Long distance accessibility by air transportation: a literature review

Figures & data

Figure 1. Relationships among accessibility and its components (Geurs & van Wee, 2004).

Figure 2. Literature collection process and number of results per each step.

Table 1. Transport mode(s) included and geographical scope of collected literature.

Reference	Transportation mode	Geographical scope
Toh (1984)	Air	International
Irwin and Kasarda (1991)	Air	U.S. domestic
Bruinsma and Rietveld (1993)	Air, road, rail	42 agglomerations in Europe
Chou (1993a)	Air	U.S. domestic
Chou (1993b)	Air	U.S. domestic
Shaw and Ivy (1994)	Air	U.S. domestic
Bruinsma and Rietveld (1998)	Multimodal	Europe
Bowen (2000)	Air	Southeast Asia, connected regions
Bowen (2002)	Air	Global
Macchiavelli and Vaghi (2003)	Air	Mediterranean basin region
Matthiessen (2004)	Air	Baltic Sea area
Reynolds-Feighan and McLay (2006)	Air	Global
Spiekermann and Wegener (2006)	Multimodal	Europe
Grubesic and Zook (2007)	Air	U.S. domestic
Yamaguchi (2007)	Air	Japan domestic
Hsu and Shih (2008)	Air	Global
Sellner and Nagl (2010)	Air	Austria, international
Halpern and Bråthen (2011)	Air	Norway domestic, international
Matisziw et al. (2012)	Air	U.S. domestic
Redondi et al. (2012)	Air	International
Banister and Givoni (2013)	HSR, multimodal	EU-27
Cao et al. (2013)	Air, HSR, rail	China
Hesse et al. (2013)	Air	EU-27
Mukkala and Tervo (2013)	Multimodal	Europe
Burghouwt and Redondi (2013)	Air	Europe
Redondi et al. (2013)	Air	Europe, international
Borodako and Rudnicki (2014)	Air, rail	Central & East Europe, international
Sheard (2014)	Air, road	U.S. domestic
Allroggen et al. (2015)	Air	Global
Cattaneo et al. (2016)	Air	Italy, domestic
Vega and Reynolds-Feighan (2016)	Air, road	Ireland, international
Beria et al. (2017)	Multimodal	Italy, domestic
Park and O’Kelly (2017)	Air	U.S. domestic
Dai et al. (2018)	Air	Southeast Asia
Jose and Ram (2018)	Air	India, domestic
Laurino et al. (2019)	Air, car, bus, rail	Italy, domestic
Sun and Lin (2019)	Air	Global
Gibbons and Wu	Air	China domestic
Mueller and Aravazhi (2020)	Air	Scandinavian region, international
Mueller (2021)	Air	Europe, U.S. domestic
Avogadro et al. (2021)	Air, HSR	Europe
Bansal and Sen (2022)	Air	India
Liao et al. (2022)	Air	Hong Kong, China, international
Pot and Koster (2022)	Air	Europe

Table 2. Timeline of accessibility literature publications by research approach.

	Transportation network connectivity-based approaches	Gravity-based approaches	Explorative studies	Generic approaches
1984	Toh (1984)
1991	Irwin and Kasarda (1991)
1993	Chou (1993a)	Bruinsma and Rietveld (1993)
	Chou (1993b)
1994	Shaw and Ivy (1994)
1998			Bruinsma and Rietveld (1998)
2000	Bowen (2000)
2002	Bowen (2002)
2003	Macchiavelli and Vaghi (2003)
2004			Matthiessen (2004)
2006	Reynolds-Feighan and McLay (2006)	Spiekermann and Wegener (2006)
2007	Grubesic and Zook (2007)			Yamaguchi (2007)
2008		Hsu and Shih (2008)
2010				Sellner and Nagl (2010)
2011			Halpern and Bråthen (2011)
2012	Matisziw et al. (2012)
	Redondi et al. (2012)
2013	Burghouwt and Redondi (2013)	Cao et al. (2013)	Banister and Givoni (2013)	Redondi et al. (2013)
		Hesse et al. (2013)		Mukkala and Tervo (2013)
2014	Borodako and Rudnicki (2014)
	Sheard (2014)
2015	Allroggen et al. (2015)
2016		Cattaneo et al. (2016)		Vega and Reynolds-Feighan (2016)
2017		Beria et al. (2017)		Park and O'Kelly (2017)
				Laurino et al. (2019)
2018	Dai et al. (2018)
	Jose and Ram (2018)
2019		Sun and Lin (2019)
2020	Mueller and Aravazhi (2020)			Gibbons and Wu (2020)
2021	Mueller (2021)	Avogadro et al. (2021)
2022	Bansal and Sen (2022)	Bansal and Sen (2022)
	Liao et al. (2022)	Pot and Koster (2022)

Notes: Bold italic font: studies with perceived accessibility approach.

Table 3. Research aims of AAT studies in collected literature.

Research Aims	Literature
Study accessibility as an air transportation network performance indicator	Toh (1984)
	Chou (1993a)
	Chou (1993b)
	Shaw and Ivy (1994)
	Bowen (2000)
	Bowen (2002)
	Hsu and Shih (2008)
	Matisziw et al. (2012)
	Burghouwt and Redondi (2013)
	Allroggen et al. (2015)
	Dai et al. (2018)
	Jose and Ram (2018)
	Bansal and Sen (2022)
Assess locational accessibility levels	Bruinsma and Rietveld (1993)
	Bruinsma and Rietveld (1998)
	Cao et al. (2013)
	Redondi et al. (2013)
	Hesse et al. (2013)
	Borodako and Rudnicki (2014)
	Vega and Reynolds-Feighan (2016)
	Beria et al. (2017)
	Laurino et al. (2019)
	Mueller (2021)
	Avogadro et al. (2021)
	Bansal and Sen (2022)
Examine relationships between accessibility and economic growth/regional development	Irwin and Kasarda (1991)
	Matthiessen (2004)
	Spiekermann and Wegener (2006)
	Yamaguchi (2007)
	Sellner and Nagl (2010)
	Mukkala and Tervo (2013)
	Sheard (2014)
	Cattaneo et al. (2016)
	Gibbons and Wu (2020)
	Pot and Koster (2022)
Assess accessibility as airport/airline performance indicators	Reynolds-Feighan and McLay (2006)
	Grubesic and Zook (2007)
	Redondi et al. (2012)
	Park and O’Kelly (2017)
	Mueller and Aravazhi (2020)
	Liao et al. (2022)
Study accessibility as a contributing factor to the tourism industry	Macchiavelli and Vaghi (2003)
	Sun and Lin (2019)
Explore definition/concept of AAT	Halpern and Bråthen (2011)
	Banister and Givoni (2013)

Table 4. Number of papers in collected literature that assessed accessibility from each perspective.

Perspective	Frequency of departing from a perspective	Frequency of adoption of ingredients of a perspective
Infrastructure-based	32	44
Location-based	12	33
Person-based	0	5
Utility-based	0	1
Perceived accessibility unrelated to person-based or utility-based perspectives	0	9

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