A Map Analysis of United States Airline Competition

Abstract

Intraduction T HE development and effects of airline competition in the UnitedStates have already stimulated a considerable postwar literature, dealing both directly and indirectly with the subject. 2 This study represents an addition to that literature from the viewpoint of geography.Modem geographers are interested in air and other forms of transport insofar as they represent aspects of the spatial organization of human activities and provide some evidence as to the nature of the complex interrelationships existing between places.From the point of view of students of air transportation, it is felt that the geographer's use of maps and his emphasis on individual route characteristics in considering problems of airline competition may provide a somewhat different view of a familiar situation.This particular paper presents a cartographic history of competitive change in airline traffic from 1940 to 1 This article is the result of work being carried on at the Transportation Center at Northwestern University.The material was developed to provide an empirical traffic analysis in connection with a current study dealing with the role of the Civil Aeronautics Board in the development of United States air transportation.

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