Author(s)

Linfeng Zhang, Hongfei Jia, Youyu Wang, Lei Bian, DS Wang, Hongwu Tang, Manhui Bo, Kailun Zhang, Zhilu Yuan

Corresponding Author

Linfeng Zhang

ABSTRACT

Based on passengers' travel itineraries of domestic flights provided by the Umetrip, this study analyzes the siphon effect among four main airports(PEK、NAY、SJW and TSN) in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region, which is also named the Jing-Jin-Ji (JJJ) area. In this paper, we find that Beijing's two airports (PEK and NAY) have the most substantial siphon effect among these four airports, while SJW has the weakest siphon effect. It can be seen that Tianjin has narrowed its gap with PEK in attracting nonresidential passengers. However, the gap between SJW and others is still getting larger. Compared with the data of the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) region, passengers’ distribution of the JJJ has presented a more seriously imbalanced status. Overall, this study points out that the situation of SJW is still far from optimistic. We suggest that SJW should take full advantage of short-distance transportation tools to attract passengers from Beijing and Tianjin, but the most important thing is to slow the trend of brain-drain through strengthening the competitiveness of the province itself.

KEYWORDS

The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region Integration, Regional Development, Airports, Siphon Effect