This paper focused on the local government in the development of air transport in support of local decision-making methods. Firstly, this paper put forward to redefine the regional air transport considering air transport in our country's actual situation, and analyses regional aviation development in China's current status and trends on this basis. Then put forward to use the optimal combination of model to passenger and cargo throughput in the construction and development of regional airports. The model used the minimum sum of the squared error as the objective function to determine the weight factor of the combination model. This paper used the model to forecast the throughput of Changzhou Airport, the results obtained with a single predicted by the model results were compared with a good accuracy. This paper proposed to use the input-output method and Value Added method to evaluate the economic benefits of regional air transport and uses them to evaluate the benefits of Jiangsu province's regional air transport finding that the indirect benefits to far exceed the economic benefits created by its own. For the extension of the social benefits of regional air transport, this paper adopted expert opinion method to evaluate its social benefits.Finally, this paper designed evaluation system of the regional air transport comprehensive benefit and provided decision support for local governments by the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) analysis. |