Investigating the Implications of the London Heathrow Airport Expansion for the Landside Freight Industry

The air cargo industry is hugely important to national economies, trade, and development. Thus far, there has been limited research on the landside freight industry. Therefore, purpose of this paper extend understanding how alterations in impact its counterpart. It also seeks explore potential opportunities challenges presents, as well measures that can be taken mitigate unsustainable development for Semi-structured interviews were used collect views key stakeholders, experts, other professionals. Our findings show that, if airport expansion went ahead, would generally outweigh challenges. Increased activities positive spinoffs result long-term. employment prime implications. Conversely, increased delays due congestion was main negative implication. Measures suggested adverse effects London Heathrow Airport (LHR) entailed strengthening consolidation centre efforts, collaboration, intelligent booking systems, use low-carbon technologies, smart scheduling revising timetabling deliveries, greater rail transport cargo. highlights novel insights regarding existing freight-related issues from academic further thoughts relation stemming LHR expansion.