Caves (Loughborough U. of Technology) and Gosling (U. of California-Berkeley) examine the strengths and weaknesses of past strategic planning of airport systems, and suggest how the concept of
strategic system planning can be used to advantage in the future. The major issues are: forecasting in an uncertain world, airport market share, airline network choices, political settings and
their consequences, economic justification and viability, environmental impacts and their mitigation, cooperative planning, and physical planning challenges. These issues are illuminated by
case studies of representative airport systems intercontinental gateways, a metropolitan multi-airport system, provincial and regional airports and developing country systems. Annotation c.
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