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Strategic airport planning / by Robert E. Caves, Geoffrey D. Gosling

Author
Caves, Robert E.
Published
Amsterdam ; New York : Pergamon, 1999.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiii, 451 pages)
Additional Creators
Gosling, Geoffrey David
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Language Note
English.
Contents
Introduction -- The evolving context of airport planning -- Towards a strategic view of planning -- Understanding aviation system behaviour -- Community response to airport development -- Economics of airport development -- Regional airport system planning -- National airport system planning -- United States experience -- The United Kingdom case -- The European Union case -- National airport planning case -- Competing roles for airports -- Towards improved strategic planning -- Conclusions.
Summary
The role of an airport within the air transport system used to be largely incontestable. The system is now being shaped less by the concept of social service and more by market forces. Progressive liberalisation of air transport, together with trends to privatisation and globalisation are causing the roles of airports to change, for planning to become increasingly decentralised, and for the traffic to become more volatile. Airports are increasingly in competition for markets. Yet the markets are limited, and airport expansion is made difficult by environmental pressures that push towards sustainable transport, and the need to justify investment. The book will examine these pressures in order to identify changes that are required to the airport planning process. The major issues to be discussed are: forecasting in an uncertain world; airport market share; airline network choices; political settings and their consequences; economic justification and viability; environmental impacts and their mitigation; cooperative planning; and physical planning challenges. The issues will be illuminated by case studies of representative airport systems: intercontinental gateways, metropolitan multi airport system, provincial and regional airports and developing country systems. The final section will bring together suggestions for ways in which the industry can move forward to a green and profitable future with an appropriate provision of new capacity.
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ISBN
0585474419 (electronic bk.)
9780585474410 (electronic bk.)
9781786359865
1786359863
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-443) and index.
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