airport expansion
Runway capacity increase
Airport expansion is the enlargement of an airport's capacity or facilities—additional runways, terminals, or parking structures.
The term often appears in debates over noise, environmental impact, and economic development: Residents opposed the airport expansion, citing increased traffic and pollution.
The airport expansion will add two new terminals and create thousands of jobs.
- runwayPaved path for planes
- terminalAt the endpoint
- constructionProcess of building something
- growthIncrease in size
- congestionExcessive accumulation causing blockage
noise · local residents · protests · development · capacity · air traffic · flights · flight path · passengers · gates · tarmac · bulldozers · zoning · traffic · controversy · infrastructure · land · green belt
- infrastructure projectsroad building, bridge construction, bridge repair, tunnel boring, railway construction
- developmentshousing development, condo development, master-planned community, subdivision, housing project
- transport policyhighway funding, congestion pricing, fuel taxes, infrastructure funding, highway tolls
- Types of Expansionurban sprawl, empire building, colonization, annexation, business growth
- aviation pollutionaircraft noise, carbon emissions, contrails, emissions, engine emissions
- megastructuresDyson sphere, space habitat, space elevator, arcologies, arcology