Airport infrastructure

Peter J. Forsyth and Hans-Martin Niemeier

A chapter in Elgar Encyclopedia of Transport and Society, 2025, pp 44-45 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Airports typically involve large capital investments in runways, terminals and facilities for access. Airports have often grown up with cities, and expanding them is difficult; though selecting sites for new airports is also often challenging. As a result, evaluation of new investments is an important task, though it is not always done well. It is therefore important to make the best use of existing facilities by using airport slot systems efficiently. Air traffic and the climate externalities that this generates are now leading to now calls for setting caps on airport traffic, though this might not be an effective or efficient solution.

Keywords: Airport expansion; Airport location; Climate externalities; Cost benefit analysis; Slots; Wider economic benefits (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035330515
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