Study finds one-stop flights are a big contributor to global connectivity
Study finds one-stop flights are a big contributor to global connectivity
- June 29, 2015
- Jan Brueckner, economics professor, is quoted in the San Diego News Escape June 29, 2015
From the Daily Bulletin:
Every time you’ve seen a plane take off or land at a hub airport, you’ve seen the
world growing more connected, according to a new model developed by researchers at
MIT. … Jan Brueckner, a professor of economics at the University of California at
Irvine, says the team’s new metric for air transport connectivity improves on existing
models, as it uses 20 years’ worth of data to track all possible trips out of a given
city, and also measures the “value” of each destination.
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