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AVIATION SYSTEM PLANNING: ADDRESSING AIRPORT INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS

Laurie Howard, W. A. Keller

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Demand for air transportation continues to grow, but many larger airports are already constrained in their ability to expand, and communities often strongly resist construction of additional runways. More metropolitan areas, therefore, will need to use secondary airports or even construct new airports. Trends in general aviation (GA) will pose new challenges to maintaining a viable system of GA airports, and the continuing shift toward making transportation investment decisions from an intermodal perspective will require increased attention to the broader context of airport development. Current coordination of airport development leaves much to be desired. The aviation system planning process must be strengthened, and coordination of system planning and development decisions at individual airports must be improved. This paper discusses further the current issues and directions in aviation system planning.

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Demand for air transportation continues to grow, but many larger airports are already constrained in their ability to expand, and communities often strongly resist construction of additional runways. More metropolitan areas, therefore, will need to use secondary airports or even construct new airports. Trends in general aviation (GA) will pose new challenges to maintaining a viable system of GA airports, and the continuing shift toward making transportation investment decisions from an intermodal perspective will require increased attention to the broader context of airport development. Current coordination of airport development leaves much to be desired. The aviation system planning process must be strengthened, and coordination of system planning and development decisions at individual airports must be improved. This paper discusses further the current issues and directions in aviation system planning.

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Demand for air transportation continues to grow, but many larger airports are already constrained in their ability to expand, and communities often strongly resist construction of additional runways. More metropolitan areas, therefore, will need to use secondary airports or even construct new airports. Trends in general aviation (GA) will pose new challenges to maintaining a viable system of GA airports, and the continuing shift toward making transportation investment decisions from an intermodal perspective will require increased attention to the broader context of airport development. Current coordination of airport development leaves much to be desired. The aviation system planning process must be strengthened, and coordination of system planning and development decisions at individual airports must be improved. This paper discusses further the current issues and directions in aviation system planning.

Key concepts: Runway, Aviation, Aviation engineering, Metropolitan area, Context (archaeology), Transport engineering, Transportation planning, Process (computing)

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