Empirical Analysis for Hub-Airport Choice as International Transit Point in Japan: Narita, Kansai, and Chubu

摘要

The purpose of this paper is to find out the motivations of passengers makingrntransit on an international flight at Narita, Kansai and Chubu airport in Japan. Thisrnpaper uses the exclusive micro data of “International Passengers Traffic MovementrnSurvey” in 2009 and 2010 conducted by Ministry of Ministry of Land, Infrastructure,rnTransport and Tourism, Japan. It enables us to observe unique characteristics in eachrnairport that motivates passengers to choose an airport as one’s transit point: Connectionrntime, Alliance network, Airport Facility and so on. By using this data, this paperrnanalyzes the factors for Hub-Airport Choice as International Transit Point in Japanrnbased on Multi-nomiallogit model with a consideration of endogeneity among variables.rnThe result gives us implications to improve the attractiveness of the airports as anrninternational transit point while there has a severe intra-airport competition in NortheastrnAsia region.