Daniel Albalate (p), Xavier Fageda

Jinhee Kim

Secondary airports have played a key role in the development of both low-cost carriers and the tourism industry in recent decades. Although they are usually further from tourists’ main destination/origin, low-cost carriers take advantage of lower fares to exploit tourists’ lower time valuation. Nonetheless, efficient surface commuting is a key attribute of airport accessibility and a source of relative attractiveness in multi-airport systems. Low-cost airlines have recently changed their strategic behavior by opting to spread their presence at primary airports, which represents a challenge for secondary airports that have both declining traffic and high dependency on low-cost carriers. In this paper we evaluate the role of private and public transportation commuting time efficiency in the quarterly market share of secondary airports for a sample of European multi-airport systems between 2018 and 2020. Our results show that relative commuting efficiency– whether public or private –is a determinant of traffic distribution in multi-airport systems. This suggests that traffic ‘leakage’ towards major airports may be more severe in secondary airports with relatively inefficient commuting options. Further, we do not find any generalized impact of Covid-19 on the distribution of traffic among multi-airport systems.

Hyukseong Lee, Jinhee Kim (p), Sungju Seo, Minaa Sim, Jaeeun Kim

Daniel Albalate

This study investigated the participants of a demonstration project of micro-electric vehicle (micro-EV) sharing services on Jeju Island, South Korea. This demonstration project has been conducted jointly by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy of Korea and SOCAR since 2019. The project aims to verify the impact and business feasibility of micro-EV sharing services using micro-EVs. Their usage patterns and satisfaction levels were thoroughly explored by analyzing multiple data sources collected via an extensive travel diary survey, in-depth interviews, satisfaction and importance surveys, and real-time micro-EV usage records. We employed various measures to investigate users' behaviors and satisfaction using the micro-EV sharing service. The results demonsrate that micro-EVs tend to be chiefly used for short-distance trips; the average travel time per trip was approximately 9 min, and the spatial distribution of trips was highly concentrated in areas where houses and workplaces are located. According to the quantitative and qualitative analysis of user satisfaction, the most important factor affecting this limited range of usage was the physical anxiety of using the vehicle because of its size and mechanical quality. We expect our results to contribute to widening the knowledge on the possible coverage of micro-EV sharing services in daily activities and factors affecting this coverage.