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Beyond current means : meeting public aviation demand in the border region in 2035

Although not often discussed in planning curriculum across the United States,
airports are a very significant part of the country’s transportation infrastructure. With so
much emphasis placed on ground transportation modes such as light rail, bus, and bike,
the impact of aviation on the transportation world gets lost in translation. This study
seeks to bring airport planning back into the conversation by analyzing population
projections, income, and industry and their affect on airport preparedness to meet
increasing population demands. By using population projections through 2035 for the
State of Texas, gross population and population growth rates were used to select counties
within Texas that may be most in need of airport planning considerations. Counties
along the Texas-Mexico border were analyzed in further detail for planning
considerations and preparedness based on their population growth rates. Hidalgo County’s McAllen-Miller International Airport (MFE) was found to be proactively
seeking changes to their airfield that matched recommendations based on their population
increase. However, the level of coordination with city or county level authorities is
lacking. / text

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UTEXAS/oai:repositories.lib.utexas.edu:2152/22548
Date04 December 2013
CreatorsPhillips, Natasha Allyn
Source SetsUniversity of Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis
Formatelectronic
RightsCopyright is held by the author. Presentation of this material on the Libraries' web site by University Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin was made possible under a limited license grant from the author who has retained all copyrights in the works., Restricted

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