Air Transport System

2. Activities

On this page, the element "Activities" will be presented to you.

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Same as in the last topics, activities are driving the system.

The activities require the presence of persons and goods at specific facilities that are specially designed to incorporate certain types of activities.

Each such activity creates the demand to ensure accession to the facility where the activity is scheduled to take place.
This creates the demand for offering transport options
When the transport option is realised, traffic is generated.
Thus all demand is a derived demand, which are all generated by the planning and execution of human activities.
So we as consumers drive the system, while the order is the steering medium.

On the next page, you will learn more about the kind of goods being transported by air.

Literature

Flämig, H., Sjöstedt, L., Hertel, C. (2002): Multimodal Transport: An Integrated Element for Last-Mile-Solutions? Proceedings, part 1; International Congress on Freight Transport Automation and Multimodality: Organisational and Technological Innovations. Delft, 23 & 24 May 2002. (modification of Sjöstedt 1996)