Airport system is complex. Passenger dynamics within it appear to be complicate as well. Passenger behaviours outside standard processes are regarded more significant in terms of public hazard and service rate issues. In this paper, we devised an individual agent decision model to simulate stochastic passenger behaviour in airport departure terminal. Bayesian networks are implemented into the d...

The lack of a friendly and flexible operational model of landside operations motivated the creation of a new simulation model adaptable to various airport configurations for estimating the time behavior of passenger and baggage flows, the elements’ capacities and the delays in a generic airport terminal. The validation of the model has been conducted by comparison with the results of previous r...

The theory developed in this paper, which generalizes the analysis of Brueckner (2002), establishes a simple rule for the computation of airport congestion tolls, reflecting the internalization of congestion. The analysis shows that the toll paid by a carrier should equal the congestion damage from an extra flight times one minus the carrier’s airport flight share. When this flight share is lar...

This article deals with a new approach to the airport emergency plans, which are the basic documents and manuals for dealing with events with impact on safety or security. The article describes the identified parts in which the current airport emergency plans do not fulfill their role and which should therefore be considered in the creation of corrective measures. All these issues have been ide...

Baggage operations at an airport are split into several different sub problems. The problem of assigning baggage carousels to each arriving flight is part the important passenger arrival process. This article presents a mixed integer formulation for underlying decision which aims balancing customer satisfaction with operational needs. We introduce static model that fulfills real-world requireme...

The study aimed at assessment of noise levels in Alexandria airport and measurement of hearing acuity--among other health parameters of the working personnel. By performing 65 sound pressure level measurements, a questionnaire and air conduction audiometry, significant hearing defects could be revealed. Deficiencies affected hearing levels at all frequencies but especially higher frequencies in...

Abstract: This paper studies the King Fahd International Airport in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, which began its operation in 1999. The paper reviews the development of the airport and the challenges it faces in maintaining standards of service. The study also undertakes an evaluation of the quality of airport service. Empirical research is used to determine the factors that influence travelers’ evalu...

Robust face identification system in complex airport environment, which can identify certain candidates from a crowd of people in real time, is in urgent demand. S-AdaBoost is discussed in this paper as a variant of AdaBoost to handle real world environment. The Face Identification System for Airports (F1SA), based upon SAdaBoost algorithm, is implemented in an international airport. Comparison...