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Airline Planning and Operations
Published in Milica Kalić, Slavica Dožić, Danica Babić, Introduction to the Air Transport System, 2022
Milica Kalić, Slavica Dožić, Danica Babić
When it comes to benefits that the member airlines have, strengthening their own brand through the brand of the alliance and other members is one of the benefits worth mentioning. Through cooperation, defined by various agreements, the members exchange valuable knowledge and their practical application, especially in the field of security, services provided, and operational efficiency. For airlines wishing to become members of the alliance, a desired standard relating to the level of service must be met. When an airline joins the alliance, it expands its route network through partnerships and various agreements within the alliance. To achieve cost savings, the member airlines maximize airport capacity utilization by sharing the working space and terminals at airports. Their check-in counters are located in one place, staff is combined for better efficiency, ground handling costs are reduced, and the use of airport lounges is optimized.
Navigation
Published in Suzanne K. Kearns, Fundamentals of International Aviation, 2018
To manage incoming aircraft, airport terminal airspace is typically controlled, and pilots and controllers must follow specific procedures when aircraft take off and depart the airport area and when they are approaching to land. These procedures standardize the flow of traffic so that the locations of arriving and departing aircraft are predictable and organized.
An optimization approach to the scale of port cold-chain dedicated terminals considering uncertainties
Published in Engineering Optimization, 2022
Qianli Ma, Baiyu Ma, Ying He, Weimeng Sun
The storage yard is the main facility and area for cargo loading and unloading, storage and handover. It has a great impact on the production efficiency of the terminal, and the design of its scale has been widely investigated by many scholars, especially in the area of container terminal capacity (Brinkmann 2005; Chu and Huang 2004; Kim and Kim 1998; Lee, Lee, and Chew 2014; Petering 2011). In the process of operation, the terminal logistics system is faced with a lot of uncertainties, which bring great challenges to the planning and design of the terminal and the determination of its scale. Scholars have analysed these uncertainties in depth to guide port planning (Antonio and Novaes 2012; Martin, Kim, and Marchán 2015), berth allocation (Moorthy and Teo 2006) and fleet transportation schemes (Pujawan et al. 2015).
Methodology for defining the new optimum level of service in airport passenger terminals
Published in Transportation Planning and Technology, 2021
In these circumstances, the current and improved LOS standard for airport terminals by IATA (2019) (hereafter LOS-2019) deals with both space provision (spatial LOS) and waiting time (temporal LOS) for each service element within the airport terminal. The service level is segmented into three levels – suboptimum, optimum, and overdesign. International passenger terminal buildings generally consist of processing facilities (i.e. check-in desk, security checkpoint and emigration) and holding facilities (i.e. public departure hall and boarding gates). According to the 10th edition of Airport Development Reference Manual (IATA 2015), terminal facilities that are designed according to the LOS parameters for optimum levels (which are provided as a range of values) would provide the following benefits: space to accommodate all necessary functions in a comfortable environmentstable passenger flows with acceptable waiting timesan overall good service (comfort level) to passengers at a reasonable cost, andbalance economic terminal dimensions with passenger expectations.
Developing the seaport container terminal layout to enhance efficiency of the intermodal transportation system and port operations – case of the Port of Montreal
Published in Maritime Policy & Management, 2022
Tareq Abu Aisha, Mustapha Ouhimmou, Marc Paquet, Julio Montecinos
The container terminal problems can be divided into three levels, as illustrated in Figure 3, including: (1) terminal design problems, (2) operative planning problems, and (3) real-time planning problems. The terminal design problems include multi-modal interfaces, layout of the terminal, selection of equipment, capacity of the berth, and IT-systems. Since these problems are associated with linking the terminal with different modes of transportation and equipment selection, the issues at this level significantly affect the terminal layout. However, the problems at this level have to be investigated from performance, economic, and technical perspectives (Kim and Hans-Otto 2007).