Strategic Airport Planning / Edition 1

by Robert E. Caves, Geoffrey David Gosling

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780080427645
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Publication date:	03/31/1997
Series:	0
Edition description:	1ST
Pages:	468
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.98(d)

Table of Contents

Chapter heading and selected papers: List of Tables. Preface. Introduction. Context of Airport System planning. Challenges to the Traditional Planning Approach. The Evolving Context of Airport Planning. Environmental Concerns. Institutional Changes in the Aviation Sector. Towards a Strategic View of Planning. Stakeholders, Goals and Objectives. Constraints. Understanding Aviation System Behaviour. Airline Decisios. National Government Roles. Community Response to Airport Development. Airport Disbenefits. Jurisdictional Issues. Economics of Airport Development. Airport Revenues and Costs. Public Investment Priorities. Regional Airport System Planning. Metropolitan Airport Systems. Activity Allocation Models. National Airport System Planning. Implementation Strategies. Role of Analysis in Policy Formulation. United States Experience. The California Aviation System Plan. The Seattle "Flight Plan" Project. The United Kingdom Case The London System. Conclusions. The European Union Case. Airline Strategies. Power Relationships. National Airport Planning Cases. Greece. Norway. Competing Roles for Airports. Glasgow, Scotland. Montreal, Canada. Towards Improved Strategic Planning. Planning Techniques and Practices. Airport System Design. Conclusions. Lessons form Hindsight. Adapting Creatively for the Future. References. Index.

Editorial Reviews

Caves (Loughborough U. of Technology) and Gosling (U. of California-Berkeley) examine the strengths and weaknesses of past strategic planning of airport systems, and suggest how the concept of strategic system planning can be used to advantage in the future. The major issues 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. These issues are illuminated by case studies of representative airport systems<-- >intercontinental gateways, a metropolitan multi-airport system, provincial and regional airports and developing country systems. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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