Career visual searchers such as radiologists and airport security screeners strive to conduct accurate visual searches, but despite extensive training, errors still occur. A key difference between searches in radiology and airport security is the structure of the search task: Radiologists typically scan a certain number of medical images (fixed objective), and airport security screeners typical...

INTRODUCTION Airport surface safety and in particular runway and taxiway safety is acknowledged globally as one of aviation's greatest challenges. To improve this key area of aviation safety, it is necessary to identify and understand the causal and contributing factors on safety occurrences. While the contribution of human factors, operations, and procedures has been researched extensively, th...

Fall 2015 | Acoustics Today | 27 Introduction Vigorous community opposition to aircraft noise exposure is more the rule than the exception at airports worldwide, particularly when efforts are made to increase airport capacity or change operational patterns. Since the introduction of commercial jet service in the late 1950s, these disputes have often been highly contentious, to the point of inte...

Many airport runway expansion projects are restricted by space limitations imposed by development in the vicinity of the airport. This often causes planners to choose configurations for new runways that limit the use of these runways in time and/or space. Studies that model airports with new runways that are not yet operational need to develop plausible operational models for these new runways ...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the influence of an increase on passengers demand in a shared airport between military and civil personnel. The paper investigates how this increase may influence the military operations of a high strategic airport. Using as a case study the Salvador International Airport, home to the aircraft fleet responsible for maritime patrol in Brazil, an airport demand...

Airports are a prime target for terrorist organizations, drug traffickers, smugglers, and other nefarious groups. Traditional forms of security assessment are not real-time and often do not exist for each airport and port of entry. Thus, homeland security professionals must rely on measures of attractiveness of an airport as a target for attacks. We present an open source indicators approach, u...

The way passenger traffic is distributed at multiple airport systems continues to intrigue air transportation planners, urban planners, and policy-makers as researchers attempt to unravel how airlines, air travelers and airports relate to each other. While previous research efforts have typically concentrated on the air travelers' choice of airports, the current thesis addresses how the competi...

Description of LEONARDO System, a CDM integrated System LEONARDO, Linking Existing On Ground, Arrival and Departure Operations is a research project promoted by the European Commission, with the participation of companies from France (ADP, DNA and Air France), The Netherlands (NLR), Italy (Sicta) and Spain (Aena, Iberia, Indra, Ineco and Isdefe), together with Eurocontrol. The objective of Leon...

Optimizing gate scheduling at airports is an old, but also a broad problem. The main purpose of this problem is to find an assignment for the flights arriving at and departing from an airport, while satisfying a set of constraints.A closer look at the literature in this research line shows thatin almost all studies airport gate processing time has been considered as a fix parameter. In this res...

Forecasting is never able to correctly predict the future. Its main purpose therefore is to gain some understanding of the future. Hardly anyone these days will make multimillion euros plans and implement them without at least trying to simulate the future and studying some possible scenarios. Decision making is the core management activity. As airport business environments become more and more...