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Krasuk, Javier. "W.I.A., Washington International Airport: a new concept in airport design." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53323.
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In the past two decades the increase in passengers and frequency of flights has caused commercial air transportation to suffer. The system in current use was designed to satisfy different needs than the contemporary ones. Airports have failed to keep up with increased demands. Movement of passengers and aircraft have not kept pace with advances in technology. Many aircraft arriving and departing simultaneously create unnecessary delays and monetary loss to commercial airlines. The present solutions were based on new additions to existing airports as well as the creation of new airports so that metropolitan flights could arrive to different locations, e.g. JFK, La Guardia and Newark in the New York area; National and Dulles in the Washington D.C. area.
The concept of the traditional airport is obsolete and needs to be completely rethought, not modified.Master of Architecture
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Leonard, Trudie. "Comparing airport apron layout designs using computer simulation and the cross-entropy method." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/17821.
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Thesis (MScEng)--Stellenbosch University, 2011.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The demand in air travel is continuously increasing. In order to handle this increase in demand, airports need to physically expand or the management of the airports needs to improve. When the demand at OR Tambo International Airport gets too high, more passengers will need to travel to Lanseria International Airport, which will therefore need to be expanded. The study was done in collaboration with Virtual Consulting Engineers, who decided that the concept of Atlanta International Airport in Georgia, USA, which is ranked the busiest airport in the world, will be used in this expansion. The aim of the study was to minimise passenger walking distances and waiting times at Lanseria International Airport. This was done by comparing di erent airport apron layouts, using simulation, and improving the aircraft gate assignment, using the cross-entropy method. Four di erent designs of airport layouts, all based on that of Atlanta International Airport, were compared in the study. A model of each was developed using simulation. The performance measures used to compare the designs included 1) the average walking distance of arriving and departing passengers at the airport, 2) the average time spent at the airport by arriving and departing passengers, 3) the average distance travelled by aircraft at the airport, 4) the average time by which each aircraft is delayed and 5) the average number of aircraft present at the airport. The walking distance of arriving and departing passengers was largely a ected by the way in which ights were assigned to gates. The gates at the airport are of three di erent sizes: small, medium and large. Small aircraft can park at any of the gates, while medium aircraft can only park at medium or large gates and large aircraft can only park at large gates. Three rules for the ight-to-gate assignment process were developed. In the rst two rules an arriving ight was assigned to the available, suitable gate closest to the terminal building. The constraint that small aircraft cannot be assigned to medium or large gates if there are small gates available and that medium aircraft cannot be assigned to large gates if there are medium gates available, was used in Rule 1 and not in Rule 2. In the third rule, metaheuristic optimisation was used to determine a ight-to-gate assignment schedule with the objective of minimising the passenger walking distances. This metaheuristic optimisation was performed in real-time and was thus repeated every time a delay occurred at the airport. The background of airports, simulation, metaheuristics and relevant case studies were investigated in the literature review. The simulation and metaheuristic optimisation models were then developed. The results identi ed the best of the four designs that were compared. It was also concluded that the use of metaheuristic optimisation, using the cross-entropy method, results in a reduction in passenger walking distances at the airport.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die aantal lugpassasiers neem aanhoudend toe en om in staat te wees om hierdie toename in vraag te hanteer moet lughawens sies uitbrei of die bestuur van die lughawens moet verbeter. Wanneer die vraag by OR Tambo Internasionale Lughawe te hoog raak, gaan meer mense na Lanseria Internasionale Lughawe moet reis. Die lughawe sal dan dus moet uitbrei. Die studie is in samewerking met Virtual Consulting Engineers gedoen. Hulle het besluit dat die konsep van Atlanta Internasionale Lughawe in Georgia in die VSA, wat die besigste lughawe in die w^ereld is, gebruik sal word in die uitbreiding Lanseria Internasionale Lughawe. Die doelwit van die studie was om die loopafstand en die wagtyd van passasiers op Lanseria Internasionale Lughawe te minimeer. Die doelwit is bereik deur verskillende lughawe uitlegte te vergelyk met behulp van simulasie en deur die toekenning van vlugte aan hekke te verbeter, deur gebruik te maak van die "cross-entropy" metode. Die konsep van Atlanta Internasionale Lughawe is gebruik om vier verskillende lughawe uitlegte te ontwerp. Simulasie is gebruik om die vier ontwerpe te vergelyk op grond van 1) die gemiddelde loopafstand van passasiers wat aankom en vertrek, 2) die gemiddelde tyd wat passasiers wat aankom en vertrek spandeer op die lughawe, 3) die gemiddelde afstand wat vliegtuie a ^e op die lughawe, 4) die gemiddelde tyd wat vliegtuie vertraag word, 5) die gemiddelde hoeveelheid vliegtuie teenwoordig op die lughawe. Die loopafstand van passasiers wat aankom en vertrek is grootliks beinvloed deur die manier waarop vliegtuie aan hekke toegeken is. Die hekke op die lughawe is klein, medium of groot. 'n Klein vliegtuig mag by 'n klein, medium of groot hek parkeer, 'n medium vliegtuig mag by 'n medium of groot hek parkeer en 'n groot vliegtuig mag net by 'n groot hek parkeer. Drie reels waarvolgens vliegtuie aan hekke toegeken kan word is ontwikkel. In die eerste twee reels word 'n vliegtuig wat aankom aan die beskikbare hek naaste aan die terminaal gebou toegeken as die hek geskik is vir die vliegtuig. In die eerste reel is die beperking dat klein vliegtuie nie aan medium en groot hekke toegeken mag word as daar klein hekke beskikbaar is nie en dat medium vliegtuie nie aan groot hekke toegeken mag word as daar medium hekke beskikbaar is nie, ingesluit. Hierdie beperking is nie in die tweede reel ingesluit nie. In die derde reel is metaheuristiek optimering gebruik om vliegtuie aan hekke toe te ken. Die doelwit van die metaheuristiek optimering was om die loopafstand van die passasiers te verminder. Elke keer as 'n vliegtuig op die lughawe vertraag was, is die optimering proses is herhaal. Die agtergrond van lughawens, simulasie, metaheuristieke en gevalle studies is bestudeer in die literatuur studie. Daarna is die simulasie en metaheuristiek optimering modelle ontwikkel. Die resultate van die studie het aangedui watter een van die vier lughawe ontwerpe die beste is. Dit is ook beslis dat die gebruik van metaheuristiek optimering, en spesifi ek die "cross-entropy" metode, die loopafstand van passasiers op die lughawe verminder.
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Hadi, Bagus P. "Design of an international terminal at Bali International Airport, Bali, Indonesia." Virtual Press, 1991. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/845983.
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Bali, an island east of Java, is one of the five international gateways connecting Indonesia with the many foreign countries from Asia, Australia, the Americas, and Europe. The island has a richness of natural scenery and cultural events based on strong Hindu's beliefs.All of these unique phenomena attract people from different cultures and nations to visit and be part of these celebrations, as well as to enjoy the warm breeze and palm trees along the beaches.A 1989 Department of Tourism, Post and Telecommunication in Indonesia's Report suggests that the number of tourist coming to private agencies are working together to improve the island'sBali increases as much as 15 percent annually ( 1989 Indonesia Hand Book). To accommodate this development, the Government and infrastructure and build accommodations which range from three to five star international hotels. The other important element that the island needs is to expandthe airport facility to accommodate the fast growing number of international flights that accommodate this.The major goal of this project is to plan and design new airport facilities with emphasis on the new design for the international terminal. This design of the new international terminal building at the Bali International Airport, Indonesia, is an attempt to introduce a new concept of a built form using vernacular architectural concepts as the starting point. The technology required by the functions inherent in the program will be used by the architect to translate these considerations into reality.The design approach for this project is mainly based on the beliefs and order which have been traditionally followed and applied by the people of Bali. However, the intention of this project is not to literally design something which has a form borrowed from the traditional form, but that which is developed beyond the traditional concept and utilized this concept in concert with modern structural engineering and materials. Therefore to ensure the success of a design for this important facility, it is imperative to find the essence and the spirit of the traditional architecture and represent them through a modern built form.Department of Architecture
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Humphry, Melinda Susan. "Four projects: gate, island, square, airport." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53131.
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"When we go wandering....it is ourselves we desire to have translated into stones and plants, and it is in ourselves that we wish to walk."
-Nietzche
What happens when a building speaks to you?
The structure makes a simple statement. That statement is reinforced by the light, the space, and the primary materials and how they are connected to the secondary materials and the tertiary materials. Attention is given to the scale of a large group of people, as well as to the scale of a man and to the size of his hand.
Unlike the familiar image of a machine, architecture retains the complexities of life and is founded on them. It develops in a variety of episodes, situations, and possible conditions. The relative juxtaposition of structured elements (walls, surfaces, structures, windows) conveys a sense of the whole. It is harmonious because it is related to a purpose. It is beautiful because it is a poetic manifestation of life. Thus, a building is a reasoned fragment, the sign of a presence. Its aesthetic is a condition discovered, not a starting point.Master of Architecture
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Ambrose, Serge. "Flying on the Edge of Sea, Land and Sky - A new passenger terminal for the Grand Bahama International Airport." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/35824.
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Ever since the airport was conceived as a permanent building type, airport designers have debated what identity an airport should embody. As a threshold of first impressions, the airport should not only introduce the visitor to the local environment but also represent the identity of a country. The aim of this thesis project is to design an airport terminal that reflects the natural and cultural environments of the islands of the Bahamas. Through its architecture, this building attempts to create an engaging experience for its users: passengers, employees and visitors. Local culture and sense of place are abstracted through architectural ideas, realized in the language of contextual modernism. The synthesis of the themes and concepts explored throughout the design process are presented through drawings and commentary. Precedents such as the Taino cosmos, color and nature, place and culture are used to inspire structural systems, form and aesthetics. The plan of the new airport terminal fulfils the functional program while interpreting the land and sea formations of the Bahama islands; ocean currents and land-sea patterns may be associated with movements of people and machines, converging and diverging within the airport environment.Master of Architecture
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Ekdahl, Skytt Jennie, and Marija Vulic. "Stockholm Arlanda Airport : En undersökning av upplevelser och logistik av en storflygplats och dess påverkan på resandet." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för ekonomi och företagande, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-17063.
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The purpose with this thesis is to investigate how the logistic and the configuration of the terminal buildings and the perceptions of the passengers at Stockholm Arlanda Airport are related to each other, and what effect it has on the passengers and their traveling within the airport. The focus will be on the logistic at all four terminal buildings that is within the Airport. To create a perception of the logistic at the Airport and how it is related to the passengers perceptions, the investigators need to make knowledge of the terminal buildings, and thereby try to link the logistic with the perception of the experience room. Swedavia is the company that own, operate at and manage Stockholm Arlanda Airport. The investigators will make an interview with employees at Swedavia to get a more profound understanding of how the company is thinking about the logistic issues that they need to overlook. There will also be interviews with travelers to get their perception of the logistic, design and atmosphere at the Airport. Observations will also be made at various times at the Airport with focus on all of the terminal buildings. The investigators use qualitative and quantitative methods to reach a result. To achieve a result, the investigators will use theories and scientific facts and other available facts that will be helpful to reach a result that will be analyzed.Denna uppsats handlar om Stockholm Arlanda Airport och syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka hur logistiken och utformningen i upplevelserummet hänger ihop, samt vilken påverkan detta har på resenärerna och resandet inom flygplatsen. Fokus kommer att läggas på logistiken i de fyra terminalbyggnaderna som finns inom flygplatsen. I undersökningen ses terminalbyggnaderna över för att skapa en uppfattning om logistiken och på så vis försöka koppla ihop logistiken med upplevelserummet. Swedavia är det företag som är verksam och driver Stockholm Arlanda Airport. Det är med de anställda inom Swedavia som intervjuer kommer att ske för att få en djupare förståelse hur företaget tänker i de logistikfrågor som eventuellt behöver ses över. Intervjuer kommer även att ske med resenärer för att få deras uppfattning om logistik, design och atmosfär inom flygplatsen. Förutom intervjuer kommer även observationer att genomföras på flygplatsen vid olika tillfällen och tider på dagen. De metoder som har använts i undersökningen för att komma fram till de resultat som behövs är kvalitativa och kvantitativa metoder. Detta uppnås genom att göra undersökningar i form av intervjuer, observationer, tillgänglig fakta, samt med hjälp av olika lämpliga teorier för att på bästa möjliga sätt komma fram till ett resultat som har analyserats fram.
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Codourey, Monika Ewa. "Airport territory as interface : mobile work and travel in hybrid space." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/9331.
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Global mobility, wireless technology and networked society are transforming the airport territory. These changes (hard factors) have been analysed in airport planning and transportation studies (Koll-Schretzenmayr 2003; Banister 2003; Schaafsma 2003; Knippenberger &Wall 2010; Salewski & Michaelli 2011; Convenz & Thierstein ed. 2014 et al) and architecture and design (Edwards 1998; Blow 2005; Cuadra 2002; Uffelen 2012; Gensler 2013 et al). But design strategies focusing on the passenger experience (soft factors) have not yet been thoroughly assimilated by architecture and design. On the theoretical level this dissertation spans the analysis of current methodologies in social studies (e.g. Castells 1996; Gottdiener 2000; Cresswell 2006; Urry, 2007; Elliott & Urry 2010; Adey 2010 et al) and their relation to architectural and urban studies concepts for the airport. The latter includes the “Airport as City” (Güller & Güller 2000), “Aviopolis – A Book about Airports” (Fuller & Harley 2005) and “Aerotropolis” (Kassarda 2010). This dissertation also explores IT and aviation industry interests at the interface between technology and air travellers. In this light aviation industry research and solutions (Amadeus 2011, SITA 2013) are important to consider, as well the philosophy behind who travels and for what purpose (Sloterdijk 1998; Koolhaas 1998; Gottdiener 2000; Urry 2007; Birtchnell & Caletrio 2014 et al). Here, the author’s previous field research at Frankfurt International Airport is relevant. We live more mobile lifestyles, we work in hybrid spaces (Suoza 2006; Duffy 2010 et al), and we consequently need to share information and collaborate differently. Using constant travellers as a case study, the impact of physical and informational mobility on perceptions of and behavioural patterns in the airport can lead to a deeper understanding of mobile work and the air travel experience. New design strategies can be developed from research about constant travellers, and the results may improve their work and air travel experience. The author’s combination of design approaches from architecture and social science (sociology and psychology) methodologies can better address the real needs of constant travellers in hybrid workspaces. It is hoped that this dissertation will inspire airport architects and designers, interaction designers and the aviation industry to pay more attention to users’ needs in their design processes.
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Bendikaitė, Renida. "Modulinių laukiamojo baldų projektas." Bachelor's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2010. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2010~D_20100902_231103-68342.
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Pateikiami trys modulinių laukiamojo baldų variantai. Pagrindinė medžiaga, iš kurios padaryti baldai, yra plastikas. Plastikiniai baldai patogūs, juos paprasta prižiūrėti, lengva pernešti iš vienos vietos į kitą, ir jie yra pigesni. Norint pakeisti baldų išdėstymą nekils problemų. Šiame projekte nėra prisirišama prie plano, moduliniai baldai projektuoti oro uosto laukiamojo salei. Tačiau juos galima pritaikyti ir kitose viešose erdvėse kaip traukinių, autobusų stotis ir t.t.
Atrinktos penkios idėjos, iš kurių trys galutinai išplėtotos. Visuose trijuose variantuose suprojektuotas šviečiantis modulis, centrinis akcentas su vandeniu, ir galimybe atsisėsti.
Pirmajį variantą sudaro šviečiantis elementas bukam kampui, metalinis elementas stačiam kampui, plastikinis elementas smailiam kampui, plastikinė kilpa, šiukšliadėžė, centrinis akcentas. Centrinis akcentas jungia grindis ir lubas, jame įrengtas LED apšvietimas, tekančio vandens atkarpa.
Antrajį variantą sudaro koriuko formos elementai – elementas atsisėsti be atlošo, šviečiantis elementas atsisėsti su atlošu, elementas su jame pasėta žole, šiukšliadėžė, centrinis akcentas. Centrinis akcentas suprojektuotas iš skirtingų dydžių korio formos marmuro plokštumų, jame įrengtas apšvietimas ir vandens telkinys.
Trečiajį variantą sudaro sėdimoji dalis, šviečiantis elementas, šiukšliadėžė, centrinis akcentas. Centriniame akcente įrengtas fontanas, padaryti platesni fontano kraštai, kad būtų galima prisėsti. Po sėdimosios dalies... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]Three variations of the modular lounge furniture are presented. The main material used to make furniture is plastic. Plastic furniture is comfortable and cheaper. It is easy to handle and move from one place to another. Therefore the change of furniture arrangement does not cause any problems. This project does not accurately follow the plan; modular furniture was designed for the airport departue lounge, but it can be adjusted to use in other public space, such as ralway or bus station, etc. Five ideas were chosen and three of them were developed till the end. All three variations include a luminous module as a central part with water and sitting possibility designed. The first variation consists of luminous element for a blunt corner, metal element for a sharp corner, plastic element for an acute corner, plastic loop, litterbin and a central part. Central part ties in a floor with a ceiling, it includes LED ilumination and running water segment installed. The second variation consists of the comb form elements – sitting element without a backrest, luminous sitting element with a backrest, element with a grass inside it, litterbin and a central part. Central part is designed using different sizes of the comb form marble flats with illumination and water body installed. The third variation consists of the sitting part, luminous element, litterbin and central part. Central part includes a fountain with wide edges to sit on. Illumination is installed under the sitting part.
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梁碧盈 and Pik-ying Blanche Leung. "Crews facilities complex for Cathay Pacific Airways at Chek Lap Kok Airport." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1995. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31982487.
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Bogicevic, Vanja. "The Effect of Airport Servicescape Features on Traveler Anxiety and Enjoyment." Scholar Commons, 2014. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4987.
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The physical attributes of the service setting are critical differentiators among service providers that significantly influence customers' emotional responses. Following the changes in the airport industry and addressing the gap in the existing research, this study aims to investigate the relationship between physical servicescape elements, emotional responses of enjoyment and anxiety and word-of-mouth in the context of airport environment.
This study was conducted in three phases. The first phase incorporated an EFA conducted on a pilot study sample of 174 respondents that proposed a six-factor structure of airport service environment. In the second phase of the study, a self-administered online questionnaire was sent to an online marketing agency, resulting in 311 valid responses. This phase included a CFA that confirmed the validity of the instrument proposed in the pilot study, recommending the following six airport servicescape factors: design, scent, functional organization, air/lighting conditions, seating and cleanliness. Finally, an SEM testing suggested that airport design features and pleasant scent have a positive influence on traveler enjoyment, further generating positive WOM. Nevertheless, poor functional organization and inadequate air and lighting conditions are major predictors of traveler anxiety that leads to negative recommendations.
According to the findings, this study offers several implications for the airport practitioners and developers. Based on the service environment frameworks established in the previous research, this study developed a valid instrument for examining travelers' perceptions of the airport environment. As a result, emphasizing hedonic attributes of the airport environment such as aroma, colors and d[eacute]cor would enhance traveler enjoyment and experience. In addition, airport practitioners are advised to provide successful wayfinding through the facility, appropriate luminosity, air conditioning, and temperature that would reduce travelers' stress and anxiety during their stay. Finally, design was showed to be the most influential environmental stimuli, justifying the need for of airport modernization and renovations.
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Napisa, Rodolfo R. "Conceptual design of a material handling system for a county airport mail center." Master's thesis, This resource online, 1997. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-12162009-020127/.
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姚淑敏 and Shuk-man Agnes Yiu. "Review on the development & construction management of the airport in Chek Lap Kok." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31251535.
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Becedas, Segerström Laura. "Considerations for a Service that enables Sharing Ride Experiences to and from the Airport." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-255018.
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Although shared mobility services provide benefits such as minimizing congestion as well as pollution and costs of transportation, barriers such as trust and convenience are blocking these services from reaching a broader audience. In this paper, considerations for a new service that aims to bring together familiar strangers to share rides to and from the airport is presented using a Research through Design approach. The familiar strangers investigated in this study are frequent travelers of Scandinavian airlines (SAS). Interviews, ideation workshops, prototyping, and feedback sessions are the design activities that were used to understand motivations behind their choice of transportation to and from the airport, and current pain points that motivate the need for such a service, as well as to guide the design directions of the service to tackle the problems of trust and convenience current shared mobility services face. The findings showed that SAS travelers are willing to share rides with others belonging to their community when living far away from transit services to and from the airport, arriving uncomfortable hours at a new destination, when there’s a potential to make new business contacts as well as when traveling with loved ones. The final design presented in this paper serves as a framework on how to design services to enable people who share common physical spaces and similar travel behavior, to share rides together.Även om “shared mobility” tjänster ger fördelar som att minimera trafikstockningar samt föroreningar och transportkostnader, finns det hinder som tillit och bekvämlighet som blockerar dessa tjänster från att nå en större publik. I den här uppsatsen presenteras omständigheter för en ny tjänst som syftar till att samla “familiar strangers” för att dela transportsätt till och från flygplatsen med hjälp av ett Research Through Design-metod. De “familiar strangers” som undersöktes i denna studie är frekventa resenärer av Scandinavian Airlines (SAS). Intervjuer, ideation workshops, prototyper och feed-back möten är de designaktiviteter som användes för att förstå motivation bakom resenärers val av transport till och från flygplatsen och aktuella smärtpunkter som motiverar behovet av en sådan tjänst samt för att styra designbeslut för tjänsten för att ta itu med problemen med förtroende och bekvämlighet som nuvarande “shared mobility” tjänster stöter på. Resultaten visade att SAS-resenärer är villiga att dela resor med andra som tillhör deras gemenskap när de bor långt ifrån transit tjänster till och från flygplatsen, när de anländer i ett nytt resmål vid obehagliga timmar, när det finns möjlighet att skapa nya affärskontakter såväl som när de reser med sina nära och kära. Den slutliga designen som presenteras i denna uppsats fungerar som en ram för hur man utformar tjänster för att möjliggöra för personer som delar gemensamma fysiska utrymmen och liknande resebeteenden, att dela resor tillsammans.
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Boughan, Trajn. "Managing architectural design under-construction : talking to build the airport railway depot, Hong Kong /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3074377.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2002.Typescript. Leaf v does not exist therefore pre-paging is misnumbered. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 256-262). Also available on the Internet.
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Wong, Ka Yick. "The modelling of accident frequency using risk exposure data for the assessment of airport safety areas." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2007. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/7964.
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This thesis makes significant contributions to improving the use of Airport Safety Areas (ASAs) as aviation accident risk mitigation measures by developing improved accident frequency models and risk assessment methodologies. In recent years, the adequacy of ASAs such as the Runway End Safety Area and Runway Safety Area has come under increasing scrutiny. The current research found flaws in the existing ASA regulations and airport risk assessment techniques that lead to the provision of inconsistent safety margins at airports and runways. The research was based on a comprehensive database of ASA-related accidents, which was matched by a representative sample of normal operations data, such that the exposure to a range of operational and meteorological risk factors between accident and normal flights could be compared. On this basis, the criticality of individual risk factors was quantified and accident frequency models were developed using logistic regression. These models have considerably better predictive power compared to models used by previous airport risk assessments. An improved risk assessment technique was developed coupling the accident frequency models with accident location data, yielding distributions that describe the frequency of accidents that reach specific distances beyond the runway end or centreline given the risk exposure profile of the particular runway. The application of the proposed methodology was demonstrated in two case studies. Specific recommendations on ASA dimensions were made for achieving consistent levels of safety on each side of the runway. Advances made in this study have implications on the overall assessment and management of risks at airports.
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Fernandes, Alicia Borgman. "Design Issues in the Development of a Distributed Adaptive Planning System for Airport Surface Management." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1339552527.
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Pang, Yiu-fai, and 彭耀暉. "Community acceptance of Tung Chung residents and the planning of the third runway in Hong Kong international Airport." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B46737571.
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Craven, Michael P. "Abstract art and controversy : a case study of Louis Bunce's airport mural and other Portland art controversies." PDXScholar, 1997. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4296.
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This thesis examines a series of controversies in Portland, Oregon during the 1950s triggered by the placement of modem art in strategic public locations. This study examines the controversy surrounding the installation of Louis Bunce's mural at the Portland International Airport and the series of modern art controversies that followed the mural incident.
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Chan, Sze-wang Frankie, and 陳仕宏. "Regional Airline Headquarters and Crew Training Centre at Chek LapKok." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31984423.
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Holováč, Marek. "Design bezojového letištního tahače." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta strojního inženýrství, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-318739.
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Topic of this thesis is concept design of high power towbarless aircraft tractor. Concept brings up different form design for overall appearance of vehicle based primarily on new technologies and solutions.
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Ng, Tat-yuen. "Corporate landscape design for Cathay Pacific headquarters at Chek Lap Kok." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1997. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25951002.
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Lerner, Stephen 1966. "Toronto's Pearson International Airport : airport commercializationprivatization." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=20156.
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Government ownership of airports is inefficient and has led to large financial deficits in Canada. Terminals I and 11 at Pearson Airport are in desperate need of redevelopment. The Pearson Airport Agreements between the Federal Government and the Pearson Development Corporation ("PDC") to redevelop and operate Terminals I and II at Pearson Airport pursuant to a long term lease would have benefitted the Government through the receipt of the proceeds from the sale of the airports while being relieved of the burden of financing airport expansion. The cancellation of the Pearson Airport Agreements based on the faulty reasoning of the Nixon Report was contrary to the public interest.The Canadian Government plans to "commercialize" Airports which involves leasing them to Airport Authorities. The federal government has reached an agreement on terms for transfer of Pearson Airport to the Greater Toronto Airport Authority ("GTAA"). Pearson airport will be one of the first airports to be transferred to local control under the Liberal governments Canadian Airport Authority model. Commercialization amounts to a transfer of Airports from one part of the public sector to another. It is plagued by many of the inefficiencies that characterize Government operated Airports.
Pearson Airport has significant market power. Pearson Airports market power can effectively be diffused by separating the airport's airside and groundside functions, and basing airside ownership on slots. Terminals I, II and III will be sold separately and will become the responsibility of several airport companies who will compete for Airlines and Passengers. Runways, taxiways and the apron would be owned and operated by a Corporation made up of investors and third party brokers.
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Lerner, Stephen. "Toronto's Pearson International Airport, airport commercialization/privatization." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1996. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ50944.pdf.
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Luk, Kapo Rose Maria. "A study of the applications of operational research in the planning and design of airports." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B21128686.
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Torabi, Elnaz. "Improving Urban Facades As An Intervention Into The Built Environment The Case Of Facade Improvement Application Along The Protocol Highway Of Ankara, A Route From Aydinlikevler District To Esenboga Airport." Master's thesis, METU, 2009. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12610958/index.pdf.
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When human constructs the physical surrounding, a psychological environment of meanings is being created, accompanying the world of shapes and masses. Interventions into built environment affect the meanings extracted from the composition of the physical setting and the response of people to design strategies reveals the importance of them.
The entrance spine of a city is important in creating an image of the city in the minds of the observers, and the protocol highway of Ankara introduces the city to other countries’
leaders and visitors. So any intervention into this highway will affect the symbolic image formed. As such, attaching claddings onto visible faç
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s interpretations from it, and the objective of this study is to question the success of this intervention with regard to solutions to improve the quality of the streetscape. To this end evaluative analyses are studied in the second chapter and the third chapter introduces a matrix of design principles. According to these evaluations, most design concerns are being underestimated, resulting in the monotony of the streetscape but the streetscape appears to be visually more ordered compared to the past.
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Denicke, Lars. "Global/Airport." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät III, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/17320.
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Ausgehend von der These, Luftverkehr finde am Boden statt, entwickelt die am Institut für Kulturwissenschaft verteidigte Dissertation eine spezifische Geopolitik des Luftverkehrs. Der Luftverkehr wird dabei über seine Operationen am Boden und an Flughäfen untersucht. Der genaue Blick auf die technischen Details bei der Implementierung dieser Anlagen in machthistorisch entscheidenden Momenten des 20. Jahrhunderts ermöglicht eine Revision geopolitischen Denkens und eröffnet einen innovativen Zugang für eine Genealogie der Globalisierung. Die Dissertation analysiert die Bewegungen in der Luft auf ihre stets lokalen und immanent territorialen Dimensionen – und widerlegt so den vermeintlichen und häufig wiederholten Anspruch an den Luftverkehr, er sei das globale, raumvernichtende Verkehrssystem par excellence (Carl Schmitt, Paul Virilio, Martin Heidegger). Die Dissertation ist auch ein Beitrag zur Genealogie von Medientheorie, insofern sie unter Rückgriff auf Harold A. Innis die Übertragung nicht von Zeichen, sondern von Personen und Gütern zum Gegenstand hat. Historisch geht sie von der Kriegslogistik der USA im Zweiten Weltkrieg aus. Sie bezieht heterogene Quellen ein: politische Programme und Debatten, internationale Beziehungen; philosophische, juridische, ökonomische und urbanistische Diskurse; ingenieurstechnische Entwicklungen und militärische Doktrinen. Sie nimmt den Leser mit auf eine Reise über alle Meere und Kontinente mit Fokus auf Saudi-Arabien, Zentral- und Südafrika, Brasilien und den Nahen Osten, untersucht Ereignisse von den 1930er bis 1970er Jahren und endet mit einem Epilog zu den Anschlägen vom 9. September 2011.This dissertation develops a specific geopolitics of aviation, taking an original perspective as it starts with the assumption that air travel happens on the ground. The focus is on a thorough examination of the technical details for implementing the facilities of airports at moments decisive for the distribution of power in the 20th century. Geopolitical discourses are revised to enable an original understanding for the genealogy of globalisation. The dissertation analyses movements in the air with view on their immanent local and territorial dimensions. It breaks with the overcome understanding of aviation as a traffic system that is global and that destroys space as no other (Carl Schmitt, Paul Virilio, Martin Heidegger). The dissertation was disputed at the Institute for Cultural Studies. It is also a contribution to the genealogy of media theory, following in the footsteps of Harold A. Innis, as it focuses on the neglected transmission of goods and people instead of signs and codes. Starting point is the US military logistics in World War II. The heterogeneous material under review includes political programmes and debates; international relations; philosophical, juridical and economic discourses; urbanism, engineering and military doctrines. It takes the reader on a journey around the world, with focus on Saudi-Arabia, Central and Southern Africa, Brazil and the Near East, taking into account events from the 1930s to 1970s, and concluding with an epilogue on the events of 9/11.
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Finsterle, Jan. "Design kabiny speciálního zásahového vozidla." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta strojního inženýrství, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-228565.
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The operational vehicle cabin design on the basis of T815-7 Tatra chassis shows possible way how the modern special category vehicle could look like. The design proposal corresponds with current factory production and at the same time brings new individual and unique look. The airport fire fighting special was worked up to be the most universal. The vehicle should fulfil the whole spectrum of the requirements which will be put on it. This diploma thesis solves the design as a complex. Therefore, the whole body was designed to show all the constraints and sequences.
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林佳美 and Kai-mei Frances Lam. "Metropolitan park at Kai Tak: a feeling of 'urban excitement' within a 'urban resort'." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31980727.
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Sakti, Rossi Danny. "Service Science Perspective On Customer Satisfaction For Improving Airport Services : Case Study : Adisutjipto Airport and Goteborg Airport." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Fakulteten för ekonomi, kommunikation och IT, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-7267.
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Tollén, Erik, and Olof Frånlund. "Dynamic capabilities in airport management : A study of Jönköping Airport." Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, Företagsekonomi, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-14408.
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Background: The deregulation of the airline and airport sectors has introduced airport managers to free market competition. Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to identify dynamic capabilities in a regional airport, examine which of the predominant views they correlate to and whether dynamic capabilities concern different levels of strategy. Method: This study uses a qualitative method. Data are collected through a documentary review and interview. The documentary review concerns the features of and trends in the airport sector. The interviews were conducted with three managers of Jönköping Airport, experienced at managing regional airports in Sweden and Europe. Conclusion: The study identified several dynamic capabilities correlating in various degrees to the different predominant views. Some of dynamic capabilities found were of the kind that might be expected at most firms, such as strategic decision-making and product development. Others were more specific for the sector, such as the ability to build a highly adaptable work force. However, none were irrelevant across businesses. This is thought to be a result of the focus on higher management. The study also found that different dynamic capabilities concern different levels of strategy. Strategic decision-making concern corporate-level strategy, while product development is concerned with business-level strategizing. We suggest this is one way of approaching the proposition made by Winter (2003) that there are different levels of dynamic capabilities ad infinitum.
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Straker, Ian. "Airport car parking strategy : lessons from the non-airport sector." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2006. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/2296.
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Despite September 11th 2001, many international airports are operating close to capacity, a problem that is likely to become more acute given the projected long-term growth in air traffic. This growth is likely to have major implications on runway, terminal and surface access capacity, infrastructure which is already experiencing constraints. The area of surface access is as much, if not more an issue in terms of employees accessing the airport as it is for passengers. Typically, one third of access traffic can be attributed to employees. Employees represent a particular problem for airports in terms of surface access due to the frequent, peak hour nature of trips made and their higher usage rates of the car compared to passengers. A range of initiatives exist to encourage the use of modes other than the private car by employees but overall these measures tend to be ‘soft' in nature and one generally has to look to the non-airport sector to see examples of more innovative ‘harder' initiatives such as financial incentive and disincentive car parking measures direct to employees. This thesis utilises a series of carefully selected interviews and focus groups at Heathrow Airport and three best practice non-airport organisations, underpinned by a process grounded in the concept and methodology of best practice benchmarking, to suggest areas where BAA, and potentially airport authorities around the world, could learn from other organisations in the area of employee surface access and specifically car parking . It is concluded that there are four key areas airports should focus on to explore the issues surrounding the implementation of a car parking charge or car parking cash out direct to employees, namely: the use of a package approach; a requirement for top management support; gaining acceptance from employees, and; the issues surrounding the process of implementation. The thesis contributes to knowledge in a number of areas, predominantly the use of benchmarking in the area of car parking and the airport sector, an industry which has thus far not adopted the technique to any great extent.
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Humphreys, Ian Michael. "Regional airport development : a case study of Cardiff-Wales airport." Thesis, Cardiff University, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.281958.
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Bein, Fahlander Linus, and Melker Mossberg. "Simulating People Flow at an Airport : Case study: Arlanda Airport." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-279289.
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Companies that manage large numbers of people in public spaces, such as airports, would benefit from having the ability to accurately predict people-flow in their facilities. However, creating high-performance crowd-simulations in a context with continually changing time-tables and gate locations is a complex problem. In this thesis we propose a simulation system that handles a large number of simulated agents whose behavior is based on scheduled flight data. The system allows for the visualization of people flows and congestion, as well as the export of statistics to benchmark against a real machine operated counting system. Our solution combines modern game development technologies for controlling ambient characters and visualizing the environment, with traditional agent-based modeling methods. The simulation spawns human-like agents in the environment based on real (live) flight schedules and normally distributed behaviors. The system was applied at Arlanda Airport, the largest airport in Sweden, which is owned and operated by Swedavia AB. Swedavia has provided us with knowledge about their processes as well as given access to data sources with live information about flight departures from the airport. The result indicates that modern game engines, such as Unreal Engine, have the potential of being a convenient development environment for scalable crowd simulation systems. The prototype developed for this project is able to simulate all departing travelers at Arlanda Terminal 5 during a given day. The data set used for this project is based on historic flights from April to May 2019. With many optimizations left outside of scope for this project, the system has a capacity of speeding up the simulation run-time by a maximum factor of 20. The historical flight data used for evaluating the model lacks information which causes the prototype to consistently over estimate the number of agents to simulate. Yet, the prototype has an average accuracy of 79.4% when it comes to predicting the flow of people passing through security at Terminal 5.The conclusion from this project is that, it is possible to develop simulation tools using modern game development technologies that are useful for stakeholders managing travelers at airports. With that said, several optimizations have been identified that would potentially improve the prediction accuracy, the stability, and the usability of the software. These optimizations should be considered before deploying and relying upon this kind of system in an airport for real.Företag som ansvarar för offentliga miljöer kan dra nytta av att förutspå flöden av människor. Dessvärre är det inte trivialt att skapa mjukvara som med hög noggranhet simulerar stora folkmassor. I detta projekt utvecklade och utvärderade vi en lösning på problemet att simulera ett stort antal människor, vars beteende baseras på dynamisk data. Lösningen visualiserar flödet av personer i en virtuellmiljö, samt sparar statistik för att kunna jämföras mot verkliga observationer. Vår lösning kombinerar spelutvecklingsverktyg med agentbaserade simulationsstrategier för att visualisera personmodeller som rör sig genom miljön. Personmodellerna generas i simulationen baserat på dynamisk data från realtidssystem. Lösningen tillämpades på Arlanda flygplats, vilket är den största flygplatsen i Sverige, som ägs av Swedavia AB. Swedavia har som samarbetspartner försett oss med information om deras processer samt tillgång till deras realtidssystem som ger information om avgångar från flygplatsen. Resultatet av projektet är en lösning som visar stor potential för användandet av spelmotorer som utvecklingsmiljö för denna typ av simuleringar. Den utvecklade prototypen är byggd i spelmotorn Unreal Engine och kan simulera alla utresande resenärer som rör sig genom Terminal 5 på Arlanda under en given dag. Underlaget som används för att utvärdera prototypen var historisk data från april till maj 2019. Lösningen har kapacitet att simulera upp till 20 gånger snabbare än verkligheten. Den historiska flygdatan som användes för utvärderingen hade vissa brister, vilket påverkade resulatet på ett sätt som realtidsystem inte hade gjort. Dettabidrog till att lösningen konsekvent överestimerade antalet resande i mätningarna. Trots detta lyckades prototypen uppnå en genomsnittlig träffsäkerhet på 79.4% för tidpunkten då resenärerna anländande till säkerhetskontrollen på Terminal 5. Slutsatsen av detta projekt är att det är möjligt att utveckla simuleringsverktyg med hjälp av spelmotorer som är värdefulla vid hantering av stora flöden av människor. Dock har prototypen som utvecklades under projektet inte tillräcklig träffsäkerhet eller tillförlitlighet för att användas som beslutsunderlag utan vidareutveckling.
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Peterson, Mervin K. "Airport ministry manual." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1992. http://www.tren.com.
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Norström, Natalie, and Martin Oskarsson. "Off Airport Bagdrop." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Kommunikations- och transportsystem, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-158164.
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Over the past nine years, the number of travelers traveling through Swedavias airports has increased significantly. The increase has placed a high demand on Stockholm Arlanda Airports infrastructural capacity. In order to avoid major expenses on the development of the terminal buildings Swedavia has developed a project called Off Airport Bagdrop, which gives the travelers the opportunity to leave their luggage at a location outside the airport. This way the number of passengers and luggage in the departure hall at Terminal 5 can be reduced. The thesis examines how the service can be developed, what is needed for it to work as well as which problems must be solved. A process map and a timeline have been created to visualize the luggage handling process and its lead times. With data gathered through interviews and observations, three solutions have been identified. The best solution, with Swedavias perspective in mind, has then been selected. The solutions identified in the report are as follows: A permanent Off Airport Bagdrop at Stockholm Central station where travelers in the vicinity of central Stockholm have the possibility to check in their luggage and get it transferred to the airport to then be able to tour the city or run errands. The long-term parking Alfa and Beta at Arlanda where the travelers who arrive with their cars have the possibility to check in their luggage at the parking lot. This way they can begin their journey more comfortably A Pop Up-service targeting group bookings, events and sport holiday travelers by providing temporary Drop Off Points at selected locations. We conclude that the latter alternative, the Pop Up-service, solves the capacity problem in the best way. This alternative is also the easiest to implement and captures the large number of passengers and luggage that create the capacity problem at Arlanda.
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Mesgarpour, Mohammad. "Airport runway optimization." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2012. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/366012/.
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This thesis considers the scheduling of aircraft landing and take-off problems on a single runway where aircraft must respect various operational constraints. The aim is to introduce generic models and solution approaches that can be implemented in practice. Existing solution methods and techniques of airport runway optimization have been reviewed. Several solution methods such as mixed integer programming, dynamic programming, iterated descent local search and simulated annealing are proposed for the scheduling of aircraft landings in the static and dynamic environment. A multi-objective formulation is used for taking into account runway throughput, earliness and lateness, and the cost of fuel arising from aircraft manoeuvres and additional flight time incurred to achieve the landing schedule. Moreover, computational results are presented using real data from Heathrow airport as well as randomly generated problem instances which are generated based on characteristics of the real data. Later, dynamic programming, descent local search and beam search algorithms are proposed for the scheduling of aircraft take-offs in the departure holding area. Scheduling aircraft take-off is formulated as a hierarchical multi-objective problem which includes maximizing departure runway throughput and minimizing total waiting time in the holding area. Performance of the algorithms have been evaluated for three common layouts of holding area. Computational results are presented on randomly generated test data.
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Widener, Scott D. "Measuring Airport Efficiency with Fixed Asset Utilization to Minimize Airport Delays." Scholarly Repository, 2010. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/485.
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Deregulation of the airlines in the United States spawned a free-for-all system which led to a variety of agents within the aviation system all seeking to optimize their own piece of the aviation system, and the net result was that the aviation system itself was not optimized in aggregate, frequently resulting in delays. Research on the efficiency of the system has likewise focused on the individual agents, primarily focusing on the municipalities in an economic context, and largely ignoring the consumer. This paper develops the case for a systemic efficiency measurement which incorporates the interests of the airlines and the consumers with those of the airport operating municipalities in three different Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) models: traditional Charnes-Cooper-Rhodes and Banker-Charnes-Cooper models, and a Directional Output Distance Function model, devised and interpreted using quality management principles. These models were combined to allow the resulting efficiencies of the operating configurations of the given airport to predict the efficiency of the associated airport. Based upon regression models, these efficiency measurements can be used as a diagnostic for improving the efficiency of the entire United States airspace, on a systemic basis, at the individual airport configuration level. An example analysis using this diagnostic is derived in the course of the development and description of the diagnostic and two additional case studies are presented.
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Evans, Antony David 1977. "Responses to airport delays : a system study of Newark International Airport." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/28254.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, Technology and Policy Program, 2002.Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-121).
Airport delays are a significant problem in the United States air transportation system. Between 1997 and 2000 the number of flights delayed increased by between 20 and 25% per year, despite only a 3 to 5% increase in enplanements per year. Newark International Airport (EWR), one of New York City's primary airports, is one of the airports in the United States most impacted by delays. Newark had the highest percentage of operations delayed in 1999, and was second only to LaGuardia Airport in 2000. Nearly 85% of delays at Newark are caused by adverse weather impacting the airport. Because of limited capacity and a very full schedule operated at the airport, when adverse weather impacts the airport departure operations are severely delayed. Despite this, unlike the national average, delays at Newark have not increased significantly since 1998. This indicates that the airlines, air traffic control (ATC), and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey have successfully adapted. On June 29, 2000, a research team from MIT visited Newark Airport to identify the key problems and assess the effectiveness of any adaptations made. Results of this study indicate that airspace capacity limitations downstream of the airport become a primary flow constraint at the airport, and that when these constraints occur they are the source of most surface delays. Responses to the delays at Newark have been both tactical and strategic. Key tactical ATC responses examined include the application of restrictions; re-routing with the help of the National Playbook; the use of decision-aiding tools; improved inter-facility communication; and utilization of runway 11-29. Key strategic ATC responses examined include the formation of the Air Traffic Control System Command Center, and the New York airspace redesign. A number of tactical airline responses to delays were also examined, including cancellation of low priority flights and the transfer of the passengers to ground transportation; pre-sequencing of departures; and improved access to information. Key strategic responses examined include changes to the schedule operated at the airport, and particularly flattening out of the banks operated; a new fleet, which requires less maintenance and has greater dispatch reliability; and improved relations with the FAA and Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. After examination of the problems at the 10 most delayed airports in the United States, the applicability of the key responses identified at Newark to these airports was also examined in detail. Those airports for which the most responses were identified to be applicable were Atlanta, San Francisco, Philadelphia and Dallas/Fort Worth. Those responses identified to be most applicable to other airports were the further extension of the National Playbook to other regions, the use of decision aiding tools, airspace redesign, pre-sequencing of departures, and a decrease in the number of operations at the airport. A policy analysis was completed for each of these responses.
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Caves, Robert Edward. "Airport planning in a liberal setting : methodologies for appropriate airport provision." Thesis, Loughborough University, 1993. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/28275.
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The thesis uses a comprehensive case study of the UK airport planning process to generate hypotheses to be tested. The hypotheses are that the use of more formal planning disciplines to the expansion of the London area airports would have allowed a more appropriate solution than those apparently preferred by the government; further, that this change in the planning process would only be beneficial if accompanied by changes in the framework for airport planning. It is seen to be necessary that the ground rules are known and that the interactions between all affected groups and the decision processes are transparent if the final result is to bear a strong resemblance to the project as planned. A possible solution is developed in the case study by using elements of this alternative methodology, resulting in a proposal for an extra short runway at Heathrow.
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D'Amico, Alessandro F. "Airport development, plans and processes, a case study of Dorval International Airport." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ56118.pdf.
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Evans, Michael J., and Richard W. Stoffle. "Environmental Assessment for Proposed On-Airport Access Road: Double Eagle II Airport." Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, University of Arizona, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/296656.
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This environmental assessment document has been prepared pursuant to the requirements of
Section 102 (2)(c) of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 (PL 91 -190, 42
USC 4321 et. seq.), Tide V of the Airport and Airway Improvement Act of 1982 (PL 97 -248,
as amended by the Airport Safety and Capacity Act of 1987), and other laws as applicable.
The format and subject matter included in this report conform to the requirements and
standards set forth by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as contained principally in
Order 5050.4A, Airport Environmental Handbook, but also addresses appropriate items in FAA
Order 1050.1 D, Policies and Procedures for Considering Environmental Impacts.
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Wilke, Sabine. "Modelling airport surface safety : a framework for a holistic airport safety management." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/24838.
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Airports are complex systems involving the continuous interaction of human operators with the physical infrastructure, technology and procedures to ensure the safe and efficient conduct of flights. From an operational perspective, airport surface operations (i.e. runway and taxiway operations) require the interaction of five main stakeholders (i.e. crew or pilots, air traffic control, airport operator, ground handling and regulator) both to facilitate the ground movement of aircraft and vehicles, and to maintain the surface in a working condition. The complexity of these operations makes the runway and taxiway system vulnerable and presents a risk of failure with the consequent potential for the occurrence of accidents. Therefore, the development and implementation of an effective Safety Management System (SMS) are required to ensure the highest level of safety for surface operations. A SMS is a systematic approach to managing safety based on the four cornerstones of safety policy and objectives, risk management, assurance, and safety promotion. Although the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) provides the global legislative framework for SMS, the relevant regulations are still to be established at the national level with the consequence that practical guidance on the development and implementation of SMS is rare, and reliable tools to support SMS are lacking. The consequence of this is that the current approach to surface safety management is piecemeal and not integrated. Typically, a single accident and incident type is investigated from the perspective of an individual stakeholder with the consequence that resulting proposals for safety mitigation measures are biased and limited in terms of their impact. In addition, the industry is characterised by non-standardised data collection and investigation practices, insufficient or missing definitions, differing reporting levels, and a lack of a coherent and standardised structure for efficient coding and analysis of safety data. Since these shortcomings are a major barrier to the required holistic and integrated approach to safety management, this thesis addresses the four cornerstones of SMS and recommends major enhancements. In particular, a framework for a holistic airport surface safety management is proposed. The framework comprises the static airport architecture, a process model of surface operations, the determination of causal factors underlying failure modes of these operations, a macroscopic scenario tool and a functional relationship model. Safety data and other data sources feed the framework and a dedicated data pre-processing strategy ensures its validity. Unlike current airport surface safety management practices, the proposed framework assesses the safety of the operations of all relevant actors. Firstly, the airport architecture is modelled and the physical and functional variability of airports defined. Secondly, a process model of surface operations is developed, which captures the tasks of the stakeholders and their interactions with physical airport surface infrastructure. This model serves as a baseline model and guides the further development of the airport SMS. To manage the safety of surface operations, the causes of accidents and incidents must be identified and their impacts understood. To do so, a reference data set combining twelve databases from airlines, airport operators, Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs), ground handling companies and regulators is collected. Prior to its analysis, the data is assessed for its quality, and in particular, for its internal validity (i.e. precision), external validity (i.e. accuracy) and in terms of reporting levels. A novel external data validation framework is developed and each database is rated with a data quality index (DQI). In addition, recommendations for reporting systems and safety policies are given. Subsequently, the data is analysed for causal factors across stakeholders and the contribution of the individual actors are highlighted. For example, the analysis shows that the various stakeholders capture different occurrence types and underlying causal factors, often including information that is of potential use for another party. The analysis is complemented by interviews, observations and statistical analysis, and the results are summarised in a new taxonomy. This taxonomy is applicable to all relevant stakeholders and is recommended for operational safety risk management. After the airport surface operations have been modelled and the drivers to safety identified, the results are combined, resulting in a macroscopic scenario tool which supports the management of change (i.e. safety assurance), training and education, and safety communication (i.e. safety promotion) functions of the SMS. Finally, a structured framework to assess the functional relationship between airport surface accidents / incidents and their underlying causal factors is proposed and the system is quantified in terms of safety. Compared to the state-of-the-art safety assessments that are biased and limited in terms of their impact, the holistic approach to surface safety allows modelling the safety impact of each system component, their interactions and the entire airport surface system architecture. The framework for a holistic airport surface safety management developed in this thesis delivers a SMS standard for airports. The standard exceeds international requirements by standardizing the two SMS core functions (safety risk management and safety assurance) and integrating safety-relevant information across all relevant stakeholders. This allows a more effective use of safety information and provides an improved overview on, and prediction of, safety risks and ultimately improves the safety level of airports and their stakeholders. Furthermore, the methodology employed in this thesis is flexible and could be applied to all aspects of aviation SMS and system analysis.
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Biggs, Andrew John Grainge. "The impact of airport noise : a case study of Vancouver International Airport." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28709.
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The principal concern of this paper is the valuation of the impact of aircraft noise associated with Vancouver International Airport on residents living close to the flight paths.
In surveying previous research relevant to the valuation of the impact of airport noise, the paper selects a property value approach in which the residential property market is used as a surrogate for airport noise nuisance (on the premise that noisier areas will have lower house prices than quieter areas, ceteris paribus). The selected approach involves undertaking hedonic price modelling in which multiple regression is used to estimate property value, and from which the value of one attribute, exposure to airport noise, may be obtained implicitly. Noise is measured by the Noise Exposure Forecast (NEF) technique, a widely used procedure for measuring airport noise.
Several theoretical concerns with the approach are addressed before reviewing the results of previous airport noise studies which use hedonic price models. The results of these models may be reported in terms of noise-property value relationships, measured by a noise depreciation sensitivity index (NDSI). If the functional form of noise
is linear against the natural logarithm of property value, the NDSI will equal the value of the noise coefficient and will be constant regardless of the absolute price of the property. The NDSI figures for previous studies range from about 0.40 to 1.10 percent per decibel for 1967 to 1976 data, with a simple average of about 0.61 percent.
Of the two general model types reported, the one involving individual property sales data is considered superior to that using only census information. The model designed for this study uses individual price data for 1987 single-detached property sales in the Township of Richmond (where the majority of noise-affected properties are situated). Data for physical, area, public sector, accessibility and other characteristics are obtained from various sources to enable the modelling of some 1539 sales. Two data sets are tested with 44 variables initially collected for each: one set involving only those properties inside the NEF 25 noise zone (assumed to be affected by airport noise), the other involving all properties. For each data set alternative functional forms are tested, as are several approaches for explaining noise (continuous or dummy variables, and different assumed thresholds). Of the eleven models reported, the preferred model includes only those single-detached properties exposed to NEF 25 or higher where the natural log of sales price is regressed against sixteen independent variables including a continuous form of the
noise variable (NEF level) The model has an adjusted R2 value of .634, and a noise coefficient of -.006484 - implying a one unit increase in noise results in more than half of a percent decrease in property price (NDSI equals 0.65). The 95 percent confidence interval for this variable is -.0097 to -.0033. Preliminary analysis of the model type using census data is also reported.
Certain matters of interpretation are discussed before attempting a preliminary application in the setting of Vancouver International Airport in which the noise impact of a third runway is indicated.
What distinguishes the modelling for Vancouver International Airport from the previous studies is the high quality of individual data, the large sample size, the testing of several forms for the noise variable(s) and the exploration of alternative noise thresholds. Notwithstanding this, the study concludes by outlining several areas for further research.Business, Sauder School of
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Dzeko, Jasmin. "Schemaläggning av Norrköping Airport." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för teknik och naturvetenskap, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-86014.
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För att Securitas AB skall kunna behålla sin position i Norrköping Flygplats är det viktigt att de effektiviserar sin bemanning och scheman. Detta krävs för att kunna uppnå kostnadsreduceringar som skall i sin tur ge dem konkurrensfördelar för att behålla sin position vid årliga upphandlingar som sker mellan kommun och flygplats. För att effektivisera sin bemanning och scheman skall teoretiska delar användas för att styra grupper och verksamheten bättre, teoretiska delarna är i form av schemaläggningsprinciper. Vid en effektivisering av verksamheten skall en optimeringsmodell användas med flera funktioner som möjliggör en heltäckande optimeringslösning för att generera den mest kostnadseffektivaste bemanningen för schemaläggningen. Ett tekniskt system som ett informationssystem skall även strukturera Securitas arbete effektivare med en bättre bokföring över de anställda samt underlätta tillämpningen av ett standardiserat arbetssätt. Vikten av ett standardiserat arbetssätt behandlas mycket inom LEAN-filosofin och anses viktig i detta fall för att få de teoretiska delarna och informationssystemet att fungera ihop. En schemaläggningsprincip som rekommenderas att Securitas använder är perceptuell kontroll teori eftersom den har visat sig framgångsrik av företag som tillämpat den. Lösningen till Securitas problem är en kombination av teori och kvantitativa metoder som det går att räkna på. Optimeringsmodellen och informationssystemet skall tillsammans med schemaläggningsprinciperna skapa bättre förutsättningar för Securitas att sätta upp ett nytt optimalt schema som skall reducera kostnaderna med 10 % och öka effektiviteten för Securitas verksamhet i flygplatsen. Detta skall leda till en högre lönsamhet och att Securitas behåller sin position i Norrköping Flygplats vid årliga upphandlingar.For Securitas AB case to maintain their position in Norrkoping Airport is it important to effectives their staffing and schedules. This is required to achieve cost reductions which will in turn give them the competitive edge to maintain their position at the annual contracts concluded between the municipality and the airport. To effectives their staffing and schedules are theoretical parts going to be used to control their groups and business better. The theoretical parts are in the form of scheduling principles. At the streamlining of operations is an optimization model going to be used that has several features that enable a comprehensive optimization solution to embarrass the most cost-effective staffing for the schedule planning. A technical system as an information system will also be used to structure Securitas work more efficiently with a better accounting of the employees and to facilitate the implementation of a standardized approach. The importance of standardized work is treated much in the LEAN philosophy and is considered important in this case to obtain the theoretical aspects and the information system to work together smoothly. A scheduling policy that is recommended that Securitas uses is the Perceptual Control Theory as it has proven to be successful by companies that applied it. The solution to Securitas Problem is a combination of theory and quantitative methods that can be used to count on. Optimization model and information system will together with the scheduling principles create better conditions for Securitas to set up a new optimal schedule to reduce costs by 10 % and increase the efficiency for Securitas operations in the airport. These actions are going to lead to higher profitability and will result that Securitas wins the annual procurements in Norrkoping Airport.
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Dzeko, Jasmin. "Scheduling of Norrköping Airport." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Kommunikations- och transportsystem, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-91328.
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För att Securitas AB skall kunna behålla sin position i Norrköping Flygplats är det viktigt att de effektiviserar sin bemanning och scheman. Detta krävs för att kunna uppnå kostnadsreduceringar som skall i sin tur ge dem konkurrensfördelar för att behålla sin position vid årliga upphandlingar som sker mellan kommun och flygplats. För att effektivisera sin bemanning och scheman skall teoretiska delar användas för att styra grupper och verksamheten bättre, teoretiska delarna är i form av schemaläggningsprinciper. Vid en effektivisering av verksamheten skall en optimeringsmodell användas med flera funktioner som möjliggör en heltäckande optimeringslösning för att generera den mest kostnadseffektivaste bemanningen för schemaläggningen. Ett tekniskt system som ett informationssystem skall även strukturera Securitas arbete effektivare med en bättre bokföring över de anställda samt underlätta tillämpningen av ett standardiserat arbetssätt. Vikten av ett standardiserat arbetssätt behandlas mycket inom LEAN-filosofin och anses viktig i detta fall för att få de teoretiska delarna och informationssystemet att fungera ihop. En schemaläggningsprincip som rekommenderas att Securitas använder är perceptuell kontroll teori eftersom den har visat sig framgångsrik av företag som tillämpat den. Lösningen till Securitas problem är en kombination av teori och kvantitativa metoder som det går att räkna på. Optimeringsmodellen och informationssystemet skall tillsammans med schemaläggningsprinciperna skapa bättre förutsättningar för Securitas att sätta upp ett nytt optimalt schema som skall reducera kostnaderna med 10 % och öka effektiviteten för Securitas verksamhet i flygplatsen. Detta skall leda till en högre lönsamhet och att Securitas behåller sin position i Norrköping Flygplats vid årliga upphandlingar.For Securitas AB case to maintain their position in Norrkoping Airport is it important to effectives their staffing and schedules. This is required to achieve cost reductions which will in turn give them the competitive edge to maintain their position at the annual contracts concluded between the municipality and the airport. To effectives their staffing and schedules are theoretical parts going to be used to control their groups and business better. The theoretical parts are in the form of scheduling principles. At the streamlining of operations is an optimization model going to be used that has several features that enable a comprehensive optimization solution to embarrass the most costeffective staffing for the schedule planning. A technical system as an information system will also be used to structure Securitas work more efficiently with a better accounting of the employees and to facilitate the implementation of a standardized approach. The importance of standardized work is treated much in the LEAN philosophy and is considered important in this case to obtain the theoretical aspects and the information system to work together smoothly. A scheduling policy that is recommended that Securitas uses is the Perceptual Control Theory as it has proven to be successful by companies that applied it. The solution to Securitas Problem is a combination of theory and quantitative methods that can be used to count on. Optimization model and information system will together with the scheduling principles create better conditions for Securitas to set up a new optimal schedule to reduce costs by 10 % and increase the efficiency for Securitas operations in the airport. These actions are going to lead to higher profitability and will result that Securitas wins the annual procurements in Norrkoping Airport.
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Vogel, Hans-Arthur. "Airport privatisation and performance." Thesis, University of Westminster, 2004. https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/93499/airport-privatisation-and-performance.
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This study assesses the financial performance of a representative sample of 35 European commercial airports for the period 1990 to 1999 inclusive, comparing those subject to partial or full privatisation with those in public ownership. It is hypothesized that privatised airports operate more efficiently than others and that they are an attractive investment as compared to alternative capital projects. Partial factor productivity (PFP), total factor productivity (TFP) indicators and financial ratio analysis (FRA) outcomes are compared, in order to investigate differences which may be attributable to the degree of privatisation. The main results of PFP and FRA indicators are tested by an independent and a paired-samples t-test for differences between airports in public, mixed public-private and fully private ownership. Changes in performance after a change in ownership structure are reviewed. The analysis of sample data reveals economically meaningful and statistically significant differences between publicly owned and privatised airports. The latter group is not a homogeneous one but shows decisive structural differences between partially and fully privatised companies. The major differences lie in operating efficiency, asset utilization and capital structure, which vary substantially with the respective ownership status. Whereas privatised airports are more cost efficient, publicly owned airports generate comparatively higher ratios of unit revenues and work load units to total assets. Their asset turnover is higher but the capital expenditure to total revenue ratio is lower. The increased operating efficiency of partially and fully privatised airports does not, however, translate into higher returns on equity in general. Only partially privatised sample airports may be considered an attractive investment. Regarding capital structure and financing of productive assets, publicly owned airports assume more debt relatively to their respective shareholders' funds, which results in considerably higher gearing and financial leverage, compensating for the comparatively low return rate on assets. Based on the findings of this research, key success factors and value drivers of the airports' business model are identified and consequences for airport management are deduced. Major contributions to the knowledge on the subject result from an application of financial ratio analysis to the sector, including the analysis of capital structures, the usage of performance indicators and financial ratios before and after privatisation and from conducting a DEA analysis strictly based on financial variables.
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Rosa, Miriam Lobato da. "Airport ground movement scheduling." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/17052.
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Mestrado em Matemática e AplicaçõesO tráfego aéreo no mundo está em crescimento e para a maioria dos aeroportos não e uma opção expandir os terminais ou as pistas, fazendo com que estes tentem maximizar a eficiência operacional. Muitos aeroportos estão a operar perto da sua capacidade m áxima. Horas de ponta implicam engarrafamentos e causam simultâneos atrasos ao longo de toda a cadeia de operações com consequências para passageiros, companhias aéreas e aeroportos. Por estes motivos há uma necessidade de otimização dos movimentos no solo que ocorrem nos aeroportos. Existem três grandes problemas no que diz respeito as operações dos aeroportos: o sequenciamento das partidas e chegadas; a gestão das operações que precedem a "luz verde" para que o avião possa sair do stand; e os movimentos no solo entre o stand e a pista (e o oposto). O âmbito deste trabalho enquadra-se nos movimentos no solo que interagem com os dois outros problemas de sequenciamento mencionados e fornece decisões em tempo real. O problema dos movimentos terrestres consiste em estabelecer o roteamento dos aviões desde o stand até a pista para levantarem voo, ou no caminho inverso, e sequenciar os seus movimentos. A nossa abordagem consiste numa otimização rápida que considera um conjunto de aviões a moverem-se de, e para, a pista, e uma rede condicionada pela planta do aeroporto. Considera, ainda, restrições tais como: de rota; separações entre aviões devido ao jet blast; velocidade de cada avião; de tempo para chegadas e partidas, num ambiente em constante mudança. O objetivo e minimizar o consumo de combustível enquanto os aviões estão no solo (da perspetiva das companhias aéreas) e minimizar o tempo despendido em cada slot de janela temporal na ocupação do espaço terrestre do aeroporto, garantindo todas as regras de segurança. Também os passageiros e o ambiente beneficiam de um conjunto de movimentações em terra otimizadas. A otimização proposta fornece uma solução heuristica rápida para cada evento em tempo real respeitando todas as regras estabelecidas no Ad- vanced Surface Movement, Guidance and Control Systems (A-SMGCS) da Organização Internacional de Aviação Civil (ICAO).
Worldwide air tra c tends to increase and for many airports it's no longer an option to expand terminals and runways, so airports are trying to maximize their operational e ciency. Many airports already operate near their maximum capacity. Peak hours imply operational bottlenecks and cause chained delays across ights impacting passenger, airlines and airports. Therefore there is a need for the optimization of the ground movements at the airports. There are three major problems concerning airport operations: the departures and arrivals sequencing on the runways; the sta management operations preceding the green light for aircraft to leave the gate; and the ground movement between the gate and the runway (and reverse). The scope of this work is the ground movement problem that interacts with the other two scheduling problems mentioned and provides decisions in real-time. The ground movement problem consists of routing the planes from the gate to the runway for takeo or on reverse path, and to schedule their movements. Our approach proposes a fast optimization system that considers a set of planes moving to and from a set of runways along a given road network conditioned by the airport ground layout. It considers constraints such as the route constraints, separation between aircrafts due to jet blast, aircraft movement speeds, timing constraints for arrivals and departures in a constantly changing environment. The objective is to minimize fuel consumptions on the ground (from the airline perspective) and to minimize the time spent on the time window slot for occupying the airport ground (from the airports perspective) while granting all safety regulations at all times. Also passengers and the environment bene t from an optimized ground movement. The optimization approach proposed provides a fast heuristic solution for each real-time event generated respecting all the rules established by Advanced Surface Movement, Guidance and Control Systems (ASMGCS) of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).
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Lin, Yuqing. "An airport on display." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/64368.
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Display and function are a pair of conflicting concepts. The thesis focuses on displaying a sequence of functional spaces which are commonly not exposed to the eyes of the public, in this case, a general aviation airport. The greatest challenge over the course of the study was how to create displayable spaces without overlooking basic functional programs and deepen both concepts in the process.
The airport is designed to fulfill the dual attributes of display and function. It is an aircraft museum, displaying the behind-the-scenes system from arriving, to maintaining, to towing, to parking, and to departing. As well, it is a fully-functional airport, consisting of a sequence of functional spaces, including: runway, taxi area, maintenance hangar, towing corridor, parking spots, and auxiliary spaces.
In the context of the thesis, "display" means to expose the elements - aircraft and air travel - as an exhibit to be viewed or to be noticed by the public through spatial organization and scales of engagement.Master of Architecture
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Melldahl, Erik. "Maasaica : Designed beyond mobility." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Designhögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-111911.
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The automotive industry is conservative and doesn’t take enough responsibility in emerging markets. Thus, countries such asChina and India have experienced huge problems with pollution as they have increased their living standards and enteredthe western consumption society. In these booming economies there are still people who live their lives according to oldcustoms, in small sustainable societies. It is also they who suffer most from the ongoing urbanization. Hence the automotiveindustry should rather adapt to their cultures than let these people adjust to the consumption society.Now, imagine a third industrial revolution where sustainable energy and manufacturing set the standards for production.Africa is then in the forefront when it comes to alternative and sustainable solutions. Maasaica is a concept from BMW whichis locally built in Serengeti using 3D printing technology, degradable materials and traditional handcraft.
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Marklund, Martin. "Flygplatsers betydelse för regional utveckling: : En jämförelsestudie mellan Luleå Airport och Skellefteå Airport." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för geografi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-161113.
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In northern Sweden the distances are great, which make the air transportation a major key for the accessability since there are lack of alternative means of transportation. In 2007 the government established an investigation on how the airport system in Sweden could be updated. The investigation concluded that there should be three categories of airport: national strategic airport, regional strategic airport and other airports. This study focuses on two different airports in Northern Sweden that has two different types of ownerships, Luleå airport that owned by the state and was considered to be a national strategic airport and Skellefteå airport that is owned by the municipality and was considered to be aregional strategic airport. The study aims to examine the condition of possible differences regarding regional development in the Skellefteå region and Luleå region based on the two different types of ownerships. The scientific approach has been qualitative, 4 semi-structured interviews was performed with 2 representatives from each region. One airport representive from each region, one from the business industry in the Skellefteå region and one from the tourism industry in the Luleå region. This study examines three different themes that were discovered from the interviews. Regional development, accessability and flight tax. Based on these themes the both airports are major keys for the accessability and the regional development in the regions. The flight tax has had an impact on the both airports, but if it is directly because of the flight tax cannot be ensured. Keywords Luleå airport, Skellefteå airport, Accessability, regional development, Flight tax