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A 4 page discussion of airport expansion and development in Europe. Europe is experiencing a constant growth in demand for air transport. The obvious implications of this growth is the expansion of existing air services and facilities. As a consequence existing airports are being expanded and new greenfield airports constructed. Both the expansion of existing airports and the construction of greenfield airports, however, rests on several specific considerations. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Europe is experiencing a constant growth in demand for air transport. The obvious implications of this growth is the expansion of existing air services and facilities.
As a consequence existing airports are being expanded and new greenfield airports constructed. Both the expansion of existing airports and the construction of greenfield airports, however, rests on several
specific considerations. The greenfield site in the south of England, for example, has elicited significant environmental review. This is understandable given that the proposal for international terminals in
North Kent has the potential to impact the Severn estuary with its construction of a terminal on an artificial island (Clark, 2003). Another proposal is found in the Thames
estuary on the Hoo peninsula (Clark, 2003). The list continues with a proposal on the Isle of Sheppey. Environmental concerns, however, are just one of the issues that go
hand in hand with airport expansion and addition. Cost and construction logistics are of obvious concern in airport expansion and addition.
Access to Essex for the Thames site noted above, for example, requires road and rail tunnel costs alone that are estimated at ?1.5bn (Clark, 2003). Numerous design features of
the site have been determined by ecological concerns. In an effort to avoid impacting birdlife, for example, the runway is proposed to extend into the estuary itself (Clark, 2003).
In the U.K. it is beginning to appear, in fact, that environmental concerns might shape development but it will not effectively stop it. Greenfield airport construction seems to
be continuing even in spite of a governmental emphasis in many cases on expanding existing facilities rather than building new. Communities
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