Case of airport cities in India : an economic development perspective
- Vol.28(1), Jan-Mar
- Pune NICMAR 2013
- 53-66p.
An Airport City is one of the newest forms of urban infrastructure comprising aviation intensive business and related enterprises extending upto 25 kms.away from a major airport. It can also be referred as an aerotropolis or the aviation city. In its purest form, the airport city, is an economic hub that extends out from a large airport to a surrounding area that mainly consists of the distribution centers, office buildings, light manufacturing firms, convention centers and hotels, all linked to the airports via roads, expressways (aero links) and rail lines (aero trains). The paper presents an economic perspective of airport city development and describes India's first declared airport city Bengal Aerotropolis Projects Ltd. (BAPL), as a case to illustrate the potential of such projects to bring about economic development opportunities in their surrounding areas.