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Summary
There are 27 general aviation airports in the NJTPA Region. In preparing this report, visits were made to each of the 19 “Core” airports in the region. Core airports are those designated by the NJDOT as being essential to the continuance and preservation of general aviation in New Jersey. Newark-Liberty International, as a major commercial hub, was not included. Nor were the five privately-owned non-Core facilities in the region. The primary purpose of these visits was to interview the owners /operators of these airports for general information, signage (wayfinding) needs and access issues, if any. With very few exceptions, lack of signage leading to the airports was a major issue. This report will serve as a basis for further investigation and collaboration with NJDOT and county and municipal officials looking to establish uniform signage placement.
Section 1. The NJTPA General Aviation Task
The NJTPA, as the Metropolitan Planning Organization for the 13 northern and central New Jersey counties, focuses its planning activities on "surface" transportation -- principally involving roads, bridges, trains, walking and biking. Air transportation has been the purview of state government (the Division of Aeronautics in the New Jersey Department of Transportation) and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (which owns and operates the region's four largest airports). However, surface and air transportation are integrated into the larger multi-modal transportation system. In particular, people and businesses use the road network to access airports. But there are also economic connections: airports play a role in commerce that affects the health of the state's economy and as such influences the demand for travel in all forms. Airports, by their nature, occupy large tracts of land, affecting patterns of land use and development that have implications for the transportation system.
This report represents the initial efforts of the NJTPA staff to explore these connections in the NJTPA region and to identify the issues they raise for improving the overall transportation network. The report focuses on the region's "General Aviation" airports, as these have received relatively little attention and are the least well understood by many in the transportation planning community.
This overview provides a summary description of the region's airports and issues affecting them. The concluding section profiles each of the region's General Aviation airports based on field visits performed by NJTPA staff during the fall of 2006 and winter of 2007. Airport managers and operators of the region’s core airports were interviewed for their views on aviation in general and issues confronting their airports in particular.
Aviation in the NJTPA Region
This report focuses on the region’s 19 Core General Aviation (GA) airports which host some 2,900 aircraft or about 66 percent of the state's total. In addition, there are five privately-owned, public use non-Core airports with 155 based aircraft. The term "General Aviation" encompasses all aircraft operations other than scheduled airline or military flights. General aviation uses are many and varied. They include private and business flying, sport aviation, aerial photography and surveying, agricultural uses, medical emergencies and transport of donor organs, flight training and use by police and firefighters. Types of general aviation aircraft also vary, from small single-engine aircraft to multi-million dollar corporate aircraft with intercontinental capabilities. The region’s GA airports range in size from 73 to 850 acres. Of the region's 19 Core airports, seven are publicly owned (by municipal, county and state entities). The remaining 12 are privately owned. Statewide there are 46 GA airports and 15,000 licensed pilots.
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本文链接地址：OVERVIEW OF THE REGION 'S General Aviation Airports Final Report JUNE 2008(2)
