City based demand
bukatino2000:
Quote from: sami on August 08, 2009, 05:44:50 PM
I'm slowly gathering data on this and planning the system, however this is NOT expected anytime soon. If expected at all, I cannot tell yet.
But the first step has been to get list of cities worldwide and also their coordinates, and population... Here's a few pics where I've compared the results from a single country (Finland) to what Google is giving on their maps function. As you can see the city dots (location) is very close to what they should be on the map. The city location is of course needed as I must tie each airport to the cities and each airport would have a certain 'catchment' area... The system cannot be fully accurate but plan is to find data on cities with population of over 1000-10 000 people which would bring the countrywide accuracy of population to 90-95%.
But this is all just very early testing, the decision to start building the city based system instead of airport based is not even made or planned.
(the maps won't be ever visible to users, there's so much data to display .. but just showing here what kind of data the system is built on)
very good sami but please do not forget that statistical/economic indicators have to be available to players otherwise I see no chance/logic to take decisions or drive the company. For heaven's sake is not to earn money nowadays!
sami:
the economics of a country is a completely different module and that of course is needed for the city demand too.
Filippo:
Very cool!
But, what about airports which serve cities but that also have a huge catchmen area?
Like Malpensa (Milan - Italy). That airport serves basically all the north of Italy, not just Milan.
CX717:
My very ideal imagine: ;D
probably they will pick the closest airport(AIRPORT A) that serve the flight to AIRPORT C
if the closest airport are too far away from the city,they will pick another closest airport(AIRPORT B)with connection to AIRPORT A.
that generate AIRPORT A to AIRPORT B demands,and also boost the demand from AIRPORT A to AIRPORT C(connecting passenger).
we can have different kinds of passenger AI,"wealth passenger" AI,who aim for luxury."business traveller"AI,who aim for flight timing,fastest flight,late departure and morning arrival.
"budget travller"AI,who aim for lowest fares,they don't care about comfort."normal"AI,they aim for decent service,and normal fares.etc.......
Samo:
I know that city based demand is planned. But there's another problem - what about close airports which are in different cities (sometimes even countries), but passengers are popular for people from both cities.
For example, Bratislava and Vienna. That airport are about 59km from each other and people from both cities use both airports... Vienna is large airport and provide many destinations which are not available in Bratislava (that's why many people from Bratislava use Vienna) and on other hand, Bratislava airport is cheaper and is more attractive for low costs like Ryanair and therefore, passengers from Vienna which are looking for low fares often use Bratislava...
So, any ideas how situations like this could be implented?
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