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SITRAER Proceedings · XIX SITRAER 2022

SITRAER Proceedings – XIX SITRAER (2022)

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Population Densities and Real Estate Development on the Alignment of São Paulo's Congonhas and Guarulhos Airports' Runways: The Replication of a Conflictual Fate

  • Luiz Henrique Werneck de Oliveira

Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC), PGT · Zukunft Consulting

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Event
XIX SITRAER – São José dos Campos, SP, Brasil, October 25–27, 2022
Volume
Proceedings of SITRAER 2022 – Air Transportation Symposium · ISSN 2448-1912
Pages
334–343
Publisher
Sociedade Brasileira de Pesquisa em Transporte Aéreo (SBTA)
Editors
Giovanna Miceli Ronzani Borille, Rogéria de Arantes Gomes, Evandro José da Silva, Mauro Caetano, Cláudia Azevedo Pereira

Abstract

Urban development surrounding commercial airports is a conflictual factor that hampers airport operations and ultimately prevents it to expand its infrastructure. São Paulo is a 12 million city with 22 million people on its metropolitan areas and is served by the more central Congonhas Airport (22 million passengers in 2019) and the larger, international Guarulhos airport (46 million passengers in 2019). Congonhas has been completely surrounded by urban development and the hypothesis of this study is to verify to what extent the same process is happening around Guarulhos. This study investigates data on population density on runway alignments as well as the trend of real estate development from 1985 to 2013 by using Geographical Information Systems’ “heat maps”. The 2010 population was computed in Census sectors within 10km radius from both airports. Real estate development of both aligned and dis-aligned radial rings from 0-2km, 2-4km, 4-6km, 6-8km and 8-10km radius were computed in several 5 (and 4) years’ periods. Results show intense real estate development northwest of Congonhas from 1985 (the year of Guarulhos airport opening) to 2004, with a similar pattern the western alignment of Guarulhos airport’ runways since 2005. High population densities are noted in 2010 also south of Congonhas and east of Guarulhos airports, where little or no real estate development was noted within the 1985-2013 period, thereby representing informal dwellings. Evidence shows that the same urban development conflicting with Congonhas Airport is being replicated in the vicinity of Guarulhos airport, already surrounded by urban development and unable to expand its runway systems, restricting capacity of São Paulo’s airports system. These facts put further challenges both for airport and urban planners to increasing airport capacity at São Paulo.

Keywords: São Paulo (Brazil); Congonhas Airport; Guarulhos Airport; Urban Sprawl; Real Estate Development

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ABNT

OLIVEIRA, Luiz Henrique Werneck de. Population Densities and Real Estate Development on the Alignment of São Paulo's Congonhas and Guarulhos Airports' Runways: The Replication of a Conflictual Fate. In: SIMPÓSIO DE TRANSPORTE AÉREO, 19., 2022, São José dos Campos. Anais [...]. São José dos Campos: SBTA, 2022. p. 334-343. ISSN 2448-1912. Disponível em: https://sitraer-sbta.org/anais-2022-sit215.html.

APA

Oliveira, L. H. W. (2022). Population Densities and Real Estate Development on the Alignment of São Paulo's Congonhas and Guarulhos Airports' Runways: The Replication of a Conflictual Fate. In G. M. R. Borille, R. A. Gomes, E. J. Silva, M. Caetano, & C. A. Pereira (Eds.), Proceedings of SITRAER 2022 – Air Transportation Symposium (pp. 334–343). SBTA. https://sitraer-sbta.org/anais-2022-sit215.html

BibTeX
@inproceedings{oliveira2022population,
  author = {Oliveira, Luiz Henrique Werneck de},
  title = {{Population Densities and Real Estate Development on the Alignment of São Paulo's Congonhas and Guarulhos Airports' Runways: The Replication of a Conflictual Fate}},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of SITRAER 2022 – Air Transportation Symposium},
  editor = {Borille, Giovanna Miceli Ronzani and Gomes, Rogéria de Arantes and Silva, Evandro José da and Caetano, Mauro and Pereira, Cláudia Azevedo},
  pages = {334--343},
  year = {2022},
  address = {São José dos Campos, SP, Brasil},
  publisher = {Sociedade Brasileira de Pesquisa em Transporte Aéreo (SBTA)},
  issn = {2448-1912},
  url = {https://sitraer-sbta.org/anais-2022-sit215.html}
}