Airports as Connected Activity Centers
This research project determined how airports could function as connected activity centers. The current state of policy is to treat airports as secluded from the rest of the metropolitan area and only engage in reactive planning in response to specific threats or crises. To seek out other models of airport development, a combination of literature reviews and case studies was used to examine airports already functioning as connected activity centers. The literature reviews suggest that there has been substantial research covering on-airport development, while research on integration with surrounding land uses is focused on ‘airport cities’ and ‘Aerotropolis’ concepts. A literature review on airport economic development found a strong relationship between economic growth and air transport, but with uncertain causality, and secondly that most airport cities emerge as part of urban expansion, rather than due to independent effects. Six case studies provide detailed analysis of specific hub, commercial service, and general aviation airports. Scenarios based on the case studies include airports as freight hubs, airports as airport cities, and airports as airport resorts. The central finding is that creating airports as connected activity centers requires more coordination between airports, transportation, and airport-adjacent land-use planning.
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- Cover date: April 2022.
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Corporate Authors:
University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Metropolitan Research Center
375 South 1530 East Room 235
Salt Lake City, UT United States 84112Utah Department of Transportation
Research Division
Salt Lake City, UT United States 84114-8410Utah Transit Authority
200 South 669 West
Salt Lake City, UT United States 84101Salt Lake County
Salt Lake City, UT United StatesWasatch Front Regional Council
295 North Jimmy Doolittle Road
Salt Lake City, UT United States 84116Mountainland Association of Governments
586 E 800 N
Orem, Utah United States 84097Department of Transportation
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC United States 20590 -
Authors:
- Miller, Matthew McKee
- Peng, Justin
- Metro, Jolyn
- Eskic, Dejan
- Publication Date: 2022-5-25
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Edition: Final Report
- Features: Appendices; Figures; Maps; Photos; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 98p
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Activity centers; Airports; Best practices; Case studies; Connectivity; Economic development; Hubs
- Subject Areas: Aviation; Planning and Forecasting; Terminals and Facilities;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01847992
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: UT-22.08
- Contract Numbers: 19-8200
- Files: NTL, TRIS, ATRI, USDOT, STATEDOT
- Created Date: Jun 6 2022 4:54PM