Determinants of partnership levels in air-rail cooperation

This paper is the first empirical attempt to collect information for all existing air-rail cooperation cases around the world and analyze the factors that are related to their partnership levels with multiple statistical methods. We find that whether the rail station is located at the airport is the main factor affecting the air-rail partnership level. In particular, air-rail cooperation cases with co-location of airports and rail stations have significantly higher partnership level than the cases without. Furthermore, we also find that air-rail cooperation cases in Asia have significantly lower partnership levels compared with those in Europe.