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Strategic Airport Planning
The advances in the technology of air transportation have been matched by a progressive reduction in its cost, as shown in Figure 1.1. Not surprisingly, these changes have led to a dramatic increase in air travel, which are projected to continue into the foreseeable future, as shown in Figure 1.2. Together with this growth in air travel has comethe need for ever increasing airport capacity to handle this traffic. At first, airports were constructed in a somewhat ad hoc manner. As the technical requirements of successive generations of aircraft became clearer and the volumes of passengers and cargo being handled increased, the need for common and accepted procedures for airport planning become apparent, and a well-defined body of technical literature emerged, supported by the standardising influence of such agencies as the International Civil Aviation Organisation and United States Federal Aviation Administration.
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