A model of multi-criteria analysis to develop Italy’s minor airport system

In the forecasts related to air traffic in the period 2015-2030, as worldwide as in Italy, is expected a substantial increase in air traffic individual. In Italy, the development and increase of “individual” air traffic is closely linked to the construction of a network of second-level airport infrastructures for civil aviation (minor airports), suitably distributed throughout the national territory, efficient, accessible, interconnected with other means of transport and easy-to-use. A network structured in this way can also contribute to the improvement of the conditions of the context of peripheral areas. The model of multi-criteria analysis proposed is aimed to identify useful elements for supporting the choices needed to redefine Italy’s minor airport system so as to construct a second-level airport infrastructure network (nodes of a so-called “highway in the sky”) integrated with the general airport and infrastructure system and aimed at supporting local sustainable development of the different areas of Italy.