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Caught in a crossfire: Front-end decision-making in airport expansion programmes

Avanzi, P; Zerjav, V; (2020) Caught in a crossfire: Front-end decision-making in airport expansion programmes. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives , 8 , Article 100222. 10.1016/j.trip.2020.100222. Green open access

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Abstract

This paper revisits the main factors and considerations that drive the decision to invest in major capital projects in airport infrastructure, specifically airport expansion programmes. To this end, the paper explores how governments, operators and investors have navigated the project front-end considerations (strategic assessment, business justification, option decision, investment decision) in the planning of Heathrow, Schiphol and Dublin Airport expansion programmes. Through inductive research on publicly available material, professional conference reports, planning documentation and exploratory interviews with key personnel involved in the selected projects, the study compares and contrasts the three projects and contributes to the current debates on the role that governments have into fostering economic growth whilst taking into account environmental restriction and climate change. The goal of the study is to inform the upcoming restructuring and transformation of business models in air travel as a response to the Covid-19 crisis.

Type: Article
Title: Caught in a crossfire: Front-end decision-making in airport expansion programmes
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/j.trip.2020.100222
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trip.2020.100222
Language: English
Additional information: © 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
Keywords: Infrastructure planning, Project front-end, Airport expansion programmes
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett Sch of Const and Proj Mgt
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10112157
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