Strategic Airport Planning
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Author(s): R. Caves and G. D. Gosling (Eds)
Publisher: Pergamon
ISBN: 0 0804 2764 2
Format: hardback
449pp
Price: NLG194
Review Date: 23 May 2000
Review: The aim of this book is to identify the strengths and weaknesses of past strategic planning of airport systems, and to attempt to provide guidance on how the concept of strategic system planning can be used to advantage in the future. Strategic planning needs careful integration into the entire airport development process. Here the stress is on the need to improve the front end of the process by providing appropriate airport facilities, recognizing that an airport's strategic plan needs to be set in an understanding of the airport's role within a system and that system planning is a vital part of the process. The book has chapters on: the evolving context of airport planning; a strategic view of planning; understand aviation system behaviour; community response to airport development; economies of airport development; regional and national airport planning; and case histories of experiences in the USA, UK, EU and elsewhere.