Determinants of airport retail revenue: a review of literature

ABSTRACT

As the airport retail industry continues to grow due to increasing travel demands, airport operators are increasingly developing their retail revenue potential to ensure financial viability. This study aims to provide a review of airport retail literature and identify the salient factors associated with passenger shopping behaviour. The paper presents a review of contemporary airport retail literature, covering a total of 50 studies from 1998 to 2018. The review identified 26 factors, which could broadly be grouped into five categories: airport/operator related; passengers' demographic related; passengers’ travel related; passengers’ psychological related and passengers’ resources related. In addition to providing a summary of the statistically significant factors across studies, the review identifies and discusses potential approaches for future research. These include the importance of considering both “to spend or not” decision and how much to spend and how most empirical studies focussed on the former; the gap in empirical analysis on the impact of airport terminal design layout on retail performance; and the gap in application of general consumer shopping behavioural models to airport retail problems. The paper concludes with the suggestion that we can build on the existing studies to develop a hybrid approach to solve several of the identified gaps simultaneously.     

An application of a rank ordered probit modeling approach to understanding level of interest in autonomous vehicles

Surveys of behavior could benefit from information about people’s relative ranking of choice alternatives. Rank ordered data are often collected in stated preference surveys where respondents are asked to rank hypothetical alternatives (rather than choose a single alternative) to better understand their relative preferences. Despite the widespread interest in collecting data on and modeling people’s preferences for choice alternatives, rank-ordered data are rarely collected in travel surveys and very little progress has been made in the ability to rigorously model such data and obtain reliable parameter estimates. This paper presents a rank ordered probit modeling approach that overcomes limitations associated with prior approaches in analyzing rank ordered data. The efficacy of the rank ordered probit modeling methodology is demonstrated through an application of the model to understand preferences for alternative configurations of autonomous vehicles (AV) using the 2015 Puget Sound Regional Travel Study survey data set. The methodology offers behaviorally intuitive model results with a variety of socio-economic and demographic characteristics, including age, gender, household income, education, employment and household structure, significantly influencing preference for alternative configurations of AV adoption, ownership, and shared usage. The ability to estimate rank ordered probit models offers a pathway for better utilizing rank ordered data to understand preferences and recognize that choices may not be absolute in many instances.     

坚定不移抓改革 持之以恒求创新——访湖南龙骧巴士有限责任公司党委书记、总经理赵智勇

湖南龙骧巴士有限责任公司(以下简称龙骧巴士)是长沙市公共交通行业的骨干企业。自2005年公司组建成立以来,在长沙市委、市政府及行业主管部门的大力支持下,在公司全体员工的共同努力下,龙骧巴士坚定不移抓改革,持之以恒求创新,取得了跨越式的发展,为长沙公共客运市场的繁荣、稳定、发展做出了积极贡献。近日,本刊(以下记作"城市公共交通")专访了湖南龙骧巴士有限责任公司党委书记、总经理赵智勇。     

预应力钢筋混凝土T梁桥造价分析与应用

文章根据某省不同地形的高速公路采用预应力钢筋混凝土 T 梁桥结构的造价组成的统计分析， 即对分部工程造价及工程量组成进行分析、 对主要影响技术经济指标的基础工程、 上部构造、 下部构造单位桥梁面积的主要材料消耗和材料价格进行了详细分析， 以及材料价格的涨跌对预应力钢筋混凝土 T 梁桥造价技术经济指标的敏感性， 作为今后在高速公路前期工作中对该类结构快速估算投资提供参考依据。     

动车所电码化二次优化问题

针对动车组在太原动车所瞬间接收反向HU码导致控停的疑难问题,剖析了相关影响因素,分析了电路初次改进后仍存在的不足,提出了电路二次改进方案并付诸实施,解决了原有问题,保证了高铁的正常运营。     

Improving the coexistence of offshore wind farms and shipping: an international comparison of navigational risk assessment processes

The continued growth and evolution of the offshore wind industry, and the emergence of other novel marine uses such as wave and tidal generators, have upped the ante for spatial planners, as well as consenting and approval authorities in various coastal states. These stakeholders rely on processes such as navigational risk assessments (NRAs) to balance safety and efficiency requirements and to make optimal decisions over use of space. Given the increasingly complex and crowded seascape, however, there are some apprehensions about potential shortcomings in these NRA processes. There is also some concern that these inadequacies may lead to unsafe or inefficient marine spatial use. To understand how NRA processes can be improved further, a literature review is conducted, followed by a survey of respondents who are involved in the planning, consenting and/or approval of offshore wind farms across seven different countries. A summary of the NRA processes in these seven countries is presented, and several shortcomings are identified. Based on the findings of the survey, a list of recommendations is presented to enhance existing NRA processes—and to improve the coexistence of shipping and offshore wind farms (OWFs).     

公路工程限额设计与造价分析

分析了推行限额设计的必要性,从设计者的角度来剖析影响限额设计的主要因素,以及如何在设计阶段推行限额设计,探讨造价人员在整个设计阶段所起的作用,并结合一些工程实例来论证推行限额设计在造价控制中所产生的效果。     

港口对地区经济贡献度研究

阐述了港口相关经济活动的构成、界定了港口经济贡献的内涵和组成，介绍了港口经济贡献度的研究方法及指标体系．以华南地区某港为例，分析和计算了该港口对当地经济的直接、间接和波及贡献，并得出该港口对当地经济的总贡献度及其贡献度在当地经济发展中所占的比重．     

辽宁省公路"十一五"科技发展规划

主要介绍辽宁省公路“十一五”科技发展规划,内容包括公路科技现状与发展趋势、公路科技需求分析、公路科技发展目标与指导思想、公路科技的重点领域与关键技术,以及公路科技发展的保障措施。