Title The Study of Origin-Destination Data Linkage for International Air Passenger and Cargo
Dept Transportation Engineering, Maritime and Air Transport Division
Year 2014
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Summary The development of international air passenger and cargo is dramatically affected by the changes in the global economic environment. The fluctuation of global economic conditions in recent years has formed an unstable demand pattern for air passenger and cargo traffic. However, Taiwan has achieved numerous breakthroughs in tourism limits, flight rights, and cross-strait relationship. The Taiwanese government further intends to enhance the competitiveness of the international air transportation in key airports, and the development of Taiwan’s civil aviation is expected to be another key breakthrough. This consequently shows the urgency for understanding air passenger and cargo traffic and their distribution. However, besides the statistics proposed by the Taiwan Civil Aeronautics Administration, many alternative free reports of passenger and cargo traffic analysis may be outdated by one year or more, and the content may focus overly on general- and macro-demand indexes. Based on the origin-destination (O-D) data linkage, this project aims to search for the ideal databases for exploring the possibility and availability of transferring related data into valuable information for policy-making. This project also attempts to examine subscribed databases to reveal the origin-destination distribution of air passengers and shipments in Taiwan.

　　For passenger O-D demands and their traveling paths, data provided by the MarketIS of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) were collected and analyzed; for cargo data, data relating to customs declarations and aircraft manifests provided by the Trade-Van Company were collected and analyzed. Analysis results showed that the largest percentage of passengers departing from or arriving at Taoyuan Airport took direct flights in 2012. In addition, results showed that Taoyuan Airport played an important role in passenger transfers on round trip to Los Angeles between key airports in Southeastern Asia. Subsequently, based on the number of passenger transfers, Hong Kong Airport is the main competitor to Taoyuan Airport, whereas other neighboring airports do not pose a threat to Taoyuan airport. For cargo performance, the number of exports is more than that of imports, but their total values were similar. The number of imports/exports in the free trade zone was comparatively less; however, the total value was comparatively higher. China displayed the highest number of exports, while Japan consolidated the largest number of imports. In addition, this study also investigated the entire supply chain system of key Taiwanese industries that utilize air transportation to comprehensively understand their air cargo operations. The main categories of freight handlings in Taiwan airports were also reported with analyzing the data provided by the Trade-Van Company.
Post date 2014/05/19
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