leakage from railway demand. However, traveling to the nearby airport has a lot of associated hassles viz. increased leg, multiple bookings, increased waiting time, need for coordinating travel plans etc. The goal of this paper is to consider the possibility of combining two modes of transport, in regions where no airport exists. In recent times the increase in the number of low cost airlines has made air- travel prices more comparable to that of railways. This paper aims at modeling a situation where an airline might benefit by introducing services between non-airport and airport cities to increase its demand. This means a combined travel plan for the passenger with one single flight ticket. It might be possible to increase this leakage and thus add to the air demand.
Sourav Basu M.N. Pal
Fellow Programme Student in Operations Research and Systems Analysis, Indian Institute of Management Professor, Operations Management Group, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta,Kolkata, India
国际会议
2007 International Conference on Manufacturing & Service Operations Management(2007制造与服务运作管理国际学术会议)
北京
英文
2007-06-18（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）