New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2009. XIV, 275 p. — ISBN 978-1-61761-560-3 (E-Book).Airports are components of the air transport system together with the ATC (Air Traffic Control), and airlines. Many existing airports have been confronted with increasing requirements for providing the sufficient airside and landside capacity to accommodate generally growing but increasingly volatile and uncertain air transport demand, efficiently, effectively, and safely. This demand has consisted of aircraft movements, passengers, and freight shipments. In parallel, the environmental constraints in terms of noise, air pollution, and land use (take) have strengthened. Under such circumstances, both existing and particularly new airports will have to use the advanced concepts and methods for analysis and forecasting of the airport demand, and planning and design of the airside and landside capacity. These will also include developing the short-term and the long-term solutions for matching capacity to demand in order to mitigate expected congestion and delays as well as the multidimensional examination of the infrastructural, technical, technological, operational, economic, environmental, and social airport performance. This book provides an insight into these and other challenges, with which the existing and future airports are to be increasingly faced in the 21st century.ContentsPreface
About the AuthorIntroduction
Air Transportation
The Analysis, Planning, and Design of Airports
ReferencesThe Air Transport System
Introduction
Components and Operations
Organization and Ownership
ReferencesAirport as the System
Introduction
The Airport Infrastructure and Layout
Information Technology and Systems (ITS) at Airports
ReferencesThe Airport Demand
Introduction
The Levels of Analyzing the Airport Demand
Diversification of the Airport Demand
Methods for Analyzing and Forecasting the Airport Passenger Demand
An Application of the Econometric Methods
The Annual Volume of Traffic as the Planning and Design
Parameter
ReferencesAirport Capacity
Introduction
The Airport Landside Capacity
ReferencesAirport Congestion and Delays
Introduction
Analysis of the Airside Congestion and Delays
Modeling the Airside Congestion and Delays
ReferencesMatching the Airport Capacity to Demand in the Short-Term
Introduction
The Strategic Demand Management
The Tactical and Operational Demand Management
ReferencesMatching the Airport Capacity to Demand in the Long-Term
Introduction
ncreasing the Airport Airside Capacity by Constructing the New
Runway
Sizing and Design of the Airport Passenger Terminals
Methodology for Sizing the Airport Passenger Terminals
An Application of the Methodology for Sizing the Passenger Terminals
ReferencesThe Airport Master Plan
Introduction
The Airport Institutional Environment
The Current and Prospective Traffic between the EU and the US
Influence of the Close Competing Airports
Elaboration of the Given Airport Case
Predicting the Demand and Providing the Capacity
ReferencesFuture Airports
Introduction
An Airport as the Multimodal Transport Node
The Multidimensional Examination of Airports
Design and Operations of Future Airports
ReferencesConclusions
Index
