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Airline and railway disintegration in China: the case of Shanghai Hongqiao Integrated Transport Hub

door travel time) aircraft services are of course considerably faster, with only on two routes

(Jinan and Wenzhou) the difference is less than 3 h. Assuming a check-in time of two hours
for flights and only 30 min for rail in China, flights are still faster by a margin on all routes
(Table 4). Thus, travelling by HSR might be competitive to the flight in terms of travel time
only if the railway station is located in the city centre while the airport considerably far
from the centre. In addition to travel time, comfort factors should also be considered in the
comparison between air and rail and the advantage here is clearly with travelling by HSR,
which provides the conditions to use travel time for work, rest, etc.

Table 5. potential runway capacity to be released at Hongqiao airport following mode
substitution.

Runway utilization
Runway utilization at Hongqiao Airport
(Average daily in 2013)
Total daily: ATM: 332; Seats: 48767 Route level Cumulative
Destina- Distance ATM Seats Aircraft ATM (%) Seats (%) ATM (%) Seats (%)
tion
nanjing 273 12 444 37 3.6 0.9 3.6 0.9
Tunxi 374 1 162 162 0.3 0.3 3.9 1.2
Wenzhou* 418 3 474 158 0.9 1.0 4.8 2.2
Chizhou 447 1 158 158 0.3 0.3 5.1 2.5
Huai’an 450 1 37 37 0.3 0.1 5.4 2.6
Lianyungang 468 2 324 162 0.6 0.7 6.0 3.3
Wuyishan 532 1 158 158 0.3 0.3 6.3 3.6
Linyi 541 2 324 162 0.6 0.7 6.9 4.3
Xuzhou 554 1 158 158 0.3 0.3 7.2 4.6
anqing 555 1 21 21 0.3 0.0 7.5 4.6
Jingdezhen 589 1 158 158 0.3 0.3 7.8 4.9
Fuyang 606 1 162 162 0.3 0.3 8.1 5.3
nanchang* 632 4 632 158 1.2 1.3 9.3 6.6
Wuhan* 676 6 894 149 1.8 1.8 11.1 8.4
Fuzhou* 678 9 1458 162 2.7 3.0 13.8 11.4
Qingdao 693 13 2054 158 3.9 4.2 17.8 15.6
Jining 715 1 162 162 0.3 0.3 18.1 15.9
Jinjiang 763 5 810 162 1.5 1.7 19.6 17.6
Longyan* 784 1 158 158 0.3 0.3 19.9 17.9
Yichun 805 1 162 162 0.3 0.3 20.2 18.2
Xiamen* 827 22 3564 162 6.6 7.3 26.8 25.5
Ji’an 833 1 162 162 0.3 0.3 27.1 25.9
Yantai 846 7 1134 162 2.1 2.3 29.2 28.2
Jinan* 852 3 486 162 0.9 1.0 30.1 29.2
Ganzhou 854 1 158 158 0.3 0.3 30.4 29.5
Zhengzhou* 858 9 1458 162 2.7 3.0 33.1 32.5
Jinggangshan 860 1 180 180 0.3 0.4 33.4 32.9
Total/ave. 111 16052 145 33.4 32.9

Note: Distance in km; aTM = air Traffic Movements (take-off only); aircraft = average aircraft size. ave. = average, Bold cities – destinations
*
within the YrD area. – routes where there is currently a Hsr service.

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