SEA AND ITS POTENTIAL INFLUENCE ON AIRPORT DEVELOPMENT PLANNING
Recently, taking the advantage of contemporary social media DAA is actively promoting the emerged area around the airport as attractive and prosperous developments are for business, retail, high tech, etc. The location of the airport and Dublin as major financial district within the country and in the EU context is believed to enhance the business opportunity investments. The potential forthcoming the airport city will be mixed notion of growth, connectivity, sustainable development and lifestyle (DAA, 2011). However, due to the current financial instability of the country the vision of the development Dublin Airport City are indistinct.
4. The strategic role of comparison: New Lisbon Airport General Information Lisbon Portela airport is functioning since 1942 and at current time the major airport in Portugal and major European hub for transatlantic flights. Ideas about airport expansion have been discussed since 1970s but consequent political and political crisis temporarily slow down the expansion dialogue. The trigger for change, i.e. the need of adding more capacity to the airport was driven by the fast levels of urban growth, by that time the airport was already surrounded by the city of Lisbon. Ideas for expansion emerge in the early 80s and 90s, by accession of the country in EU and applying mandatory EIS for projects (IDAD, 2007). During 2005 after more than three decades of negotiating and consultation, the decision was to relocate the airport to village of Ota, between Lisbon and Porto. Decision for this location were both environmental – seeking for less negative impacts; and strategic – potential airport at this area might stimulate so called “airport corridor” type development between Porto and Lisbon. However, the public and industry criticized decision taken by the government and publicly announced. Independent research was appointed and came up with proposal for new location Campo de Tiro de Alcochete (CTA) followed by strategic comparative assessment between two preferred locations (Figure 10, Appendix 3). The result showed that CTA has predominant advantage in comparison to OTA and the government announced CTA as the final location for the new airport, planned to operate by 2017 (Partidario, 2011).
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