Abstract
The air cargo industry is hugely important to national economies, trade, and development. Thus far, there has been limited research on the landside freight industry. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to extend the understanding of how alterations in the air cargo industry impact on its landside freight counterpart. It also seeks to explore the potential opportunities and challenges this presents, as well as the measures that can be taken to mitigate unsustainable development for the landside freight industry. Semi-structured interviews were used to collect the views of key stakeholders, freight industry experts, and other professionals. Our findings show that, if the airport expansion went ahead, the opportunities would generally outweigh the challenges. Increased freight activities and other positive spinoffs would result in the long-term. Increased freight activities and employment were the prime positive implications. Conversely, increased delays due to congestion was the main negative implication. Measures suggested to mitigate the adverse effects of the London Heathrow Airport (LHR) expansion entailed strengthening of consolidation centre efforts, freight collaboration, intelligent booking systems, use of low-carbon technologies, smart scheduling for revising the timetabling of deliveries, and greater use of rail transport for air cargo. The research highlights novel insights regarding existing freight-related issues from industry and academic experts, and further thoughts in relation to increased cargo activities stemming from the LHR expansion.
Highlights
This section presents the results in relation to: Air cargo at London Heathrow Airport (LHR), types of companies, and rail and highway modes of transport. It discusses the effects of changes within the air cargo industry on its land freight counterpart
As well as more general categories to describe the types of air cargo that were handled at LHR
When asked, what types of freight do you think are handled by LHR, one academic responded that a major hub such as Heathrow handles almost every kind of freight with most of it comprising commercial products and produce, as well as some perishables, animals, dangerous goods, materials and parts, etc
Summary
The research highlights novel insights regarding existing freight-related issues from industry and academic experts, and further thoughts in relation to increased cargo activities stemming from the LHR expansion. 1. Introduction with regard to jurisdictional claims in Investigating the implications for the landside freight industry due to the expansion of London Heathrow Airport is imperative given the huge contributions of the air cargo industry to national economies, trade, and development. It is an opportune time to investigate the implications for the landside freight industry, which is integral to the supply chain and the wider economy. Air cargo includes freight commodities of all kinds, including small-package counter services, and express and priority reserved freight services These are goods travelling through the airport for onward shipment, according to Heathrow
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