9.3. Questioning airport expansion
A policy position that has a city airport as a necessary node in the global economy needs to be contrasted with other positions that question the beneWts of further aviation growth, or that perhaps more pragmatically search for sustainable solutions to the demand for mobility (Van Eeten, 2001), or that even question our want of mobility. The need to reduce the need for air transport—in eVect a questioning of the “predict and provide” approach to aviation planning—was generally conWrmed by the interviewees in this study. This is in accord with the sustainable transport literature, especially in relation to aviation, which