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Developing a framework for the local economic impact of airports

Understanding how airports contribute to the local economy.

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Developing a framework for the local economic impact of airports

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Economic impacts of airports: metrics

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Economic impacts of airports: literature review

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Research to develop an analytical framework for assessing the local economic contribution of airports.

The main outputs were:

  • a literature review looking at evidence on how airports impact the local economies in the area they are located
  • an analytical framework for assessing the local economic impact of airports in the UK
  • application of the framework to a set of airports across the UK using data from 2019 or scaled to 2019 levels

This research was commissioned in 2020.

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Published 17 August 2023

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