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FALL RECAP 2018
Airport Ground Transportation Association
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Car, Shuttle, Train & Taxi News
Car, Shuttle, Train & Taxi News
Alternate Transportation Modes: Scooters
It would seem that airports would be the last transportation facilities to be concerned with new mobility options such as dockless rental bikes and small scooters that are now populating (and some say polluting) city streets. A few airports have asked AGTA for information on how others are handling these scooters when they operate within the airport terminal or pile up on their airport curb.
Users apparently let their children use them in the airport, and some apparently use them to get to the airport where they just leave them and catch their flight. As time passes, cities will pass pilot regulations to deal with these new mobility options, or in this writer’s opinion, the “gravity of economics” translated to mean the need to earn a profit, will see many of these innovative mobility solutions fade from the market as venture capital funds dry up.
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Scooting Toward Confrontation; The rapid rise of electric scooters has inspired a fierce debate over the hot new technology’s appropriate place in urban life.
Bracing for Impact; City government responses to the electric scooter explosion range from cautionary to ‘come right in.’
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Airport Car Rental Fees to Pay for Off Airport Parking
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Of importance to all airports and ground transportation operators – especially airport car rental companies, should be the current attempts by the Port of San Diego to levy a $3.50 airport car rental fee to pay for a parking garage which is 15 miles from the airport! There is an important issue here, and that is the use of aviation-generated funds for off airport projects.
There is little connection between San Diego International Airport car renters and the planned Billion Dollar Bayfront Hotel and convention center local authorities want to develop. In fact, it may be a very good investment. However, the FAA may want to question whether the additional car rental fee opens the airport up to be the piggy bank for all such developments in the future.
The original Airport and Airways Development Act was very specific that funds generated by the operation of the airport should remain with the airport, lest funds provided for airport development be drained away by cities and counties or Transportation Authorities. While airport car rental companies are primarily involved, all ground transportation users of the airport curb should insist that their fees only be used to support the airport and not external developers.
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Airport and Port end feud over rental car fee