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Published in Milica Kalić, Slavica Dožić, Danica Babić, Introduction to the Air Transport System, 2022
Milica Kalić, Slavica Dožić, Danica Babić
Generally, the apron is the part of an airport used by aircraft for passenger embarcation /disembarcation and baggage/cargo loading and unloading. The ground handling process includes marshalling, choking, and connection/disconnection of ground services, baggage and freight handling, aircraft towing, refuelling, toilet and water servicing, aircraft cleaning, catering, provision of documents, high pressure air, engine and fuselage examination, and maintenance, pushback, and de-icing. The aircraft is supplied with fuel by tank vehicles or through hydrants where the fuel comes through pipes installed under the platform, which are connected to a fuel reservoir (Mirković and Tošić 2012). When the majority of the above-mentioned activities are completed, the passengers will board and luggage and cargo will be loaded.
Identification and evaluation of safety risks on aprons
Published in Vladimír. Socha, Lenka Hanáková, Andrej Lališ, New Trends in Civil Aviation, 2018
D. Liptáková, J. Kolesár, E. Jenčová, V. Begera
Aircraft ground handling defines the servicing of an aircraft while it is on the ground and parked at a terminal gate of an airport (Ferenc, Koscak, & Ferencova 2012). The major categories of ground handling services are:Cabin Service: aim is ensure passenger comfort (cabin cleaning, washable items like pillows and blankets).Catering: includes the unloading of unused food and drink from the aircraft and the loading of fresh food and drink.Ramp Service: includes guiding the aircraft into and out of the parking position; towing with pushback tractors; lavatory drainage; water cartage; air conditioning; luggage handling; air cargo handling; refueling; passenger stairs; deicing, etc.
The management of safety on the airport ramp
Published in Neil Johnston, Nick McDonald, Ray Fuller, Aviation Psychology in Practice, 2017
Aircraft ground handling comprises all those operations servicing an aircraft during a normal turnaround between landing and departure, including marshalling, chocking, refuelling, servicing water, toilets and catering, passenger embarkation/disembarkation, the loading and unloading of baggage and freight and aircraft towing and pushback. It is an integral part of the aviation flight cycle upon which both the safety and efficiency of aviation operations crucially depend.
Scheduling optimisation of multi-type special vehicles in an airport
Published in Transportmetrica B: Transport Dynamics, 2022
Yonghong Liu, Jianjun Wu, Jie Tang, Weiping Wang, Xiaofei Wang
With the rapid development of the global civil aviation industry, airport ground services have received increasing attention in the recent past. The civil aviation industry of China completed almost 660 million passenger trips in 2019, up 7.9% from the previous year (Statistical Bulletin on the Development of Civil Aviation Industry 2019). The significant increase in air traffic has led to increasingly congested airports and severe flight delays (Global Airport & Airline Punctuality Report 2019). Hundreds of aircraft travel every day for many international airports, which is a significant challenge for ground handling services. Resource allocation and scheduling of airport ground handling services, such as the airport runway assignment problem (Chandrasekar and Hwang 2015), aircrew-scheduling problem (Wen et al. 2020), boarding gate allocation problem (Dorndorf, Jaehn, and Pesch 2008), and the ground support vehicle scheduling problem (Kasemsontitum and Tembundit 2012), has become a hot research topic. As an important part of airport operation management, special vehicle scheduling directly impacts the safety and normal operation of flights. An efficient scheduling plan can effectively improve an airport’s ground support capabilities and flight punctuality rate (Öner, Gultekin, and Koç 2020). Therefore, the rational dispatch of special vehicles has essential research significance. This paper addresses the operational scheduling problem of special vehicles as part of the turnaround process.
Development of a multicriteria decision-making model for selecting optimal aviation fatigue measurement methods
Published in International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics, 2022
Hamad Rashid, Salaheddine Bendak
It is plausible to conclude that fatigue is a great concern in contemporary aviation operations, mainly due to long and changing workday durations, circadian disruptions and insufficient sleep. This applies to pilots and other crew members as well as to air traffic controllers and airport ground handling personnel [17,19,20]. Nevertheless, fatigue in aviation has always been looked at either from an academic point of view or from an operational perspective, but in seemingly separate tracks. At the same time, there are numerous, and sometimes confusing, methods to measure fatigue in aviation [6]. All of this makes it hard for decision-makers to decide on the best methodology to measure fatigue and adopt fatigue mitigation techniques accordingly. This study aims to propose a multicriteria decision-making (MCDM) model, the aviation fatigue measurement selection model (AFMSM). This model will enable airlines, as technology users, to decide on the optimum combination of aviation human fatigue measurement methods they can apply to their air and ground crews based on their preferences and circumstances.
About One Way to Increase the Accuracy of Navigation System for Ground Wheeled Robot Used in Aircraft Parking
Published in Smart Science, 2020
Alexander I. Chernomorsky, Konstantin S. Lelkov, Eduard D. Kuris
Many scientists, both domestic and foreign, have already studied the problem of the accuracy of the navigation system for a ground wheeled robot, which is used in aircraft parking. Thus, Tabares and Mora-Camino [15] analyzed the current state of the ground handling of aircraft at airports. Various robotics have been discussed in the works of M. Ben-Ari and F. Mondada [16], H. Peel, S. Luo, A.G. Cohn, R. Fuentes [17], Yasin et al. [18] and others. Navigation systems have become the subject of study by such authors as M. Mostafa, S. Zahran, A. Moussa, N. El-Sheimy, A. Sesay [19], Ch. Sprunk, B. Lau, P. Pfaff, W. Burgard [20] and others.