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“a multimodal freight and passenger transportation complex which supports efficient, cost-effective, sustainable development in a defined region of economic significance centered around a major airport.” United States Congress H.R.658: Aerotropolis Act of 2011
But it is more than a transport complex: It is a strategy...
That is, an aerotropolis is a constellation of physical, institutional, economic and policy interventions which upgrade airport infrastructure and facilities, reduce connecting ground-based transport times and costs, and expand air route connectivity to (1) improve operational efficiencies of the airport and metropolitan region and (2) leverage aviation-enabled trade in goods and services.
• Primary objective: Enhancing airport, business, and regional competitiveness through improved multi-modal airport surface transportation access and planned, coordinated aviation-linked commercial development, making the airport and its surrounding areas more economically efficient, attractive, and sustainable.
• Key value proposition: Offers businesses located near or with good transport access to the airport with speedy connectivity to their suppliers, customers, and enterprise partners, nationally and worldwide.
• Contains the full set of cargo, logistics, and commercial facilities that support airlines and aviation-linked businesses as well as air travelers.
• An Airport City developed on and immediately around the airport serves as the multimodal, multi-functional commercial core of the Aerotropolis anchoring aviation-enabled trade in goods and services, driving them throughout the broader airport region.
• Between 2013 and 2032, world-wide commercial passenger traffic will likely increase from 5.4 billion to approximately 14 billion (nearly 40 million pax/day) Asia/Middle East fastest growing
• In the same period (2013 to 2032), world air cargo traffic is expected to nearly triple (Asia/Middle East also fastest growing)
• Between 2013 to 2032 commercial aircraft in service will rise from 20,310 to 41,240
• During this period (2013-2032) 35,280 new commercial aircraft will come into service with a new market value of US$4.8 trillion
Source: IATA & Airports Council International (2013, Boeing Current Market Outlook 2013-2032)
• Airports today: much more than aviation infrastructures
• They are multimodal, multifunctional enterprises generating considerable commercial development within and well beyond their boundaries
• All commercial functions of a modern metropolitan center are locating on and immediately around major airport sites – transforming them from “city airports” to “airport cities”
1• Daily consumer population at major airports is larger than
that of many mid-sized cities, and with higher incomes
2• Numerous airports achieve greater percentage of revenues
from non-aeronautical sources than aeronautical sources
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• Rapid commercial development around many major airports makes them leading urban growth generators, as airport areas become significant employment, shopping, trading and business destinations in their own right
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• Airport area develops a “brand image” attracting even non-aviation linked businesses such as factory outlets & big box retail
Spines, nodes, and clusters of aviation-linked business and residential complexes are forming along airport transportation corridors up to 30 km from some airports with significant economic impact measured up to 90 km.
• Office buildings and technology parks
• Logistics and distribution centers
• Industrial estates and light manufacturing
• Retail centers and wholesale merchandise marts
• Information and communications technology complexes
• Bioscience and medical facilities
• Higher education campuses
• Hotel, convention, tourism and entertainment complexes
• Large mixed-use residential developments
• Airport “Edge Cities” (e.g., Amsterdam, Zuidas; Las Colinas, Texas; New Songdo IBD)
Just as you have Central Cities and the greater Metropolis, you now have Airport Cities and the greater Aerotropolis.
• Spatial and Functional: An airport city core surrounded by an extended airport-integrated economic region made up of transportation and commercial infrastructure which facilitates aviation-enabled trade in goods and services, including:
– Goods shipped by air– Goods shipped by surface or sea but whose sale is facilitated by air travel– Services:
• Tourism• Business services which depend on air travel
• Connectivity = Competitiveness:
– The Aerotropolis efficiently connects its businesses to markets near and far
– Improved surface transportation connects firms more efficiently to airport area and broader regional markets
– Expanded air routes provide quick and efficient connectivity to international markets
• The fastest, best connected places will win in the 21st century.