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An Exploration in Airport Market Share and Accessibility with Twitter

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2015, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Geography.
Air networks play an important role in current US society. Measurements of airport accessibility and market share have become significant topics for both airlines and government. In previous research, the catchment areas of airports are drawn through the computation of airport accessibility measured by various models. Few real data have been collected to verify these models, however. Twitter, as one of the most popular online social networking services, has a rapidly growing user base. Nowadays, more than 600 million tweets are sent per day. Geo-located tweets account for about 1.7% of total tweets. This paper for the first time uses geotagged Tweets as the data source to explore airport market share and airport catchment division. Based on millions of carefully calibrated tweets, the research provides a map showing the catchment area of all the primary airports in the US with the county as the spatial unit of analysis. The map result of the market share of three airports, JFK, LGA and EWR in the New York and New Jersey region is compared with the findings of a passenger survey conducted in the same three airports by the port authority of the region. Both studies conclude with similar findings. Airport access distance and county access distance are further examined in the paper. In sum, this study shows the potential of user-participant data in social studies and provides an alternative way to conduct airport market analysis and related issues.
Morton O'Kelly (Advisor)
Harvey Miller (Committee Member)
Ningchuan Xiao (Committee Member)
61 p.

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  • Feng, M. (2015). An Exploration in Airport Market Share and Accessibility with Twitter [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1440366363

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Feng, Muzi. An Exploration in Airport Market Share and Accessibility with Twitter. 2015. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1440366363.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Feng, Muzi. "An Exploration in Airport Market Share and Accessibility with Twitter." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1440366363

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)