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Introduction
Published in Milica Kalić, Slavica Dožić, Danica Babić, Introduction to the Air Transport System, 2022
Milica Kalić, Slavica Dožić, Danica Babić
Airports represent the infrastructure in the air transport system, enabling airlines to perform air transport movements (or operations, meaning take-offs and landings), as well as to transport passengers and cargo. Airport landside area includes one or several terminals that connect the travel access mode with the air transport mode. Airport air side area covers runways, taxiways, and gates/apron complex, and it is a place where aircraft are serviced by ground handling operators/ground handling department of the airport operator at parking stands, and by ATC controllers during taxiing, take-off, or landing. Airport users are airlines and their passengers, cargo /freight shipments, mail, and aircraft.
Airports
Published in Milan Janić, System Analysis and Modelling in Air Transport, 2021
The main components of an airport ITS are: Airport ITS Communications Systems, Airline and Airside Operations Systems, Airport Landside Operations Systems, Airport Safety and Security Systems, Airport Facilities and Maintenance Systems, Airport Development Systems, and Airport Administration Systems (ACC, 2008; Janić, 2013).
Airfield design, configuration and management
Published in Lucy Budd, Stephen Ison, Air Transport Management, 2020
As well as determining the prevailing wind direction and the optimum runway orientation (Example 4.2), other important design considerations include the number and physical dimensions of runways. The total number of runways should be sufficient to meet current demand during peak operations. Careful analysis needs to be conducted to ascertain demand during the peak period and to assess whether or not it is cost-effective to build runway infrastructure that may be underutilised at other times (➤Chapter 5). Runway length is determined both by the physical attributes of the site and the performance characteristics and weight of aircraft that use the airport.
Aviation police manpower supply planning under stochastic demands for airport security inspection duties
Published in Transportation Planning and Technology, 2023
Chun-Ying Chen, Shangyao Yan, Yu-Sian Cheng
The duties of the aviation police are manifold. Among them, the most important is airport security inspection, not only to ensure national border security but also flight safety for the public. Article 47–3 of the Civil Aviation Act in Taiwan states: ‘The passenger, baggage, cargo and mail that have not been screened by the Aviation Police Office shall not board nor be loaded onto an aircraft.’ (Laws & Regulations Database of The Republic of China (Taiwan) 2018). In other words, security inspection duties encompass both outgoing and incoming security examinations. The number of aviation police security inspectors necessary to fulfill these various duties is affected by the number of flights. Differences in the number of daily passengers cause changes in duty and passenger screening demands. Improper planning can result in the ineffective use of aviation police security manpower, sometimes causing a shortage, other times a surplus. In order to achieve a balance between maintaining airport service levels (reduced waiting time for passengers) and conserving manpower resources, manpower requirements need to be adjusted according to the number of passengers that need to be processed. To alleviate this problem, this study aims to provide a method for arriving at an optimal aviation police manpower supply plan for airport security inspection duties.
Effect of space for runway roughness evaluation
Published in International Journal of Pavement Engineering, 2022
Shifu Liu, Yu Tian, Ge Yang, Jianming Ling, Peilin Li
Just as roadway pavements are designed to serve vehicles, airport runways are designed to serve aircraft. However, cars and aircraft are quite different, whether in the form of their contact with the pavement, their wheelbase, driving versus taxiing speed, mass distribution coefficient, mass, damping system, etc. In other words, under the same uneven excitation, the dynamic response of a car versus that of an aircraft could differ by several orders of magnitude (Sayer and Gillespie 1986, Chen and Chou 2004a, Ling et al. 2017). Therefore, instead of using an evaluation system for general pavement roughness, researchers have begun to recognise the characteristic differences between roadway and runway roughness in recent years and have started to seek a breakthrough regarding the vibration response law of aircraft taxiing.
Flexibility and adaptability within the context of decision-making in infrastructure management
Published in Structure and Infrastructure Engineering, 2022
Mauricio Sánchez-Silva, Wilmar Calderón-Guevara
Airports are aimed at facilitating the landing and take-off of aircrafts as well as the connections between aircrafts and passengers or cargo. The FAA establishes that ‘the objective of airport planning is to assure the effective use of airport resources in order to satisfy aviation demand in a financially feasible manner with consideration to the environment’. Airport resources include large infrastructure such as runways, terminals and service areas that ease airplanes loading, unloading, take-off and landing; these among other physical (e.g. fuel supply), technological (e.g. communications and electronic services) infrastructure, as well as many service components required to support airlines’ operation. Construction costs of international airports, range in the order of billons of dollars; therefore, it is important to define efficient strategies, in terms of costs and service quality, to build and develop the airport infrastructure so that it can accommodate a growing demand.