Developing a framework for the local economic impact of airports
Understanding how airports contribute to the local economy.
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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.