Discussions / Findings
Before making conclusions about the airport assessment, the 'reclass' module is employed to categorize the suitability of current airport location relative to all factors. The final image of the evaluation is as follows.
A number of inferences can be drawn from the image, and the first one is that the airport provides lots of benefits limited to its nearby areas. In fact, areas that are close to the Canada Line obtain the most benefits compared to others. Moreover, areas that are in the vicinity of major highway and other transport routes (roads, not skytrain or bus routes) attain modest advantages from it. A reason to this can be that highways are more direct ways to airport and other places. However, majority of GVRD receive no obvious benefit s. These places can be accessible to bus routes, but they acquire bad air quality (i.e., air pollution). There are also great areas that have disadvantages. Most of them are mountainous areas in northern GVRD that only have a few accessibility means to it. Finally, it is very detrimental to small area s because it has no accessibility and commercial attribute and there is serious environmental degradation. In conclusion, only areas that are very close to the airport earn its locational benefits, whereas a lot others receive no benefit and a few distant small areas obtain its negative impacts.