Status quo and challenges in air transport management research

Sebastian Wandelt (1) , Constantinos Antoniou (2) , Sebastian Birolini (3) , Daniel Delahaye (4) , Martin Dresner (5) , Xiaowen Fu (6) , Stefan Gössling (7) , Seock-Jin Hong (8) , Amedeo R Odoni (9) , Massimiliano Zanin (10) , Anming Zhang (11) , Hui Zhang (12) , Yahua Zhang (13) , Xiaoqian Sun (1)

1 BUAA - Beihang University
2 Technical University of Munich
3 UniBg - Università degli Studi di Bergamo = University of Bergamo
4 OPTIM - ENAC - Equipe Optim
5 University of Maryland [Baltimore]
6 POLYU - The Hong Kong Polytechnic University [Hong Kong]
7 Linnaeus University
8 UNT - University of North Texas
9 MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10 Instituto de Fisica Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos
11 UBC - University of British Columbia
12 THU - Tsinghua University [Beijing]
13 University of South Australia [Adelaide]

Air transport management research, concerned with all facets of aviation operations, policies, and strategies, is an essential element of making our aviation system more sustainable and preparing it for the challenges inherentto the present and future. Based on a data-driven categorization of almost 2,000 papers published on the subject, we discuss the status quo in air transport management research. Through our data-driven categorization we have identified 15 broad topics. For each topic, we provide a description of the state of the art and propose 2-3 challenges, respectively. Overall, our study provides a set of 35 challenges to the research community. Accordingly, we hope and believe that our study makes a valuable contribution, mainly by guiding the air transport management research community towards a delineated work plan on the research landscape of air transport as well as the present challenges, ultimately helping to improve the global air transport system.

Mots clés: Air transportation review challenges outlook

Domaines: Sciences de l'ingénieur [physics]

Sebastian Wandelt, Constantinos Antoniou, Sebastian Birolini, Daniel Delahaye, Martin Dresner, et al.. Status quo and challenges in air transport management research. Journal of the Air Transport Research Society, 2024, 2, ⟨10.1016/j.jatrs.2024.100014⟩. ⟨hal-04543167⟩