The assessment of aircraft noise is becoming an increasingly important task in ensuring sustainable airport development. Aircraft noise is influenced by many complex factors and traditional laboratory models are not sufficient to assess the exposure to noisy flights of specific local communities in proximity to an airport. In this paper neural network and fuzzy set methods have been integrated ...

In the process of the optimum design of aprons, solutions should be found for problems and such issues as the optimum area and dimensions of the apron, including the passenger and the cargo the number and dimensions of the gates on the basis of different types of aircraft parking configuration aircraft simulation and arrangement in different time periods of the given day at the airport. In this...

This paper introduces the concept of airport logistics, along with a proof of concept through a case study where we model and optimize de-icing services at Stockholm Arlanda airport. The optimized schedule is tested using a simulation model of the turn-around process. The results demonstrate that a schedule taking into account the overall airport performance results in less delay than the sched...

This paper discusses the results from the maintenance evaluation of Engineered Material Arresting System (EMAS) at three U.S. airports: Greenville Downtown Airport (GMU), SC, Roanoke Regional Airport (ROA), VA, and Burbank Airport (BUR), CA. EMAS is a softer ground aircraft arresting system approved by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to stop overrunning aircraft. In numerous occasions...

Identification is very important nowadays; whether there is need to identify persons, animals or objects, RFIDs provide a very good solution to the problem of identification and authentication. No one can deny the importance of authentication, it is done at the airport, at the railway station, in the library etc, but usually it’s done manually. The proposed system is a low cost automatic identi...

There is currently no data-driven approach widely used by air traffic managers and controllers to predict the capacity at airports. Instead controllers rely on rules-of-thumb to define the airport acceptance rate (AAR). As the approach is inherently subjective, it can lead to poor definition of Traffic Management Initiatives (TMIs) which rely on accurate airport capacity estimates and can lead ...

This study aims to measure passengers’ perception of the importance of the four factors of check-in facility, amenities, terminal facilities, and airport accessibility facility with regard to their visit to the airport and their perceived level of performance of the particular facility and the resulting gap. Using purposive sampling method, data was collected from the departing passengers of th...