Publication Date:
2015-10-14
Description:
The link between airports, air service and regional economic development has been well-established and used to justify airport expansion at the expense of local communities because of subsequent region-wide benefits. However, local-level spatial analyses based on US Economic Census data indicate that economic benefits in terms of professional and administrative employment do not necessarily offset local economic and quality of life costs. Furthermore, arguments for an airport city or aerotropolis phenomenon in the US context ignore the individual histories and morphologies of metropolitan areas and overstate the influence an airport has on the economic development of its region.
Keywords:
L93 - Air Transportation, O18 - Regional, Urban, and Rural Analyses, R41 - Transportation: Demand, Supply, and Congestion
;
Safety and Accidents
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Transportation Noise, R53 - Public Facility Location Analysis
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Public Investment and Capital Stock
Print ISSN:
1468-2702
Electronic ISSN:
1468-2710
Topics:
Geography
,
Economics
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