Empirical Study on the impact of Urbanization on air Transport Industry in Shanghai

Abstract

Urbanization is a process of overall development on the aspects of population, economy, society and land. As the carrier of economic, social communication and logistics interaction between the city and outside world, air transport industry is greatly affected by urbanization. By choosing 1995-2012's statistical data of population, economy, society and land to evaluate the overall level of urbanization and 1995-2012's statistical data of air cargo traffic and air passenger traffic to indicate the development of air transport industry, this paper establishes a comprehensive evaluation system of urbanization based on the method of entropy, and use correlation index and regression analysis model to analyzes the relation between urbanization and air transport industry development in Shanghai. The results show that urbanization has a strong correlation with air transport industry in Shanghai, and the urbanization of population, economy and land gradually become the main force to drive the development of air transport industry, among which the urbanization of economy is the most important force.

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• http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/emcs-15.2015.129 under the license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by

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