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Establishing airport cost and revenue functions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

R. S. Doganis  and
G. F. Thompson
R. S. Doganis
Affiliation:
The Polytechnic of Central London
G. F. Thompson
Affiliation:
The Open University
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The discussion generated by the Roskill Commission and by airport planning inquiries in different parts of the United Kingdom has increasingly emphasised that airports are merely a sub-system within a larger system. They cannot be planned and developed except with reference to the other elements that make up that system. There are essentially four critical elements:

  1. (i) The passengers or goods requiring transport by air.

  2. (ii) The physical, social and economic environment around the airport.

  3. (iii) The airport itself.

  4. (iv) The aircraft and the airlines which operate them.

The total system is concerned with enabling passengers and freight to travel by air in order to reach a different environment.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 78 , Issue 763 , July 1974 , pp. 285 - 304
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1974 

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