This book presents a comprehensive analysis and modelling of demand, capacity, quality of services, economics, and sustainability of the air transport system and its main components - - airports, airlines, and ATC/ATM (Air Traffic Control/Management). Airports consist of the airside and landside area characterized by their capacities for handling demand such as aircraft, air passengers, and air freight/cargo shipments. Regarding spatial configuration, airlines generally operate hub-and-spoke (conventional or legacy airlines) and point-to-point (LCCs - Low Cost Carriers) air route networks. Their fleets consisting of different aircraft types provide transport capacity for serving demand including air passengers and freight/cargo shipments. The ATC/ATM includes the controlled airspace, traffic management and control facilities and equipment on the ground, space, and on board aircraft, and the ATC Controllers). They all provide capacity to handle demand consisting of the flights between origin and destination airports carried out by airline aircraft. The outcome from the interrelationships between demand and capacity at these components materializes as the quality of services. At airports and airlines this is generally expressed by congestion and delays of aircraft, air passengers, and freight/cargo shipments. At ATC/ATM, this is expressed by delays, horizontal and vertical in-efficiency, and safety of flights. Economics of each component relate to its revenues, costs, and profits from handling demand, i.e., providing services of given quality. The sustainability of air transport system has become increasingly important issue for many internal and external actors/stakeholders involved to deal with. This has implied increasing the system’s overall social-economic effects/benefits while reducing or maintaining constant impacts/costs on the environment and society at both global and regional/local scale under conditions of continuous medium- to long term growth.
Author(s): Milan Janić
Publisher: CRC Press
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 390
City: Boca Raton
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Preface
Contents
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
1. Introduction
1.1 Air Transport System
1.2 Airports
1.2.1 Demand, Capacity, and Quality of Services
1.2.2 Economics
1.3 Airlines
1.3.1 Demand, Capacity, and Quality of Services
1.3.2 Economics
1.4 ATC/ATM (Air Traffic Control/Management)
1.4.1 Demand, Capacity, and Quality of Services
1.4.2 Economics
1.5 Sustainability
1.5.1 General
1.5.2 Energy/Fuel Consumption and Emissions of GHG (Green House Gases)
1.5.3 Land Use
1.5.4 Congestion and Delays
1.5.5 Noise
1.5.6 Air Traffic Incidents/Accidents
1.5.7 Contribution to Social-Economic Welfare
1.6 Concluding Remarks
References
2. Airports
2.1 Introduction
2.2 The System
2.2.1 General
2.2.2 Airside Area
2.2.3 Landside Area
2.2.4 Integrated Layout
2.2.5 Supporting Facilities and Equipment
2.2.6 Staff/Employees
2.3 Demand and Capacity
2.3.1 Demand
2.3.2 Modelling Demand
2.3.3 Capacity
2.4 Quality of Services
2.4.1 General
2.4.2 Airside Area
2.4.3 Landside Area
2.5 Economics
2.5.1 General
2.5.2 Airside and Landside Area
References
3. Airlines
3.1 Introduction
3.2 The System
3.2.1 Aircraft
3.2.2 Route Networks
3.2.3 Staff/Employees
3.2.4 Fuel
3.2.5 Slots
3.3 Demand and Capacity
3.3.1 Demand
3.3.2 Capacity
3.3.3 Modelling Demand and Capacity
3.4 Quality of Services
3.4.1 Dimensions of Quality of Services
3.4.2 Modelling Quality of Services
3.5 Economics
3.5.1 Components
3.5.2 Aircraft Costs
3.5.3 Airline Costs
3.5.4 Airline Profitability
3.5.5 Modelling Airline Economics
References
4. ATC/ATM (Air Traffic Control/Management)
4.1 Introduction
4.2 The System
4.2.1 Airspace
4.2.2 Technical/Technological Components
4.2.3 Staff/Employees
4.3 Demand and Capacity
4.3.1 Demand
4.3.2 Capacity
4.3.3 Modelling Demand and Capacity
4.4 Quality of Services
4.4.1 Description
4.4.2 Delays
4.4.3 En-Route Flight Efficiency
4.4.4 Safety
4.4.5 Measures for Improving Quality of Services
4.4.6 Modelling Quality of Services
4.5 Economics
4.5.1 Description
4.5.2 System
4.5.3 Modelling Economics
References
5. Sustainability of Air Transport System
5.1 Introduction
5.1.1 General
5.1.2 Sustainability at Global Scale
5.1.3 Sustainability at Regional/Local Scale
5.1.4 Actors/Stakeholders Involved, Their Objectives and Preferences
5.2 The System Performances
5.2.1 Categories
5.2.2 Indicator Systems
5.3 Modelling Performances
5.3.1 General
5.3.2 Characteristics of GHG (Green House Gases)
5.3.3 Impacts of GHG (Green House Gases)
5.3.4 Characteristics of Air Transport System
5.3.5 Methodology for Assessing GHG Potential of Air Transport Fuels
5.3.6 Application of Methodology
References
Summary
Index
