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Aviation Social and Economic Impacts (Hardcover)
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Aviation Social and Economic Impacts (Hardcover)
Series: The International Library of Essays on Aviation Policy and Management
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As both an enabler and accelerator of globalisation, aviation has
had profound and sometime unintended and unanticipated social and
economic impacts. Commercial airports are not only transport nodes
that facilitate aerial movement they are also major centres of
employment but often sites of political contestation surrounding
their planning and development as economic growth imperatives
conflict with environmental concerns. Noise is often cited as being
one of the most socially contested aspects of airport operations
for local communities, particularly when flights are operating
during the night. This is a particular challenge for cargo
operators whose business model is based on rapid overnight delivery
and distribution. Specific factors including night noise curfews
and the provision and co-location of freight forwarders are
significant determinants of airport choice and this, in turn, leads
to freight forwarding firms clustering at major freight facilities.
As well as meeting the mobility needs of business travellers and
cargo consignors, air travel also facilitates the mass movement of
leisure passengers. The benefits, challenges and limits to growth
of this market segment are explored together with the social,
economic and environmental challenges tourism creates for receiving
countries. The role of airlines in planning, developing and
marketing tourist destinations is also examined in this Volume.
Aviation-led tourist development is particularly pronounced in
cities such as Singapore and Dubai where air service deregulation
and airport-airline-destination marketing strategies have created
not only major international transit hubs but also significant
centres of international urban tourism. In addition to serving
routes with high levels of passenger and cargo demand, aviation
also performs a vital role for geographically remote and/or
inaccessible regions that cannot be rapidly accessed by road, sea
or rail. Owing to lower levels of demand, the need for small (and
sometimes specially equipped aircraft) and the vagaries of the
local weather and climate, these services are expensive to operate
and may not be economically viable without subsidy. Experiences
from the US and European Union examine some of the issues
surrounding the operation of these services. The Volume concludes
with consideration of aviation's environmental impacts and
potential mitigation strategies such as the EU's Emissions Trading
System.
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