UDI Volume 68 issue 2 (Special Issue: Airport Related Spatial Development)
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Bart van der Heijden, Maurits Schaafsma
Amsterdam Zuidas - Schiphol Urban Development Issues, vol. 68(2), 27–38. https://doi.org/10.51733/udi.2020.68.14
Keywords: global city regions, mega city region, airport corridor, hub airport, substitution
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ABSTRACT
From the late 1980s onwards, Amsterdam developed into a global city region, partly thanks to the global network of air connections offered by Schiphol airport. This is reflected in the physical development of the Amsterdam Metropolitan Region where the airport corridor can be seen as a new layer in the urban form of Amsterdam as a mini-metropolis. Zuidas and Schiphol AirportCity constitute a double spatial-economic node, which is already, today, provided with multi-modal access. The challenge for airport and city is to further develop the airport corridor, called Enter NL, by extending the North-South metro from Amsterdam to Schiphol and Hoofddorp in order to facilitate spatial development and create capacity on the existing rail infrastructure. That capacity is needed for additional international high speed trains to provide better connections to north-west European metropolitan regions thus substituting for planes on distances up to 500 kilometres. Connectivity provided by the airport alone does not bring economic development. The relationship between the airport and region is bi-directional. The airport needs a strong home market and the metropolitan region needs global connectivity. That may also be the case for the role of Amsterdam as a digital Mainport. This makes the link from Amsterdam, with its digital hub, hub airport and Zuidas’ business and financial services, to Eindhoven a priority. Interaction between the airport and the city from the Schiphol perspective can be optimized at levels operating on multiple scales: from the AirportCity and airport corridor to ‘borrowed size’ at the national level and a mega-city synergy with high speed rail within north-western Europe.
From the late 1980s onwards, Amsterdam developed into a global city region, partly thanks to the global network of air connections offered by Schiphol airport. This is reflected in the physical development of the Amsterdam Metropolitan Region where the airport corridor can be seen as a new layer in the urban form of Amsterdam as a mini-metropolis. Zuidas and Schiphol AirportCity constitute a double spatial-economic node, which is already, today, provided with multi-modal access. The challenge for airport and city is to further develop the airport corridor, called Enter NL, by extending the North-South metro from Amsterdam to Schiphol and Hoofddorp in order to facilitate spatial development and create capacity on the existing rail infrastructure. That capacity is needed for additional international high speed trains to provide better connections to north-west European metropolitan regions thus substituting for planes on distances up to 500 kilometres. Connectivity provided by the airport alone does not bring economic development. The relationship between the airport and region is bi-directional. The airport needs a strong home market and the metropolitan region needs global connectivity. That may also be the case for the role of Amsterdam as a digital Mainport. This makes the link from Amsterdam, with its digital hub, hub airport and Zuidas’ business and financial services, to Eindhoven a priority. Interaction between the airport and the city from the Schiphol perspective can be optimized at levels operating on multiple scales: from the AirportCity and airport corridor to ‘borrowed size’ at the national level and a mega-city synergy with high speed rail within north-western Europe.
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