Title: India’s air traffic system: network topologies, hierarchies and evolution
Speaker: Hans J. Huber, IIM Ahmedabad
Time: Monday Feb 15, 11:35 am
Venue: Classroom LT 002
Abstract: The paper examines multi-dimensional patterns of network characteristics for scheduled Indian airlines between 2006 and 2014. The well-known skewed traffic distribution which concentrates traffic around relatively few hub airports serves as the starting point for decomposing the air traffic system (ATS) into its constituent route types. Operations of distinct airlines along these route classes allows for classifying carrier’s network features as an embedded part of the system. Discussion of their role in it includes a spatial component. Inferences about development paths – past, present, future – of the Indian commercial ATS can be made.
Speaker Bio: Dr. Hans J. Huber is Associate Professor with the Public Systems Group at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He returned to India after spending 2 years as Senior Marie-Curie Research Fellow at CESUR (Instituto Superior Técnico – Lisboa). Before, he was Associate Professor at SJMSOM (Indian Institute of Technology –Bombay). His research interests cover areas of network strategy and industry structure, particularly in the context of aviation and PPPs. He holds a PhD from HEC (University of Geneva), an MBA from University of California at Berkeley and a 1st Staatsexamen (Law) from University of Regensburg, Germany.