Seven commercial service airports and 90 general aviation airports comprise the Oregon system. Oregon\u2019s economy reflects a rich diversity of economic activity in the state that includes both high tech and natural and agricultural resource industries. During the past three decades, Oregon made the transition from a resource- based economy to a more mixed manufacturing and marketing economy, with an emphasis on high technology. Oregon\u2019s hard times of the early 1980s signaled basic changes had occurred in traditional resource sectors\u2014 timber, fishing, and agriculture\u2014 and the state and industry worked to develop new economic sectors to replace older ones. Most important, perhaps, was the state\u2019s growing high-tech sector, which centered in the three counties around Portland. However, rural Oregon counties were generally left out of the shift to a new economy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Population in Oregon is concentrated in a growing metropolitan area that spans from Portland and the Willamette Valley along Interstate 5 as far south as Eugene. It is on this corridor that the largest concentration of commercial air service activity and general aviation operations take place. Not surprisingly, since population correlates directly with aviation activity, Oregon\u2019s population is also concentrated in Oregon Department of Transportation\u2019s (ODOT) Connect Oregon Regions 1 and 2 where 75 percent of the state\u2019s population reside. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Forecasts of aviation activity are used to identify expected activity levels and based aircraft at individual airports in the system. A statewide perspective on aviation activity also affords the opportunity to examine the context for changes at Oregon airports. Where individual master plans or Airport Layout Plans (ALPs) look in detail at the local situation,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[21,20,32,22,23,24,33,25,29,27,28,26,30],"yoast_head":"\n