THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF AVIATION IN PENNSYLVANIA. FINAL TECHNICAL REPORT

This study identified the output (gross sales, taxes, and capital expenditures), payroll, and employment generated by aviation activity in Pennsylvania in 1988. The Commonwealth's aviation network, which includes 146 public-use airports (17 commercial service and 129 general aviation), 350 private airports, and 300 heliports, is a major economic contributor and a stimulator of business and industrial development. The study identified the direct economic contributions made by airports, and also estimated the induced impacts accrued when aviation dollars circulate throughout the economy, creating successive waves of spending. Direct impacts were identified through data collected from major aviation-related groups. Induced impacts were estimated using economic multipliers supplied by the Pennsylvania State University. Pennsylvania aviation's total (direct and induced) output impact was $9.5 billion in 1988. Aviation activities created 153,375 jobs and generated a total payroll of $3.5 billion. The 5.6 million visitors who arrived in Pennsylvania via airports in 1988 spent $3.3 billion in 1988 on food, lodging, transportation, and entertainment. A major survey conducted for the study showed that the Commonwealth's businesses and industries rely heavily on aviation services. Businesses rated the availability of airports as the third most important of 10 key site selection criteria, and 85% said they use commercial air service.

• Corporate Authors:

  Aviation Planning Associates, Incorporated

  421 Arch Street
  Cincinnati, OH  United States  45273-9832

  Pennsylvania Department of Transportation

  Office of Research and Special Studies, P.O. Box 2926
  Harrisburg, PA  United States  17120
• Publication Date: 1990-3

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: 81 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aviation; Economic impacts
• Geographic Terms: Pennsylvania
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Economics; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00602799
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: No. 88-13
• Files: TRIS, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Dec 31 1990 12:00AM