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Airlines' network analysis on an air-rail multimodal system Delgado Muñoz, Luis Gurtner, Gérald Bolic, Tatjana Trapote Barreira, César Villardi de Montlaur, Adeline de Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Aeronàutica i espai Sustainable transportation Carbon dioxide mitigation System analysis Aeronautics, commercial -- Environmental aspects Multimodality Modal shift Network analysis Airline fleet Emission reduction Anàlisi de sistemes Gasos d'efecte hivernacle -- Mitigació Aviació comercial -- Aspectes ambientals This article explores the potential impact of short-haul flight bans in Spain. We build the rail and flight network for the Spanish peninsula, merging openly available ADS-B-based data, for the reconstruction of air schedules and aircraft rotations, and rail operator data, for the modelling of the rail network. We then simulate a ban that would remove flights having a suitable train replacement, \ie representing a trip shorter than a threshold that we vary continuously up to 15-h. We study the impact in terms of 1) air route reduction, 2) aircraft utilisation and fleet downsizing for airlines, 3) airport infrastructure relief and rail network requirements, 4) CO2 emissions, and 5) possible itineraries and travel times for passengers. We find that a threshold of 3 hours (banning all flights with a direct rail alternative faster than three hours) presents some notable advantages in emissions while keeping the aircraft utilisation rate at an adequate level. Interestingly, the passengers would then experience an increase in their itinerary options, with only a moderate increase in their total travelling times. This work is part of the MultiModX project which is funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe – SESAR 3 programme (Grant Agreement 101114815). Peer Reviewed Postprint (published version) 2024-03-30 Article https://journals.open.tudelft.nl/joas/article/view/7223/5905 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/HE/101114815/EU/Integrated Passenger-Centric Planning of Multimodal Transport Networks/MultiModX http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Open Access Attribution 4.0 International