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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September 30 2020
Dissection of a Singularity: The Impact of COVID-19 on Aviation Open Access
Xiaoqian Sun;
Xiaoqian Sun
1
School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beihang University
, Beijing
, China
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Sebastian Wandelt;
Sebastian Wandelt
*
1
School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beihang University
, Beijing
, China
*Corresponding author: Sebastian Wandelt School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China Tel: +86-1012356347 E-mail: wandelt@informatik.hu-berlin.de
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Anming Zhang
Anming Zhang
2
Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia
, Vancouver, BC
, Canada
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*Corresponding author: Sebastian Wandelt School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China Tel: +86-1012356347 E-mail: wandelt@informatik.hu-berlin.de
Publisher: Emerald Publishing on behalf of Jungseok Research Institute of International Logistics and Trade
Received:
August 01 2020
Revision Received:
September 06 2020
Accepted:
September 14 2020
Online ISSN: 2508-7592
Print ISSN: 1738-2122
© 2020 Jungseok Research Institute of International Logistics and Trade
2020
Jungseok Research Institute of International Logistics and Trade
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Journal of International Logistics and Trade (2020) 18 (3): 113–125.
Article history
Received:
August 01 2020
Revision Received:
September 06 2020
Accepted:
September 14 2020
Citation
Sun X, Wandelt S, 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, doi: https://doi.org/10.24006/jilt.2020.18.3.113
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