SHIFTING GLOBAL AIRLINE SERVICE AND THE LOCAL COMMUNITY. FINAL REPORT

This report presents results from a one-year study investigating the allocation, organization, and importance of international passenger and freight service among US cities. Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP) serves as a case study throughout. The study addressed specific causes and effects of the international air service MSP currently enjoys. The goal of this report is to inform public policy decision-makers, business leaders, and private citizens about international air service at MSP: the regulatory framework that shapes the international service map, connections between such service and urban development, and Minneapolis/St. Paul's standing among other Midwestern cities in terms of access to major foreign destinations. The final section of this report comments on the tenuous nature of nonstop international service in today's liberal international environment, current efforts to enhance international service to the Twin Cities, and questions that remain unanswered about the Twin Cities' place on the international service map.

• Corporate Authors:

  University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

  Department of Geography, 267 19th Avenue South
  Minneapolis, MN  United States  55455

  Minnesota Department of Transportation

  395 John Ireland Boulevard
  St Paul, MN  United States  55155
• Authors:
  • Loughlin, M J
  • Adams, J S
• Publication Date: 1996-1

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 122 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Access; Air transportation; Economic impacts; Foreign; Freight service; Passenger service; Policy; Urban development
• Identifier Terms: Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport
• Old TRIS Terms: Nonstop international service
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Economics; Freight Transportation; Passenger Transportation; Policy; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00720167
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: MN/RC-96/02
• Contract Numbers: 72445 TOC #157
• Files: TRIS, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Apr 15 1996 12:00AM