The role of infrastructure as a factor of growth and development of countries and regions is often considered to be crucial. Among the various types of transport infra-structure, airports are considered as particularly strategic because of the increasing importance of air transport in connecting

Airports and the airline industry are key components of the national economy, in part, because air transportation shapes the spatial hierarchy of metropolitan economies. However, it is less well understood how various measures of airport activity might affect or correlate to economic, geographic

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We envision a future where people’s living spaces are interactive and programmable. Users interact with their offices, homes, cars, malls and airports to request information, benefit from the resources available, and configure the habitat’s behavior. Data and tasks are always accessible

now that they are increasingly viewed as businesses rather than public services. Adoption of this proven business model will transform the airport industry from a collection of monadic activities to systems of airports. The imperatives of focus and scale are likely to effect significantly both

National Airports Systems (NAS), pressed by public opinion, have devoted many efforts and financial resources to the study of the environmental impact of airports. It has been only recently that NAS have undertaken studies on the economic impact of airports activities. The

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. An empirical study examines the relationship between airport size and airport profits. There is no statistically significant evidence from the results to suggest that small/medium airports are less profitable than major hub airports as the former reconfigure their activities in response to changing

the problems caused by aeronautical noise, a night curfew is often imposed on the airport activities to minimize the existing conflicts. This article describes a proposed methodology to analyze the main economic impacts derived from operational changes at the airport – namely the night curfew on airport