Airport Analysis, Planning and Design: Demand, Capacity, and Congestion

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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