Terrain and obstacle detection is very important for the safety of aircraft operation. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) issued the requirements for electronic Terrain and Obstacle Data (eTOD) in 2004. The requirements request all countries to finish the survey of eTOD around large airports by 2010. Nevertheless, no traditional surveying approaches satisfy the required precis...

The Nippon Medical School New Tokyo International Airport Clinic (Airport Clinic) was opened in 1992 as Japan's first 24-hour international airport clinic. To date, it has provided medical services to a total of 117,953 patients. Of these, 85,545 (72.5%) were airport employees, 28,662 (24.3%) were passengers, and 3,746 (3.2%) were others. Of the total, non-Japanese patients accounted for 8,485 ...

Critical infrastructures are ubiquitous in the modern world and include electrical power systems, water, gas, and other utilities, as well as trains and transportation systems including airports. This work is concerned with Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems that are at the heart of distributed critical infrastructures within airports. Modern airports are highly competitiv...

The main objective of this dissertation is to analyze, through the consideration of a case-study Portela Airport the current operational and regulatory design options in systems of taxi service provision at airport passenger buildings, and propose, based on its performance levels, alternative schemes and possible interventions that can improve the existing services. On the regulatory side, the ...

Based on the corridor channel curtain wall reconstruction project at Wuhan Tianhe airport T2-T3 terminal building, structural system of point supported glass with cable structure 18 years ago was analyzed, technical difficulties panel removal and bearing were studied, measures for dismantlement reasonably proposed. During construction process reconstruction, dynamically monitored, deformation m...

In aviation, aircraft ground handling defines the servicing of an aircraft while it is on the ground and (usually ) parked at a terminal gate of an airport. Ground handling operations include many activities: passenger handling, ground transport, assistance in blocking the aircraft and delivery of required equipment, loading and unloading of the aircraft, including provision and operation of re...

The analysis of air-passengers’ choices of departure airport in multi-airport regions is a crucial component of transportation planning in many large metropolitan areas, and has been the topic of an increasing number of studies over recent years. In this paper, we advance the state of the art of modelling in this area of research by making use of a Cross-Nested Logit (CNL) structure that allows...

Airport runoff can contain high concentrations of various pollutants, in particular polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), the environmental levels of which have to be monitored. Airport runoff water samples, collected at the Gdańsk-Rębiechowo Airport from 2008 to 2009, were analysed for PAHs and PCBs by gas chromatography. The aromatic fractions were sepa...

Airport planning is shifting from the traditional pattern driven by long-term point forecasts, high standards, and established clients to that of recognizing great forecast uncertainty, many standards and changeable clients. This is a consequence of economic deregulation of aviation and the rise of lowcost airlines. Low-cost airlines are becoming significant factors in airport planning. Their r...