HELICOPTERS AND URBAN COMMUNITIES

In the past 20 years, the number of helicopters in major metropolitan areas has grown at an annual rate of about 15 percent double the rate for the country as a whole. Their presence has now become a factor in the management of urban land and airspace resources; and like other resource users, helicopters and their necessary heliports have elicited controversy. The issue is one of perception: the external costs of urban helicopters (e. g., noise) are obvious; the benefits are not always obvious since they are generally indirect. This article responds to the latter viewpoint by addressing both the benefits and the social costs of helicopter operations in urban communities. It identifies steps taken to enhance the benefits and minimize the costs.

• Record URL:
  • https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015021808590?urlappend=%3Bseq=11
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/oclc/7938948
• Corporate Authors:

  Eno Transportation Foundation

  1250 I Street, NW, Suite 750
  Washington, DC  United States  20005
• Authors:
  • Lawrence, D S
• Publication Date: 1985-1

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 5-16
• Serial:
  • Transportation Quarterly
  • Volume: 39
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: Eno Transportation Foundation
  • ISSN: 0278-9434

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air transportation; Benefit cost analysis; Environmental impacts; Externalities; Helicopters; Land use; Noise; Transportation planning; Urban transportation
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Environment; Finance; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00395204
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 31 1985 12:00AM