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cord-255557-k0xat0u7	Mao, Liang	Modeling monthly flows of global air travel passengers: An open-access data resource	2015-10-31		.txt	text/plain	4783	254	55	title: Modeling monthly flows of global air travel passengers: An open-access data resource Here, these dynamics are modeled at a monthly scale to provide an open-access spatio-temporally resolved data source for research purposes (www.vbd-air.com/data). First, we refined existing models developed by Huang et al.(2013) to a finer temporal scale and predicted the monthly air passenger flows between directly connected airports worldwide. Second, we attempt to understand the monthly WAN as a dynamic by measuring the variation of air passenger flows by month, by route, and by airport. Our model views the air passenger flow as an outcome of spatial interactions between a pair of origin and destination airports, which can be formulated into a multiplicative function of node and link characteristics, as shown in Eq. Fig. 4 shows the monthly variation of the WAN in terms of its flight routes, passenger volume, and role of airports.	./cache/cord-255557-k0xat0u7.txt	./txt/cord-255557-k0xat0u7.txt