Within the discussion about the future of the Dutch airport infrastructure, landside mobility and accessibility are important issues. An airport can be seen as a node where different transport systems meet as well as a site where businesses active in the production and distribution service sectors are located, which have a national, and above all at the regional level, an economic and spatial impact. Both functions, the transport function and the economic function, generate mobility. Unfortunately, the relation between airports, the economics of land use and mobility is not one sided but interdependent. To gain an insight into the enormous growth of airports and the implications for the demand and supply of transport facilities it is necessary to analyse the exogenous and endogenous factors which influence the development of the air transport market and the economics of land use. From this perspective, this paper describes the links between mobility, airports and land use economics. (A)
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