where will the airport land?

WHERE WILL THE AIRPORT LAND?

A NARRATIVE ABOUT THE LOCATIVE UNCERTAINTY OF THE NEW LISBON AIRPORT

THE SPOTIA PROJECT (CEG-Univ. Lisboa; CES-Coimbra; IST-CESUR)

Sustainable Spatial Policy Orientations and Territorial Impact Assessment - Contribution to

Portuguese context

Project purposes:

• studying the Portuguese plans and programmes;

• assessing how they intervene in territorial development;

• analyzing them within the mainland regions.

Case studies:

- the New Lisbon Airport (NLA);

- the Portuguese high-speed rail (HSR);

- the Multiple-Purpose Undertaking of Alqueva (EFMA), a project linked to the Alqueva Dam.

SUSANA MARREIROS | JORGE GONÇALVESWHERE WILL THE AIRPORT LAND? A NARRATIVE ABOUT THE LOCATIVE UNCERTAINTY OF THE NEW LISBON AIRPORT

PURPOSE

Overview of the New Lisbon Airport’s (NLA) recent history (2007 – 2012) as it was

portrayed in the media and intersect that information with the airport legislation

released during the same time slot.


RESEARCH/ANALYSIS STEPS PLAN

News2007-2012

Categorisation of all the news

Yearly progress graph

Selection of the most relevant news

Quarterly calendar

Timeline

Decision-making documents /

legislation


THE AIRPORT AS A CATALYST FOR...

• the economy

– potential for being a hub

– potential for air cargo

– “peak hour” surcharge

• employment

– 10% more passengers → 1% increase more employment in service-related businesses (Brueckner,

2003)

– direct and derived effects

• regional development


THE LISBON METROPOLITAN AREA: AIRPORT/AIRFIELD INFRASTRUCTURES


News2007-2012



Selection of the most relevant news

Quarterly calendar

Timeline


legislation


2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 20120%

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Delays

Locative uncertainty

Portela+1

Alcochete

Ota


YEARLY PROGRESS

News2007-2012



Selection of the most relevant

news

Quarterly calendar

Timeline


legislation


Confirmation and re-confirmation of the

Ota airport

Ota questioned. Southern side: desert

or opportunity?

Studies frozen for the Ota airport, and

developed for the Southern side

Ota and Alcochete in collision. The studies

continue. Guaranteed funding

Airport in Alcochete announced

Ota option set aside “permanently"

Compensations to the West and work begins

in Alcochete

"Guarantee" of constructions for 2009

Contest about E.I. announced by the

NAERConvictions and delays

NLA stays in the plans and expenses, with a

reticent public opinion

Insistence for the public works

Conditions to go forward but

uncertainty regarding the 2017 goal

More delays, postponements and

contradictions

Even though the TGV is cancelled, the NLA

stays

NLA under pressure despite the

Government’s guarantees

Results of the crisis in the NLA NLA reevaluated End of the NAER

announcedNLA will not go

forward. Portela+1 option weighted

Portela+1 is the most debated option

Passos doesn’t want the NLA. Portela+1

idea remains

Decision about the NLA delayed for another 15 years

1st trimester 2nd trimester 4th trimester3rd trimester

2007

2008

2010

2011

2012

2009


Type of document Date Description

Decree-Law September 2007

Creates a system of services acquisition in order to conduct a compared technical analysis of the different locative alternatives for the NLA.

Resolution of the Council of Ministers January 2008 Ratifies the LNEC report that compares the alternatives for the NLA and defines actions that have to be

developed for the implementation of the project.

Resolution of the Council of Ministers May 2008 Adopts the conclusions and recommendations of the LNEC report, and confirms the approval of the NLA

location in Alcochete.

Decree July 2008 Creates preventive measures for the Alcochete area where the NLA is planned to be built and its surrounding areas.

Law August 2008 Revokes the law that extended the term of preventive measures of soil occupation in the Ota area.

Resolution of the Council of Ministers March 2010 Creates preventive measures for two years (extendable for one more year), for areas needed to build the

train connection to the NLA.

Resolution of the Council of Ministers July 2010 Extends, for one year, the preventive measures in the area planned for the construction of the NLA and its

surrounding areas.

Resolution of the Council of Ministers November 2011

Approves the Strategic Transport Plan which supports the idea of rethinking and reflecting about the NLA with an approach towards keeping the Portela airport and the possibility of converting an airfield infrastructure into a small airport for low-cost companies.


2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 20120%

10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%

100%

Delays

Locative uncertainty

Portela+1

Alcochete

Ota

CONCLUSIONS

The mutations that occurred throughout this 6-year period generate multiple consequences, which can be

caused by legal documents that impose preventive measures or by rules from land management instruments.

The consequences are:

• when the location, the characteristics or the temporal materialisation of this kind of infrastructure change,

the whole economic, social and territorial framework is strongly affected;

• even if nothing changes formally – as it is happening now – the indefinition still results in costs, since

contradictory expectations continue to be fueled, making it impossible to set a consistent and articulated

path towards the development of the territory.


WHERE WILL THE AIRPORT LAND?A NARRATIVE ABOUT THE LOCATIVE UNCERTAINTY OF THE NEW LISBON AIRPORT

Projecto SPOTIA: Orientações de Política Territorial Sustentável e Avaliação de Impactes Contributos para o caso português (PTDC/CS-GEO/105452/2008).Coordinated by CEG-Univ. Lisboa; with the participation of CES-Coimbra and IST-CESUR.

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