アジア地域における国際航空ネットワークと高次ビジネス・サービス企業ネットワーク

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The main purpose of this paper is to explore the effect of business connectivity between cities on their international air traffic movements. Its focus of attention is Asia, where economic development is underpinned by a complex set of international flows of trade and investment. After describing the research of GaWC on world cities and city links, this paper incorporates a measure of business connections into an established gravity model to account for international air traffic movements. The paper also examines the correlation between international aviation networks and those of advanced producer service (APS) firms.

Results confirm that business connectivity between cities is a more important influence on the level of international air traffic movements from/to and within Asia and has a strong corelation to international air traffic links by network legacy carriers. The paper concludes with suggestions that possible incorporation of domestic air traffic movements and air links could enrich the insight of this approach.