Remote, rural, and regional airports in Australia

Donehue, Paul; Baker, Douglas

doi:10.1016/j.tranpol.2012.08.007

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“…This is challenging when this air service network is complex in terms of links and operators, both of which are subject to change (Donehue and Baker, 2012). For example, between 2005 and 2008, the number of airports served decreased from 170 to 148, however this trend reversed from 2011 (151 airports) to up to 171 airports in 2012 (BITRE, 2013).…”

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“…Currently, very little knowledge exists on the economic effects of RRR airports (Robertson, 1995) and air services (Merkert and O'Fee, 2013). Although these airports and air services play a vital role in terms of enabling mobility to sustain health, education, tourism, and work opportunities (Adler et al, 2013), their traffic levels are insufficient for profitable operation given high costs of airport maintenance and management (Donehue and Baker, 2012). The majority are managed by local governments (municipalities) that often lack the financial resources or expertise to manage and operate an airport.…”

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Regional aviation and economic growth: cointegration and causality analysis in Australia

Baker

Merkert

Kamruzzaman

2015

Journal of Transport Geography

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a b s t r a c tAir transport is a critical link to regional, rural and remote communities in Australia. Air services provide important economic and social benefits but very little research has been done on assessing the value of regional aviation. This research provides the first empirical evidence that there is short and long run causality between regional aviation and economic growth. The authors analysed 88 regional airports in Australia over a period of 1985-86 to 2010-11 to determine the catalytic impacts of regional air transport on regional economic growth. The analysis was conducted using annual data related to total airport passenger movements -for the level of airport activity, and real aggregate taxable income -to represent economic growth. A significant bi-directional relationship was established: airports have an impact on regional economic growth and the economy directly impacts regional air transport. The economic significance of regional air transport confirms the importance of the airport as infrastructure for regional councils and the need for them to maintain and develop local airports. Funding should be targeted at airports directly to support regional development.

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Regional aviation and economic growth: cointegration and causality analysis in Australia

Baker

Merkert

Kamruzzaman

2015

Journal of Transport Geography

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“…Regulation of small airports is problematic as ‘frequently these airports are subject to multiple levels of policy compliance with respect to their aviation operations… environmental impacts, and relationship to other airports‘ ( Donehue and Baker, 2012, p. 235 ). Certainly, relatively little is known about the types and range of employed EPs at small airports, particularly outside of the US.…”

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Factors affecting environmental practice adoption at small European airports: An investigation

Harley

Timmis

Budd

2020

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment

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Highlights Examines the adoption of environmental practices (EPs) by small European airports handling under 5 m passengers a year. TOE framework is used as the basis for an online survey of over 400 airports. Airports are classified into 3 groups according to their level of EP engagement. Relative size of small airports as well as other variables affects the extent of EP adoption. Scope for greater EP adoption exists and recommendations for policy and practice are offered.

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“…Australia is an interesting case as it is characterised by a spatially dispersed settlement pattern: the distances between the main population centres are on average relatively large. Since public transport services such as train and bus are relatively unimportant to connect centres on the national scale, or often even almost completely absent outside the urban areas, (private) road and air transport are the only viable alternatives to cover often vast distances (Donehue & Baker, 2012;Nutley, 2003). Especially the more isolated communities in regional, rural and remote Australia extensively rely on air transport to access locations, goods, services and people.…”

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“…This is particularly the case when road access is hampered or even closed due to extreme climatic events, for example during the wet season in northern Australia (Kohen & Spandonide, 2016). Achieving an adequate level of accessibility in these regions therefore remains a big challenge for Australian policy makers (Donehue & Baker, 2012;Kohen & Spandonide, 2016).…”

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A bimodal accessibility analysis of Australia’s statistical areas

2019

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The map presented in this paper summarises the combined land-and airside accessibility within Australia. To this end, we calculate a bimodal accessibility index at the scale of statistical units by aggregating the (shortest) travel time for three route segments: (1) road travel from the origin to a departure airport, (2) air travel, and (3) road travel from an arrival airport to the destination. The average travel time from a statistical unit to all other statistical units is calculated for the units' population centroids, after which an accessibility surface is interpolated using kriging. The map shows that southeastern Australia is generally characterised by a high accessibility index with the most populated cities being hotspots of accessibility. Central and northern Australia arewith few exceptionsfar less accessible. In addition to this largely-expected pattern, the map also reveals a number of specific and perhaps more surprising geographical patterns.

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Remote, rural, and regional airports in Australia

Cited by 31 publications

References 11 publications

Regional aviation and economic growth: cointegration and causality analysis in Australia

Regional aviation and economic growth: cointegration and causality analysis in Australia

Factors affecting environmental practice adoption at small European airports: An investigation

A bimodal accessibility analysis of Australia’s statistical areas

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