Evaluation of Conditions and Factors for the Formation of Regional Air Hubs in Yekaterinburg, Tyumen, Novosibirsk and Krasnoyarsk

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The article proposes a methodology for assessing the conditions and factors that contribute to the formation of regional air hubs. As conditions, the following are considered: the transport and geographical location and local demand’s volume, as factors–airport throughput, representation of the base air carrier, infrastructure for transfer and the quality of the take-off and landing schedule. For the analysis, four airports: Koltsovo (Ekaterinburg), Roschino (Tyumen), Tolmachevo (Novosibirsk) and Emelyanovo (Krasnoyarsk) were selected that are most suitable for the formation of a regional air hub in them. These airports serve the largest cities and are located on the outskirts of their territorial groupings of cities facing other territorial groupings of cities between which the transfer will be carried out, which is the best combination for forming a regional hub. A regional hub is an airport in a non-capital city that specializes in servicing transfer transportation between different parts of the country. For each condition and factor, the actual or calculated value of the indicator is given and normalized from 0 to 1. Due to the constancy of conditions for a short period of time, in order to increase the potential for the formation of an air hub, the airport administration needs to work with factors, among which the most important, flexible in terms of speed and cost of implementation is the factor of the aviation schedule of take-offs and landings. According to the results of the analysis, the Yekaterinburg airport has optimal conditions for the formation of a hub, but the administration of the Novosibirsk airport operates with factors better, for example, it works on the convenience of transfer connections, interacting with the base air carrier.

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O. V. Sorokin

Faculty of Geography, Moscow State University

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Email: sorokin.oleg.98@mail.ru
Russia, Moscow

A. S. Voloshok

Faculty of Geography, Moscow State University

Email: sorokin.oleg.98@mail.ru
Russia, Moscow

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