The effect of the expansion of King Abdul-Aziz International Airport on the urban context

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Authors
Altasan, Ibrahim Abdullah
Advisor
Parker, Francis H. (Francis Haywood), 1938-
Issue Date
2013-07-20
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Thesis (M.U.R.P.)
Department
Department of Urban Planning
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Abstract

Expanding airports are a common thing that is currently occurring in many cities around the world. This massive airport expansion will lead to a wide range of implications and effects on many aspects such as land use, transportation, ownership, and housing prices. Therefore, the new expansion of King Abdul-Aziz International Airport in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia will impact the roads that lead to the airport especially on land use and transportation. This expansion is needed to be studied in order to minimize the negative impact and increase the positive impacts. A two airport expansion that occurred recently have been examined as a case study approach. As a result, the expansion will affect the land use on the roads that leading to the airport by making it compatible with airports such as hotels and commercial uses. The expansion will also affect the roads by making all the intersections free by building tunnels. After all, airports expansion will have a huge impact that is needed to be taking into consideration and addressed while the airport is planned to be expand not after.

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