A policy critique of Stansted Airport's expansion to 25 million passengers per annum (MPPA)

In this paper we undertake a preliminary assessment of the regional planning and development implications of BAA Stansted Airport’s planning permission to grow to 25 million passengers per annum (mppa) by 2010. Our concern is not simply to consider the overall growth of the airport on the airport site itself but the nature and type of growth both on- and off-site. In this document we focus on the submitted planning permission documents and test them. The methodology we employed was to draw on published and unpublished numerical estimates of the airport’s growth – particularly including estimates produced by the airport owner, BAA, and their economic and planning consultants DTZ Pieda - and critically, and systematically analyse their figures. We adopted this approach because unless the figures which were employed in the initial calculations were correct then all of the subsequent projections which flow from them - and the polices which could then be based on them – could be flawed. The analysis is divided into two parts – firstly, are the growth forecasts correct?; and secondly, what do these forecasts actually mean in developmental terms? In effect, what we have done is to produce a critique of the existing body of evidence by questioning underpinning assumptions and then draw some preliminary conclusions for the region based on this analysis. A major focus of this report has been analyse the figures involved in the planning application to expand Stansted to 25mppa. Ironically, one of our key findings, that the local impact of Stansted’s proposed expansion in employment terms might well be less than was originally thought, might make it easier to gain the acceptance of the relevant local authorities involved to allow the development to take place. Our main overall findings are that the BAA projections over-estimate the local employment impact of the airport’s proposed growth and under-estimate its potential regional ‘transportation’ employment effect. These two findings are, of course, related to each other in important ways, and we also feel that they have potentially significant medium and long-term economic, competitiveness and planning policy implications for the East of England regio

The Better Half of Selling Separately

Separate selling of two independent goods is shown to yield at least 62% of the optimal revenue, and at least 73% when the goods satisfy the Myerson regularity condition. This improves the 50% result of Hart and Nisan (2017, originally circulated in 2012)

A Policy Critique of Stansted Airport’s Expansion to 25 Million Passenger Per Annum (MPPA)

In this paper we undertake a preliminary assessment of the regional planning and development implications of BAA Stansted Airport’s planning permission to grow to 25 million passengers per annum (mppa) by 2010. Our concern is not simply to consider the overall growth of the airport on the airport site itself but the nature and type of growth both on- and off-site. In this document we focus on the submitted planning permission documents and test them. The methodology we employed was to draw on published and unpublished numerical estimates of the airport’s growth – particularly including estimates produced by the airport owner, BAA, and their economic and planning consultants DTZ Pieda - and critically, and systematically analyse their figures. We adopted this approach because unless the figures which were employed in the initial calculations were correct then all of the subsequent projections which flow from them - and the polices which could then be based on them – could be flawed. The analysis is divided into two parts – firstly, are the growth forecasts correct?; and secondly, what do these forecasts actually mean in developmental terms? In effect, what we have done is to produce a critique of the existing body of evidence by questioning underpinning assumptions and then draw some preliminary conclusions for the region based on this analysis. A major focus of this report has been analyse the figures involved in the planning application to expand Stansted to 25mppa. Ironically, one of our key findings, that the local impact of Stansted’s proposed expansion in employment terms might well be less than was originally thought, might make it easier to gain the acceptance of the relevant local authorities involved to allow the development to take place. Our main overall findings are that the BAA projections over-estimate the local employment impact of the airport’s proposed growth and under-estimate its potential regional ‘transportation’ employment effect. These two findings are, of course, related to each other in important ways, and we also feel that they have potentially significant medium and long-term economic, competitiveness and planning policy implications for the East of England region.

Introduction

We are pleased to share with our readers this issue of the Trotter Review. The events of September 11, 2001, will forever reshape our world as we know it. In addition to the far-reaching effects of this tragedy, it has revealed our general lack of knowledge about Islam and places in the world where religion and faith shape governmental and civic engagement. In crisis often comes opportunity. This opportunity to learn more about other religions and cultural pluralism is positive. It underscores the continuing importance of education and learning in today\u27s world. So I think it particularly appropriate that this issue of the Trotter Review focuses on Race, Ethnicity and Public Education

The social conscience of English Baptists in the later nineteenth century: with special reference to the work of Dr. John Clifford

Social progress is the result not only of what men do in a particular period of history, but how those of later generations build upon the labor of their fathers. As John Clifford desired that he and his contemporaries should fulfil the dream of their Baptist forbears For a Christian society, so men of my generation search for solutions to the current social problems.A study of the social conscience among English Baptists in the later nineteenth century should help to clarify the role of the Church in society in the mid-twentieth century which faces problems similar to those of a century ago. What is the Church's responsibility for solving social problems? Must she aid men in their adjustment to life as it is, or must she awaken a slothful society to the perils of its own weaknesses? How can the Church make her contribution to the world in which, she lives? What insight can the Church in the mid-twentieth century gain from the English Baptists of three quarters of a century ago?This paper does not attempt to prove any preconceived hypotheses, but to present the material in such a way that the English Baptists can speak according to the social conscience which was among them. "Social conscience" is understood to be the sensitiveness to weaknesses within the social orders the compulsion to warn, to accuse, and to reproach man for his immoral treatment of another man; and the ability to speak and to act according to convictions.The limitations for specific study have been set at 1870 and 1906 for various reasons. This period defined "later nineteenth century" and, at the same time, allowed me to study the continuation of nineteenth century ideas for a brief time in the twentieth century, especially as seen in F. 8, Meyer, George White, and William Willis. Of course, John Clifford was studied to the end of his life in 1923.Furthermore, from about 1870 to the end of the century, many social changes took place rapidly. The survey in Chapter One gives a sketch of some of these changes. By 1907 Nonconformists had an intense interest in the social conditions of the people, and the "social gospel" had obtained widespread support among them, although it was not, as yet, anything like a party among them. After this date, Nonconformist churches began to abandon their nineteenth century individualism, and substantial changes were noticeable in Baptist social thinking. Extension of the research to 1906 carried the study to a mid-point between the turn of the century and the beginning of World War I, which marked a new era

CHARITIES - CAPACITY OF AN UNINCORPORATED ASSOCIATION TO ACT AS TRUSTEE OF A CHARITABLE TRUST

The residuary clause of testatrix\u27s will directed that the remainder of the estate after the rest and remainder has been converted into money by my executor . . . I give, devise and bequeath to the Old Order Church, . . . to be invested and reinvested among the members of the said church, and the income derived therefrom to be used for the benefit of the said Church. The church named was an unincorporated association and the heirs claimed that as such it had no capacity to take the bequest, either in its own right or as trustee. The court interpreted the, residuary clause as a gift to the association as trustee for a charitable purpose and held, though an unincorporated association is not a competent trustee, the appointment of the subsequently incorporated church was valid. Barnhart v. Bowers, 143 Kan. 866, 57 P. (2d) 60 (1936)

Telling the Story of the Early Black Aviators

The story of America’s early black aviators from the 1920s and 1930s has been one of the neglected themes in American aviation history. My interest in this topic began with research into family history. My mother’s uncle, J. Herman Banning, was a pioneer black aviator during this nation’s Golden Age of Aviation. I remember my mother, aunt, and grandmother talking about J. Herman Banning back when I was little, and in my teenage years I tried to find out more than I had learned from these family stories and photographs, but it was difficult for me to locate any information about Banning or any of his peers from the usual sources. As I continued my education I continued to pursue the history of Banning and other blacks from this era, but the process proved to be very discouraging. It was not until the late 1970s, when I found out that the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum was thinking of organizing an exhibit on America’s early black aviators, that I became optimistic

The Discriminating Role

The controversy which arose in the summer of 1968 over the nomination of Mr. Justice Abe Fortas to be Chief Justice of the United States has raised serious questions about the proper role of the Senate in advising and consenting to such nominations. That Sen. Hart’s remarks may be read in perspective, it should be mentioned that he supported strongly the nomination of Mr. Fortas. Hart believes that were it not for the unique circumstances of the summer of 1968- the erosion of the power of the President with the approach of a political campaign, the nearness of the end of the legislative session, and the opportunity the nomination afforded for political attacks on the Court and the President-the nomination would have been endorsed by a majority of Sen. Hart’s colleagues. If his view is correct, then the nomination procedure established by the Constitution was thwarted by a minority of the Senate who turned events to their advantage and were indifferent to the support given the nominee by the bar, by the academic community, by businessmen who recognized his perceptive handling of their problems and by the deprived members of our society who felt his concern for them

The determination of elastic constants by piezo-electric methods

The relationships existing between the elastic constants and the frequencies of the natural modes of vibration of a finite plate of homogeneous material have never received a rigorous formulation. On the other hand, the solution of the relationships between elastic constants and natural frequencies of an infinite plate is rigorous;In the evaluation of the elastic constants of a material, an infinite plate can be approximated, either by making use of large, thin quartz plate or by using harmonica of the fundamental modes of vibration. The latter method was used in this investigation because of its greater accuracy;When a crystal plate is vibrating with a fundamental mode or a harmonic of this mode, the wave planes of the standing waves which are produced are parallel to the surfaces of the plate. Thus, as the order of this harmonic becomes progressively higher, more wave planes are crowded between the surfaces of the plate, and so the size of the plate becomes larger in comparison with each wave length, approximating ever closer the theoretical infinite plate. (Abstract shortened by UMI.