Infraestrutura aeroportuária e o desenvolvimento regional o caso do Estado da Paraíba

Abstract

This study provides an overview of the policies of public investment in Brazil and specifically in the airport system of the State of Paraíba, analyze its possible effects on the levels of local development, identify the role of airports in regional development projects in Brazil, as well as raising and present data on the national and state planning and growth of air transport. The perspective was grounded in the debate on the relationship between investments in infrastructure and promoting economic development. It is important to note that currently the national air transport has shown an unprecedented growth and continues to promote links and integrating the various regions of the country, resulting in the internalization process of growth and economic development. The methodology, descriptive, is the central concern of providing greater familiarity with the subject. It combines the analysis of statistics on the growth of the national air transportation in our state and compared the evolution of GDP - Gross Domestic Product, as well as analysis of documents in which public policies are formulated in the area, so it was a series interviews with public managers, travel agents and users of the Airport President John Suassuna, in Campina Grande-PB. Our main goal is to draw a picture of the policies of public investment in national airport system and Paraíba and analyze the possible effects on the levels of development of the state. Among the main findings of our study highlight the following: a) The national airline industry is dynamic and efficient, and presented a significant growth in recent years, and can aspire to higher levels of future growth, these advances, however, showed the bottleneck of transportation national air implementing a series of challenges, not least because the airport infrastructure has not grown at the same pace with demand. b) Public policies for the airport sector in Paraíba have not matched the increase in demand by air in the state of the 14 airfields registered and approved in Paraiba; six are banned because they present risks for air operations. c) The low level of investment in airport infrastructure in our state is a major obstacle to the growth of air transport in the region. d) The key issue for aerodromes Paraíba is the lack of clear vision of their roles, in contrast to the roles of authorities concerned. They are responsible for formulating public policy course, to support interventionist actions in airports and understand them as partof a regional development project.