Airport Companies as Silent Partners: The Complex Interplay between Public and Private Ownership

Halpern, Charlotte

doi:10.1108/s2044-9941(2013)0000004006

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“…At any given time, one can sell or otherwise swap these bets with other bets to make a profit, meaning, speculate on the futures contracts. 67 Precious metals and gold in particular, as Halpern argues, are long-standing hedge bets in these speculative markets.…”

Section: Earth As Futures: Aerial Prospect and Feeding Data Forwardmentioning

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Media Ecologies of the ‘Extractive View’

Önal

2020

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Extraction displaces materials and reorganises habitats by accumulating resources – a process that renders populations and natural reserves as extractable data to be mobilised in systems of metabolic exchange. In contemporary practice, collecting, sorting, and processing this data require a complex interoperability between sensors, computing platforms, and databases before they are made into earth observation images. Following the scholarly research on the instrumentality of aerial survey in histories of extractive colonialism, this essay sheds light on the extractive capacity of remote sensing technologies in contemporary mining industries. Engaging with the media infrastructures of resource exploration, the inquiry revisits Heidi Scott’s theory of ‘colonialism’s vertical third dimension’ and extends it from the physical to the sensory, numerical, and temporal domains of extractivism. After Sean Cubitt’s classification of mediated earth observation, the three geomedia, the discussion is organised in three parts: electromagnetic sensing, numerical translations, and financial futures. A media-archaeological analysis of earth observation systems brings forth the extractive codes of the remote view by revealing its selective, vectoral, and speculative capacities in tapping the earth and ordering its resources into materials of exchange. Keywords: extractive view, mining industries, remote sensing, geomedia, digital image, aerial surveillance, urbanisation, datafication

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Section: Earth As Futures: Aerial Prospect and Feeding Data Forwardmentioning

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Media Ecologies of the ‘Extractive View’

Önal

2020

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“…Aviation growth includes airport infrastructures that extend far beyond the limits of airport sites reaching large-scale real estate, transport and economic development at the metropolitan level (Halpern 2014). A key focus for infrastructure is in passenger transportation to airports, which plays a crucial role in the flow of passengers.…”

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A Brief Intermodal Rail Network (IRN) Scale: Establishing Validity and Reliability

Mehta¹,

Rice²,

Carstens³

et al. 2015

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An Intermodal Rail Network (IRN) Scale was created for the purpose of measuring consumer perceptions about their experiences with airport intermodal rail travel. Some previous research has focused on intermodal rail in other arenas, but to date, no paper that we know of has developed a valid and reliable scale to measure consumer perceptions of airport intermodal rail travel. The indirect purpose of this scale is to aid in measuring the factors that would influence the use of an IRN, wherein the greater the usage, the greater the efficiency, and therefore reduce the number of vehicles around the airport that produce greenhouse emissions. In this paper, we outline the methodology used to develop our scale. A total of 365 participants were solicited to help generate items for the scale, narrow down the list of items to those most relevant to a positive experience with intermodal rail, and test the final scale for validity and reliability. A factor analysis using the principle components and varimax rotation loaded strongly on one factor, providing evidence for validity. Reliability was tested via Cronbach's Alpha and Guttmann's Split-half tests, indicating high consistency and reliability.

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