REDESIGNING AN AIRPORT FOR INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS: THE POLITICS OF ADMINISTRATIVE INNOVATION AT CDG

The opening of a train station in the heart of Charles de Gaulle airport (CDG) marked a milestone in French intermodal planning. As in industries ranging from aerospace to telecommunications, French development has come from behind to lead the of European air-rail interconnections. From a total absence of direct train to plane links that persisted until 1994, France now boasts Europe's first and only high speed rail interconnections to air transport at both Paris-CDG and Lyno-Satolos. The extensive redesign effort need to bring the TGV into CDGs Terminal 2 offer an opportunity to explore how trade and regulatory policies that cut across national boundaries combined to act as an institutional solvent in domestic public policy making. Challenged by interstate rivalry for competitive economic advantage, policy actors were motivated to reconsider their role as it related to airport function. At the same time, a new pattern of decentralized governance facilitated inter-organizational negotiation over new policy making responsibilities. As a result, the long standing definitions of competence and authority that had guided French airport planning and administrative were radically revised. Definitions of mission and method that had previously constrained policy innovation were dissolved and then reconstituted in pursuit of new objectives. This article analyzes the forces responsible for transforming CDG airport from a buffer between transport modes into a facility serving linker intermodal travel.

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• Authors:
  • Perl, A
• Publication Date: 1998-10

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: p. 189-199
• Serial:
  • Journal of Air Transport Management
  • Volume: 4
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0969-6997
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09696997

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Airport planning; Competition; High speed rail; Intermodal facilities; International; International airports; Train operation
• Geographic Terms: France
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00792825
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 27 2000 12:00AM