An increased sensitivity of airport detectors, a growing number of isotopic tests, and globalization of the society have raised a number of false positive radioactive alarms at airports and public places. This paper presents two new cases of patients who triggered airport security alarms after receiving 740MBq of (131)I for non-toxic goitre and attempts to compare surprisingly limited literatur...

The notion of co-locating alliance carriers to their designated terminals in airports has gained significant interest in recent years. While benefits on the part of airlines are made clear by existing literature on alliance-hubbing, the tangible benefits to airport operators are less clear due to a lack of studies in the literature. This paper considers existing cases of London Heathrow, Paris ...

Disease spreading through human travel networks has been a topic of great interest in recent years, as witnessed during outbreaks of influenza A (H1N1) or SARS pandemics. One way to stop spreading over the airline network are travel restrictions for major airports or network hubs based on the total number of passengers of an airport. Here, we test alternative strategies using edge removal, canc...

This research work was carried out in response to the need as a result of increase Nigeria population and demand for air transport facilities, this using data Federal Airport Authority (FAAN) is federal government agency, set up manage every commercial airport country, well making sure that, it provides services both airlines passengers airports. FAAN has total number 23 airports which four are...

Like many other airports located around the world, Australia’s major have installed and are operating new green energy systems, such as, photovoltaic (PV) solar trigeneration systems. Using an instrumental case study research approach, this has examined how Brisbane Melbourne Airports mitigated their carbon footprint by using green, renewable The extensive use of these enabled both to reduce an...

Collisions between aircraft and birds, birdstrikes, pose a serious threat to aviation safety. The occurrence of these events is influenced by land-uses in the surroundings of airports. Airports located in the same region might have different trends for birdstrike risk, due to differences in the surrounding habitats. Here we developed a quantitative tool that assesses the risk of birdstrike base...

Land development in the vicinity of airports often leads to land-use that can attract birds that are hazardous to aviation operations. For this reason, certain forms of land-use have traditionally been discouraged within prescribed distances of Canadian airports. However, this often leads to an unrealistic prohibition of land-use in the vicinity of airports located in urban settings. Furthermor...

Aviation security relies on the assumption that risks can be mitigated through rule compliance. To assure this, the operational design and logistical process has fashioned airports into mass production organizations where human behaviors e of both employees and passengers e are defined within a rational and logical framework. However, recent empirical evidence raises some critical issues as to ...

With the growing demand for air transportation and the limited ability to increase capacity at key points in the air transportation system, there are concerns that, in the future, the system will not scale to meet demand. This situation will result in the generation and the propagation of delays throughout the system, impacting passengers’ quality of travel and more broadly the economy. There i...