Aviation
Government Support Measures for Domestic Air Connectivity
Case-Specific Policy Analysis, Policy Insights,
10 December 2018
- Establish explicit domestic transport connectivity objectives.
- Assess the impacts of potential intervention in the aviation market.
- Monitor and periodically evaluate the effectiveness of support for domestic air connectivity.
- Make the award of subsidies transparent.
- Keep support programmes simple.
- Provide incentives to create value-for-money.
- Weigh the benefits of safeguarding slots at congested airports against the costs of denying them to more profitable services.
Surface Access to Airports
Case-Specific Policy Analysis, Policy Insights,
25 October 2018
- Integrate the new airport into strategic plans for sustainable urban transport.
- Prioritise access by public transport in the layout of the airport terminal.
- Establish priorities for investment in public transport links to the airport.
- Preserve alignments for infrastructure than can only be funded later on.
- Plan now for links that will serve both developments on the old airport site and the new airport.
- Integrate new public transport links with existing networks seamlessly.
- Create the framework for investment in fast, seamless, reliable rail or metro links.
- Explore a range of potential funding options for premium rail or metro services.
- Maintain today’s world-class long distance coach services.
- Fund public transport investments with the potential to relieve road congestion and air pollution.
Defining, Measuring and Improving Air Connectivity
Corporate Partnership Board Report, Policy Insights,
16 May 2018
- Adapt the use of connectivity metrics to specific policy challenges.
- Use a combination of approaches to assess potential knock-on effects that policy or strategy changes may have on air connectivity.
- Involve all aviation stakeholders in the policy process of developing air connectivity metrics.
- Make systematic use of air connectivity metrics to evaluate the performance of the national aviation sector and improve decision-making.
Performance Criteria for Assessing Airport Expansion Alternatives for the London Region
Presentation, slides, speech,
10 January 2018
Dismantling the Skies that Bind: Institutional Impacts of Brexit in Aviation Markets and Networks
Presentation, slides, speech,
8 January 2018
Political Economy of Airport Capacity Planning in the London Airport System
Presentation, slides, speech,
7 January 2018
Capacity Building through Efficient Use of Existing Airport Infrastructure
Roundtable Report, Policy Insights,
30 October 2017
- Whilst governments should act cautiously and avoid intervention unless there are strong reasons for it, airports, airlines, air navigation service providers, and regulators need to pursue all possible technical innovations to improve the utilisation of airport capacity. Collaborative decision-making is critical to achieving optimal outcomes.
- Governments should consider policies improving air connectivity alongside all impacts of air transport, in particular in terms of noise and air pollution impacts on local communities.
- Governments should constantly re-evaluate caps on aircraft movements that are designed to contain noise impacts, as technological improvements make it possible to reduce noise nuisance while allowing for more aircraft operations.
- IATA WSG should continue to evolve to facilitate more efficient use of scarce airport capacity, ultimately benefitting passengers and other users of aviation. Authorities should ensure that the rules are applied in practice as intended.
- Any system of slot allocation at congested airports needs to take account of the potential benefits of competition. When slots are allocated to new entrants they should be in sufficient quantity to support viable business models.
- The potential to use primary slot auctioning to improve welfare outcomes at congested airports should not be ruled out. To make decisions on primary slot auctioning, the transfer of rents needs to be considered explicitly, and steps taken to avoid excessive disruption to incumbent airlines.
- Secondary slot trading should be allowed and facilitated for more efficient utilisation of capacity.
- Congested airports should eliminate price discrimination against large aircraft wherever such discrimination is present.
Time to Sweat the Assets? The analysis of two airport cases of restricted capacity in different continents
Discussion Paper,
19 September 2017
Alternative Solutions to Airport Saturation: Simulation Models applied to congested airports
Discussion Paper,
12 September 2017
Jousting with Dragons: A Resilience Engineering approach to managing SMS in the transport sector
Discussion Paper,
6 August 2017
Why SMS? An Introduction and Overview of Safety Management Systems (SMS)
Discussion Paper,
3 August 2017
Airport Site Selection
Case-Specific Policy Analysis, Policy Insights,
30 May 2017
- The process should start with an assessment of need for new infrastructure.
- Comparable assessments should be undertaken for a range of feasible options.
- Selection criteria need to examine all positive and negative impacts of airport capacity expansion.
- Assessments need to incorporate considerations of risk and uncertainty.
- The process needs to be clear, transparent, collaborative, and trade-offs need to be explicitly considered.
Alternative Solutions to Airport Saturation: Simulation Models Applied to Congested Airports
Presentation, slides, speech,
9 March 2017
Time to Sweat the Assets? The Analysis of Two Airport Cases of Restricted Capacity in Different Continents
Presentation, slides, speech,
9 March 2017
ITF Transport Outlook 2017
Transport Outlook, Policy Insights,
29 January 2017
- The 2016 Paris climate agreement must be translated into concrete actions for the transport sector.
- Policy will need to embrace and respond to disruptive innovation in transport.
- Reducing CO2 from urban mobility needs more than better vehicle and fuel technology.
- Targeted land-use policies can reduce the transport infrastructure needed to provide more equitable access in cities.
- Governments need to develop planning tools to adapt to uncertainties created by changing patterns of consumption, production and distribution.
Expanding Airport Capacity under Constraints in Large Urban Areas: The German Experience
Discussion Paper,
1 March 2013
Evolution of Metropolitan Airports in Japan -Airport Development in Tokyo and Osaka
Presentation, slides, speech,
21 February 2013
Expanding Airport Capacity under Constraints in Large Urban Areas: The German Experience
Presentation, slides, speech,
21 February 2013
Airport Capacity Expansion Strategies in the Era of Airline Multihub Networks
Presentation, slides, speech,
21 February 2013
Upgrading to World Class: The Future of the New York Region’s Airports
Discussion Paper,
1 February 2013