Abstract
The current outbreak of COVID-19 is an unprecedented event in air transportation. In this study, we investigate the impact of COVID-19 on global air transportation through the lens of complex networks different at different scales, ranging from worldwide airport networks where airports are nodes and links between airports exist when direct flights exist, to international country networks where countries are contracted as nodes, and to domestic airport networks for representative countries/regions. We focus on the spatial-temporal evolutionary dynamics of COVID-19 in air transportation networks, discovering hidden patterns on flight frequency reduction. Our study provides a comprehensive empirical analysis on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on aviation from a complex system perspective.
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Citation
Sun, X., Wandelt, S. and Zhang, A. (2020), "Dissection of a Singularity: The Impact of COVID-19 on Aviation", Journal of International Logistics and Trade, Vol. 18 No. 3, pp. 113-125. https://doi.org/10.24006/jilt.2020.18.3.113
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2020 Jungseok Research Institute of International Logistics and Trade
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