Guidebook for Estimating the Economic Impact of Air Cargo Operations at Airports. Part 1: User’s Guidebook; Part 2: Research Report

This guidebook and project research report were developed to assist airport authorities, air cargo operators, and public sector planners in establishing the value of air cargo facilities and operations to their communities and regions. The primary metric of this value is economic impact: the direct, indirect, and induced income and employment generated by the industry. The primary tools are economic impact models that use available data to answer the questions posed by practitioners. The guidebook also presents selected case studies involving air cargo economic impact assessments for five airports.