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Apr 26, 2012
Spaceports as Multi-Use Industrial Facilities: A Marketing Approach to Spaceports Development
Publication: Space 2002 and Robotics 2002
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This paper argues that the vastly different volume of traffic for spaceports and airports/seaports makes business models for the latter unsuitable for guiding spaceport development. Instead it argues that commercial spaceports must be instead viewed as multi-purpose industrial facilities. It then proposes a new model of a spaceport as ah engine for regional economic growth by attracting multiple industries to the facility.
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© 2002 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published online: Apr 26, 2012
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ASCE Technical Topics:
- Air transportation
- Airports and airfields
- Buildings
- Business management
- Commercial buildings
- Engineering fundamentals
- Engines
- Equipment and machinery
- Facilities (by type)
- Industrial facilities
- Infrastructure
- Marketing
- Models (by type)
- Practice and Profession
- Structural engineering
- Structures (by type)
- Traffic engineering
- Traffic management
- Traffic models
- Traffic volume
- Transportation engineering
- Urban and regional development
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Thomas L. Matula, Ph.D.
University of Houston - Victoria, 550 Julie Rivers Dr., Suite 330, Sugar Land, TX 77478
Darryl J. Mitry, Ph.D.
National University, 12055 N. Torrey Pines Rd, La Jolla, CA 92037
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