The operational capacity of an airport must be dimensioned under a long-term strategic view as its productivity is determined by available infrastructure. To predict the airport capacity and satisfy the domestic airport property, the operation procedure of airport is analyzed from the point of Multi-agent system. The proposed agent based architecture is a microscopic model of aircrafts' movemen...

The check-in area of airport terminal is one of the busiest sections at airports at certain periods. The passengers are subjected to queues and delays during the check-in process. These delays and queues are due to constraints in the capacity of service facilities. In this project, the airport terminal is decomposed into several check-in areas. The airport check-in scheduling problem requires b...

Air transportation has been becoming a major part of transportation infrastructure worldwide. Hence the study of the Airports Networks, the backbone of air transportation, is becoming increasingly important. In complex systems domain, airport networks are modeled as graphs (networks) comprising of airports (vertices or nodes) that are linked by flight connectivities among the airports. A comple...

Optimal operation of a country's air transport infrastructure plays a major role in the economic development of nations. Due to the increasing use of air transportation in today's world, flights' boarding times have become a concern for both airlines and airports, thus the importance of knowing beforehand how changes in flights demand parameters and physical airport layout will affect passenger...

BACKGROUND The new reality of biologic terrorism and warfare has ignited a debate about whether to reintroduce smallpox vaccination. METHODS We developed scenarios of smallpox attacks and built a stochastic model of outcomes under various control policies. We conducted a systematic literature review and estimated model parameters on the basis of European and North American outbreaks since Wor...

In this paper we present an optimisation model for airport taxi scheduling. We introduce a mixed-integer programming formulation to represent the movement of aircraft on the surface of the airport. In the optimal schedule delays due to taxi conflicts are minimised. We discuss implementation issues for solving this optimisation problem. Numerical results with real data of Amsterdam Airport Schip...

The sharing and openness of network are convenient to the airport operations and passenger information inquiry, but also result in information security issues. In the design of Hongqiao Airport West Terminal network system, information security issues have been taken as important topics, and preventive strategies which aim at the specific circumstances have been formulated by comprehensive anal...

We report a case of Plasmodium vivax malaria in a patient who had not visited an endemic area. The ways in which malaria can be transmitted in non-endemic areas are discussed. By the elimination of other possibilities, the diagnosis of airport malaria was made. Airport malaria is a rare and often initially overlooked diagnosis. Since 1969, some 89 cases of airport malaria have been reported.

This paper describes the typical steps performed in a simulation consulting project in the aviation industry. While the aviation consulting environment does require some differences in the specific approach, the general framework has been applied successfully in the more traditional areas of logistics and manufacturing. 1 SIMULATION IN AIRPORT DESIGN Airport design is, by far, the largest pract...

BACKGROUND Smoke-free legislation eliminating tobacco smoke in all indoor public places and workplaces is the international standard to protect all people from exposure to secondhand smoke. Uruguay was the first country in the Americas and the first middle-income country in the world to enact a comprehensive smoke-free national legislation in March 2006. OBJECTIVE To compare air nicotine conc...