ABSTRACT
RESEARCH PAPER: The Effect of the New Expansion of King Abdul-Aziz International Airport
in Jeddah on the Urban Context.
STUDENT: Ibrahim A. Altasan
DEGREE: Master of Urban and Regional Planning
COLLEGE: College of Architecture and Planning
DATE: July, 2013
PAGES: 91
Expanding airports are a common thing that is currently occurring in many cities around
the world. This massive airport expansion will lead to a wide range of implications and effects on
many aspects such as land use, transportation, ownership, and housing prices. Therefore, the
new expansion of King Abdul-Aziz International Airport in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia will impact the
roads that lead to the airport especially on land use and transportation. This expansion is
needed to be studied in order to minimize the negative impact and increase the positive
impacts. A two airport expansion that occurred recently have been examined as a case study
approach. As a result, the expansion will affect the land use on the roads that leading to the
airport by making it compatible with airports such as hotels and commercial uses. The
expansion will also affect the roads by making all the intersections free by building tunnels. After
all, airports expansion will have a huge impact that is needed to be taking into consideration and
addressed while the airport is planned to be expand not after.