Air transport is the only way to reach Lithuania from abroad in the short and medium term. Despite a well-developed road network in the country, connections to other European capitals are long and inconvenient. 2014 July. Vilnius, Kaunas and Palanga airports were merged into one state-owned...

Airport expansion must be wrestled from government’s hands, argues new reportSummary:Opposition to air travel has never been about carbon emissions alone. Papers that criticise air travel often begin with a discussion of environmental impacts, but then quickly morph into an aesthetic critique...

Am 31. Oktober 2020 scheint das Bau- und Planungschaos, das den Ruf deutscher Ingenieurkunst in der Welt nachhaltig beschädigte, nun einen Abschluss zu finden: Der neue Flughafen ist fertig und kann eröffnet werden. Die Wirtschaft der Hauptstadtregion dürfte durch die neue Infrastruktur...

To accomplish the renovation and upgrade of the Port Harcourt International Airport Terminal Building, one aspect of the work required that the VIP Lounge at the First floor, be relocated to 20m offset from its original location. To relocate the VIP lounge, its reinforced concrete structure at...

Innovation, Dynamik und eine gewisse Veränderungsbereitschaft der Bürger sind unerlässliche Faktoren für die Reformfähigkeit eines Staates, der stetiges Wachstum sowie Wohlstand generiert. Doch immer häufiger kommt es vor allem bei öffentlichen Infrastrukturprojekten zum Phänomen des...

Innovation, Dynamik und eine gewisse Veränderungsbereitschaft der Bürger sind unerlässliche Faktoren für die Reformfähigkeit eines Staates, der stetiges Wachstum sowie Wohlstand generiert. Doch immer häufiger kommt es vor allem bei öffentlichen Infrastrukturprojekten zum Phänomen des...

The famous Mohring-Harwitz theorem states that, under certain technical conditions, the degree of self-financing of congested infrastructure is equal to the elasticity of the capacity cost function in the optimum, so that under neutral scale economies exact self-financing applies. Although the...

Decisions on expanding airport capacity are often controversial. Environmental impacts mean airport planning decisions are subjected to thorough public scrutiny even when financed by private investors. Where public funds are to be invested, issues of competition between airports and between the...

We have studied the incentives of forming coalitions in the Airport Problem. It has shown that in this class of games, if coalitions form freely, the Shapley value does not lead to the formation of grand or coalitions with many players. Just a coalition with a few number of players forms to act...

We have studied the incentives of forming coalitions in the Airport Problem. It has shown that in this class of games, if coalitions form freely, the Shapley value does not lead to the formation of grand or coalitions with many players. Just a coalition with a few number of players forms to act...

The New International Airport of Mexico City (NAICM) should position Mexico as a regional hub and improve its competitiveness. It is scheduled to be operational in 2020 in answer to the pressing need for the expansion of the city's airport capabilities. The airport, whose construction is managed...

The New International Airport of Mexico City (NAICM) should position Mexico as a regional hub and improve its competitiveness. It is scheduled to be operational in 2020 in answer to the pressing need for the expansion of the city's airport capabilities. The airport, whose construction is managed...

This report expands the quantitative assessment of airline responses to expansion at Gatwick and Heathrow. For this assessment the same methodology was used as in the second study and again the results are been broken down into impacts on scarcity rents, competition and connectivity.

Air transport has experienced phenomenal growth in China over the last 30 years, but studies on China's airport development are few. This paper aims to fill in this literature gap by focusing on the determinants of airport development in the Chinese regions using the most up-to-day and...

"Open Skies," in general, refers to the liberalization of aviation markets that can be pursued on a bilateral, regional, or multilateral basis. At the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) level, liberalization of airfreight and passenger services is targeted by December 2008. This...

Expanding airport capacity in large metropolitan areas is difficult. Community agreements on noise constrain growth at existing airports. Land prices can be prohibitive for relocating airports. Most new sites require extensive investment in surface transport links to city centres. In...

The Airports Commission was set up by the Government of the United Kingdom in 2012 to take an independent look at the UK’s future airport capacity needs. It has been tasked with setting out the nature, scale, and timing of steps needed to maintain the UK’s status as an international hub for...

Die Luftfahrt zählt zu den wachstumsstärksten Branchen in Deutschland. Zudem ist die gute Erreichbarkeit der Wirtschaftszentren für eine stark auf das Ausland fokussierte Volkswirtschaft ein wichtiger Standortfaktor. Doch der Ausbau der Flughafeninfrastruktur kommt in Deutschland nicht...