Assessing the wider economic benefits of air transport.

• This paper provides a systematic review of the growing research into the wider economic benefits, or WEBs, of air transport. • It analyses what constitutes a WEB, distinguishing them from related wider economic impacts (WEIs). • The paper provides a critical discussion of possible sources of WEBs and how WEBs might be evaluated. • The paper provides an overall review of the characteristics of suggested WEBs and ways of improving their measurement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]