The Impacts of Emerging Aviation Trends on Airport Infrastructure

The demands on airport infrastructure around the world are both growing and changing. This paper explores what problems these changing demands imply for airports, and how they are coping with them. Growth in demand imposes a problem of allocation of scarce capacity in the short run—how well mechanisms such as the slot system are coping with them is explored. In the long term, increases in capacity are warranted, and how the emerging ownership and regulatory environments for airports will handle these is examined. Changes in patterns of demand will come from new business models, such as low-cost carriers and from new aircraft types, such as the Airbus A380—the implications of these for airports of these are considered. Finally, the issue of airport cost efficiency, and how ownership and regulatory environment impact on it, is examined.

• Record URL:
  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6VGP-4MK0HMT-1/2/8a38e76017eb5a9c8a72aba2e15adda8
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/oclc/31005945
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission from Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Forsyth, Peter
• Publication Date: 2007-1

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 45-52
• Serial:
  • Journal of Air Transport Management
  • Volume: 13
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0969-6997
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09696997

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Airports; Aviation; Cost effectiveness; Investments; Low cost carriers; Regulations; Slot allocation; Travel demand
• Candidate Terms: Airport congestion
• Identifier Terms: Airbus A380
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Finance; Law; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01049479
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 29 2007 10:11AM