Guillaume Burghouwt

Job description: section head

Email: g.burghouwt@seo.nl

Telephone: 020-5251642

Guillaume Burghouwt has been working with AAE since October 2004, initially as senior researcher and from June 2010 as section head. In 2000, he graduated with honours from Utrecht University as an urban geographer, specialized in aviation and urban transport. The subject of his final thesis was the impact of the deregulation of the EU aviation market on airport connectivity. He further extended his knowledge of the air transport industry as a trainee for the CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, where he worked on a project concerning the privatization of Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. In addition, he was research-assistant at the same university during his study. As a research-assistant, he addressed the relationship between urban form and travel behaviour of individuals, using multivariate techniques.

In 2000, Guillaume joined the Faculty of Geographical Sciences of Utrecht University as an associate professor and PhD-researcher in air transport and infrastructure planning. His PhD-research involved the analysis of airline network behaviour in the deregulated EU aviation market, the impact of changing airline network behaviour on airport connectivity and the strategic planning of airport capacity in volatile, deregulated markets. He developed a special interest in connectivity indicators measuring airline and airport network performance, network concentration indices, volatility of airport traffic demand and the analysis of airport master planning processes. Amongst other things, he analysed the possibilities for a more flexible airport planning to cope with an increasingly volatile and uncertain market environment. The public defense of his PhD-thesis is scheduled for February 2005.

Joining AAE has enabled him to share his experience and interest in air transport research with several customers in the aviation industry. He has been involved, for example, in various air transport research projects, including studies in the field of scenario-building, strategic airport planning and tourism and aviation.

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