The geography of Australian internal air passenger services, March 1967, and supplement, A geographer's approach to the problem of the future of the Australian two-airline policy, November 1968

Abstract

Transport geography is concerned with patterns of movements on the earth's surface and the distributions of interrelated phenomena that have bearing on these movements. Whereas freight movements basically reflect commodity availability in one area and demand in another, passenger movements are more difficult to study. Being predominantly two-way movements, they represent the aggregates of the choices of many different individuals and the reasons for making these journeys are often known only to the travellers themselves. Generally speaking, these personal interactions can be considered to be made either for reasons of similarity of interest (e.g. personal family visits, travel due to the person's occupation, etc.) or of dissimilarity of interest (holiday travel, travel to consult specialised services, etc.). Because passenger travel is the aggregate of the needs of many individual persons it is to be expected that the greater the population of any centre, the greater is its overall demand for passenger travel.