Freight and passenger transport are two main functions of the infrastructure and transportation networks in each country. It is required to efficiently utilize the transportation infrastructures to increase transportation-related performance measures. In this study, data envelopment analysis (DEA) model is used to evaluate performance of the Iranian provinces from the freight and passenger tran...

Recently, considerable attention has been focused on the performance of various airlines and air carriers in terms of efficiency. Although it is obvious that air carriers use airports, few studies have focused on airport operational efficiency. This empirical study evaluates the operational efficiencies of 44 major U.S. airports using data envelopment analysis and some of its recent development...

Demand for air travel has increased over the years and so have airport delays and congestion. Delays have a huge impact on airline costs and influence the satisfaction of passengers, thus becoming an important topic of research in the field of air transportation. In recent literature, a Passenger Delay Calculator (PDC) was proposed to estimate passenger delays. The PDC computes passenger delays...

This paper describes the structure and implementation of the Intermodal Airport Ground Access Planning Tool (IAPT) that has been developed to provide an integrated analytical system to support airport ground access planning. The tool models the interaction between three components of the system: air passenger mode choice behavior, transportation provider competitive behavior (modeled as a gener...

This paper presents our ongoing research on an auction model a hybrid demand management approach for congested airports. It is intended to optimize the utilization of airport time slots by maximizing passenger throughput within safe capacity, decreasing congestion and delay. The two sub-models mathematically formulate conflicting optimization problems of efficiency-driven airport regulators and...

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...

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...

Be it snow, volcanic ash or strikes, crisis events impose high costs on the air transport system and society. Airlines have progressively learned to mitigate the irregular operations arising from such events through procedures such as Collaborative Decision Making (CDM) for tra c ow and airport departure management; however the passenger's door-to-door journey during di cult times often remains...

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...