Social benefit estimation of travel time shortage of air transport in Europe

Abstract

The desire for flying has inspired humanity for a long time. It was the Greek Ikaros from legendary, whose principal dream was to fly together with the birds. His attempts were hopeless from the beginning. The aim of our article is to investigate the positive effects of air passenger transportation moreover the mathematical modelling and presentation of the travel time shortening. Europe is modelled by travel time instead of travel distance between the airports, this way Europe´s map is transformed significantly.