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Essay on Airport Development In The 21st Century
With the growing economic interdependence and the collapse of the cold-war structure, the walls separating individual countries in the world are coming down. The 21st century will turn out be an age of increasing exchanges with the outside world in all spheres on national life, including the economy, culture and social activities.
At home also, logistics, both transportation of goods and movement of people, will become increasingly important along with rising living standards and diversification of life styles.
In an age like this, air transportation will have an important bearing on the smooth flow of people and goods. To assure continuing economic and social growth and to assure a certain level of standing for the country in the world, we should not loose the opportunity to develop airports, especially international hub airports that is, key airports in air transportation network as well as domestic hub airports.
The issue is also important from the standpoint of assuring that lack of airports will not become a bottleneck from the logistics standpoint.
International air transportation networks within the fast growing and increasingly important Asian region, and between Asia and the US and Europe are developing rapidly. Asian countries are aggressively developing building airports to cope with the growing international air transportation networks.
To cope with the expected increase in demand, development of key points of international exchanges, centering on into national hub airports is also an urgent issue for Japan, a leading S. E. Asian country. These issues are not unique. They are also important from the standpoint of the international society, with its increasing mutual inter-dependence.
With the maturing of the economy and society, uninterrupted growth, seen in the past, is unlikely. The timing of development of international hub airports must not be missed since it should be viewed as an important....
