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Kania, David. "Developmental Aspects of Regional Airports in the Czech Republic." Advanced Engineering Forum 12 (November 2014): 107–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/aef.12.107.
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This paper aims to compare the developmental aspects of regional airports in the Czech Republic. Only international airports were included in the selection, namely airports with an IATA code (IATA – International Air Transport Association). The following factors affected the selection of airports: air transport volume and the runway length. All public international airports with scheduled and non-scheduled commercial traffic have been included in the selection, these airports being The Brno – Tuřany Airport (BRQ), Leoš Janáček Airport Ostrava (OSR), Pardubice Airport (PED) and Karlovy Vary Airport (KLV). The list intentionally excludes the Vaclav Havel Airport (PRG), which, being the airport of the capital city, would have excessive impact on the evaluation of the monitored statistical data. In terms of individual airports, the author evaluates the impact of runway parameters, reference field length and the parameters of radio navigation and lighting equipment. Other monitored aspects include the population of the respective cities (or cities where the airport is located), the airport's location relative to the city centre and its transport connection. The last monitored aspect is the impact of competing foreign airports from across the border on the regional airport's development. The aim is to prove or disprove the idea that the airport with best equipment and location (airport with the greatest potential) should exhibit the best performance in terms of the number of passengers throughput, number of movements and the cargo throughput.
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Li, Yafei, and Meijun Teng. "Airport Group Operational Capacity Assessment and Analysis of Its Influencing Factors: Taking Typical Chinese Airport Group as an Example." Sustainability 15, no. 2 (January 14, 2023): 1654. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su15021654.
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As an important transportation hub for air transportation, airports have played an important role in promoting regional economic and social development and improving the comprehensive national transportation system. The exploration of the key factors affecting the airport’s operational capacity are of great importance to the sustainable development of the civil aviation transportation industry. In order to investigate the effect of airport operation, this paper selects 13 major airports in China’s three major airport groups as the objects, defines the airport operational capacity by using entropy method combined with relevant indicators, calculates and sorts the operational capacity of sample airports, and analyzes the operational capacity of their internal airports by taking airport groups as units. By using the Tobit regression model, this paper analyzes the important factors that affect the operational capacity of sub-airports within the airport group. The results show that the economic level, urban development and the degree of opening to the outside world have a positive impact on the airport operational capacity. Different regional airport groups have different influencing factors on internal sub-airports’ operational capacity.
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Gelžinis, Marius, and Aldona Jarašūnienė. "ASSESSMENT OF THE INFLUENCE OF STAKEHOLDERS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF LITHUANIAN AIRPORTS." Business: Theory and Practice 25, no. 1 (June 18, 2024): 333–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/btp.2024.20933.
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Air transport is the only way to reach Lithuania from abroad in the short and medium term. Despite a well-developed road network in the country, connections to other European capitals are long and inconvenient. 2014 July. Vilnius, Kaunas and Palanga airports were merged into one state-owned company, Lithuanian Airports (LTOU). Since then, the efficiency and overall profitability of LTOU operations have increased significantly. However, maintaining the airport’s current infrastructure is costly and needs upgrading and further investment. The company has repeatedly asked itself whether it can get more benefits by building one new Lithuanian airport or focusing on developing the existing three airports net. Stakeholders’ views and recommendations should be heard to make timely and appropriate decisions without a new airport’s technical and financial feasibility. An in-depth interview and secondary data analysis were selected for the empirical study. Thirteen employees of SE Lithuanian Airports and three of the Ministry of Transport and Communications of the Republic of Lithuania participated in the research. The following was used to analyse secondary data: SE Lithuanian Airport strategic plan, the material of strategic sessions, and a survey of the country’s population on the need for a new airport. The study found that stakeholders positively assess the long-term development projects of SE Lithuanian Airports, fully understanding the importance of airports and their contribution to the welfare of the state. Stakeholders can significantly impact results, so airport managers must consider whether they effectively involve stakeholders and, if not, how they can improve or encourage stakeholder involvement.
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Zhu, Dan, Huawei Wang, and Xianghua Tan. "Mining Delay Propagation Causality within an Airport Network from Historical Data." Aerospace 11, no. 7 (June 28, 2024): 533. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/aerospace11070533.
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Airport networks are interconnected through flight routes, with delays at upstream airports leading to delays at downstream airports, thus causing delay propagation. Exploring the mechanisms of delay propagation in airport networks provides scientific insights for managing and controlling delays in aviation systems. Existing methods, such as Granger causality tests and transfer entropy, must be revised to address the nonlinear causal relationships of delays in airport networks. So, this paper proposes a causality mining method for delay propagation in airport networks based on partial correlation-based multivariate conditional independence (PCMCI). This method comprehensively considers all airports and causality mining in two stages. The first stage uses conditional independence tests to obtain the parent node set of the target airport, which includes both true and false causal relationships. The second stage employs instantaneous conditional independence tests to eliminate false causal relationships and obtain test statistics representing the strength of causality. Based on historical delay data from US airports over a year, the experimental results show that multiple factors cause delay propagation in airport networks rather than a single causal relationship. The scope of delay propagation is limited, mainly affecting a few airports closely connected to it. Delays at airports with small flight volumes are more likely to propagate. Few airport pairs in the network mutually propagate delays and, often, delays at airports affected by a particular airport’s delay also exhibit causal relationships with each other. This method provides a new perspective for deepening the understanding of delay propagation mechanisms in airport networks.
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Tamara, Dewi, Asnan Furinto, Faik Fahmi, Heny Poerwanti, and Ratih Safitri. "AIRPORT CONGESTION AND CUSTOMER SATISFACTION AT SMALL AIRPORTS IN INDONESIA." EPH - International Journal of Business & Management Science 3, no. 4 (December 27, 2017): 25–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.53555/eijbms.v3i4.58.
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Congestion is a growing trend at major airports in Indonesia, as there is a general sense of what to expect when a hub or home airport begins approaching maximum capacity. Airports increased their capacity, safe and secure operations. Given that airports – which used to be known as local monopolies – now operate in a competitive environment, they now have invested massively in facilities to ensure customer satisfaction. In this research, the researchers aim to study whether airport congestion impacts customer satisfaction at secondary airports in Indonesia. The research will take place at Adisucipto International Airport in Yogyakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, known as congested small airports. The utilization rate is exceeding 370% of its planned capacity. The researchers specifically targeted departing international passengers at Terminal A during peak hours (6:00 AM – 8:00 AM) and did secondary research towards those leaving outside the airport’s peak hours (9:00 AM – 12:00 PM). The research approach is a descriptive analysis using questionnaires to 253 respondents (123 peak hour passengers & 130 non-peak hour passengers) to measure their expectations and perceived qualities at the airport. Based on the comprehensive service quality model, SERVQUAL, developed by Parasuraman, Zeithamal, and Berry (1988) and data processing using IBM’s SPSS, the researchers found no significant correlation between departure time and passengers’ perceptions in all five service dimensions. However, the discrepancy (gap) value between expectations and perceptions during non-peak hour departures is higher than that of the airport’s peak hour departures.
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Nõmmik, Allan, and Dago Antov. "European Regional Airport: Factors Influencing Efficency." Transport and Telecommunication Journal 21, no. 3 (June 1, 2020): 211–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ttj-2020-0017.
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AbstractDuring the recent decade a lot of research has been focused on identification of the importance of regional airport for the local economy and the measuring and predicting of the airport’s efficiency. With regard to individual airport planning it turns out that airports are not free in the optimization of infrastructure due the need to comply international aviation standards and recommended practices, one the one hand, and the tendency of air transportation system development including aircraft design and airlines’ fleet development, on the other. Furthermore, it is also important to take into account the specificity of each particular airport, including the traffic variability resulting from seasonality, with the airport’s mission geared to it. We found, tha t one of the reasons for the relatively low efficiency of regional airports, given the general trend in the growth in the number of seats for narrow-body aircraft. Likewise, it has been found, that the seasonality of air traffic at regional airports is comparatively high. In addition, this paper spotlights the ways the theoretical model of returns to scale affects the efficiency of the apron of the regional airport and briefly discusses the different interpretations of the definition of regional airport.
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Florido-Benítez, Lázaro. "THE WORLD AIRPORT AWARDS AS A QUALITY DISTINCTIVE AND MARKETING TOOL FOR AIRPORTS." Journal of Airline Operations and Aviation Management 1, no. 2 (December 27, 2022): 54–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.56801/jaoam.v1i2.4.
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This study aims to analyze the World Airport Awards as a quality distinctive and marketing tool by airports. It is a benchmarking study, and it uses secondary data from Skytrax, World Airport Awards, Airports Council International, International Air Transport Association, airport official websites and apps, App Store, and Google Play, to support research results. The method includes airport website benchmarking, communication, and marketing strategies by airports with the aim of analyzing the degree of utilization of the prize awarded by Skytrax. The study’s findings indicate that when an airport wins the Skytrax’s prize or it is positioned very good in the Skytrax’s ranking, this airport cites the achievement on its official app and website, with the aim of advertising and promoting the quality services and brand image worldwide. Furthermore, this study demonstrates that there is a high correlation between airport ranking and digital channels usage like airport’s website.
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Wei, Ming, Shaopeng Zhang, and Bo Sun. "Airport passenger flow, urban development and nearby airport capacity dynamic correlation: 2006-2019 time-series data analysis for Tianjin city, China." Electronic Research Archive 30, no. 12 (2022): 4447–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.3934/era.2022226.
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<abstract> <p>Airports, as integral components of the global aviation industry, experience dynamic changes in air passenger traffic load, which are also related to the trends of local urban development and airspace restrictions of nearby airports. Using time-series data from 2006 to 2019, this study comprehensively applied the autoregressive distributed lag and vector auto-regression mode approaches to identify causal relationships between the urban development factors, including GDP, population, tourism industry, industrial structure, etc., of Tianjin city (China); the Tianjin airport passenger flow; and the Beijing Capital airport's airspace restriction factor, namely, airport aircraft sorties. The results show that the growth of Tianjin city's GDP, primary industry and disposable income per capita was accompanied by a long-term decline in the passenger flow at the Tianjin airport. In addition, increased aircraft sorties of Tianjin airport, as well as the growth of primary, secondary and tertiary industries in Tianjin city, led to a short-term decline in passenger flow at the Tianjin airport. In general, there is variability in the long- and short-term impacts of urban economic structure on airport passenger flow, and this variability applies to other airports. The increased aircraft sorties at the Beijing Capital airport had a short-term positive impact on passenger flow at the Tianjin airport but resulted in a long-term decline of the latter's aircraft sorties. This phenomenon indicates that there is interaction between airports and that this influence varies depending on the competition and cooperation mechanisms between airports. The findings of this study are considered instrumental in guiding the competitive and cooperative strategies of nearby airports and predicting the coupled trends of the airport and urban development.</p> </abstract>
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Suh, Daniel, and Megan S. Ryerson. "Frameworks for Adaptive Airport Planning and Techniques for a New Era of Planning." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2603, no. 1 (January 2017): 65–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/2603-07.
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Airport planners, in determining the long-term development of an airport's infrastructure, estimate future use of the airport by using two loose categories of methods: ( a) peer group learning and ( b) forecasting. In peer group learning, airport planners compare their airports with like airports and engage in peer-to-peer exchange of information about lessons learned from past experiences and technical and planning guidance. The blend of quantitative and qualitative methodologies can be a powerful tool for airport planners because the planners can validate their forecasts with the actual experiences at similar airports. In the current state of the aviation industry, airport planners must engage in peer group learning because the environment in which they are planning their airports is more volatile than it was previously; however, while forecasting has been well studied by scholars and airport planners, peer group learning has attracted relatively less attention. Given the role of peer group learning in airport planning, airport planners must pay careful attention to how they define their peers in ever-evolving economic and industrial environments. Since deregulation of the airline industry in the 1970s, the airport system has become much more nuanced and is no longer easily defined, while airport planners often resort to single metrics such as enplanements as a peer criterion. This study developed and tested a peer identification methodology that reflects volatilities in the economy and the airport industry by using an expanded list of both static and dynamic metrics. This methodology highlights an important lesson that metrics matter in the ways in which airports identify their peers, benchmark their performance, and help to improve their plans.
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Dimitriou, Dimitrios, Mary Sartzetaki, Asimina Voskaki, and George Athanasiadis. "AN INPUT OUTPUT MODEL TO QUANTIFY THE BENEFITS OF TOURIST AIRPORTS ON REGIONAL ECONOMY." Journal of Air Transport Studies 2, no. 2 (July 1, 2011): 92–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.38008/jats.v2i2.102.
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Airports are widely recognized as having a considerable economic and social impact on their surrounding regions. These impacts go far beyond the direct impact of an airport’s operation, extending also to the wider benefits that air service accessibility brings to regional business interests. Airports provide essential infrastructure to support regional social and economic growth. According to ACI, airports are major economic assets offering significant economic returns and benefits. A growing literature on this subject highlights the difficulties to calculate the effects of airports. This paper deals with the estimation of benefits of touristairports on regional economy. The methodology approach is based on an input-output model that - estimates the key categories of effects from tourist airport operations. Conventional wisdom is to present a well-organized modeling framework, appropriate for planners, mana gers and decision makers in order to quantify the effects of tourism airports on regional economies. The application is a new airport on the island of Crete in Greece, one of the most attractive tourist destinations in southeast Mediterranean.
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Bełej, Mirosław, Radosław Cellmer, and Michał Głuszak. "The Impact of Airport Proximity on Single-Family House Prices—Evidence from Poland." Sustainability 12, no. 19 (September 24, 2020): 7928. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12197928.
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Airports in Poland are obliged to observe the sustainable development principle and therefore to reduce their environmental impact by creating so-called limited use areas (LUA) related to aircraft-generated noise. The research authors analyzed airports’ impact on the prices of single-family homes located in the vicinity of airports. The LUA is therefore defined as the area designated to study the airport’s specific impact on the single-family housing market. This is a formal limit which determines the examination of price changes and the decision-making conditions of market participants. This methodical approach is justified because no excessive noise is expected outside the LUA. Therefore, two markets in the vicinity of airports were examined. One is in an LUA which is closer to the airport, and the other market is outside the LUA where external noise effects are not present. Thus, we consider that real estate located outside the LUA is not subject to a significant negative impact from the airport. The study covered the Gdańsk Lech Walesa Airport and the Warsaw Chopin Airport in Poland in adjacent areas with the research time horizon of 2013–2017. The study examined single-family house prices. We used a time series analysis, a classic multiple regression model, a spatial autoregressive model, and geographically weighted regression models in our research. Additionally, Geographical Information System (GIS) tools were used to visualize the results of our study. The research result was to demonstrate different impact levels of airports on the prices of single-family houses located in limited-use areas in Gdańsk and Warsaw. This research carries significant implications for the general public and airports’ economic decisions in resolving conflicts between the airport and residential property owners in airports’ vicinities.
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Shastitko, Andrey, and Natalya Pavlova. "Assessing the boundaries of the airport services market: Grounds for tariff deregulation." Upravlenets 14, no. 5 (November 7, 2023): 2–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.29141/2218-5003-2023-14-5-1.
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The aviation industry has recently witnessed a series of crises that changed its competitive landscape. In Russia, due to passenger flows redirected to domestic flights and the growing role of large airports as hubs, there are reasons to deregulate tariffs for airport services on domestic flights. Pulkovo (Saint Petersburg, Russia) is among the airports facing this issue. However, deregulation implies sufficient competitive pressure from other airports, in particular those included in the Moscow Aviation Hub (MAH). The article assesses the geographical boundaries of the market where the Pulkovo Airport operates, in order to establish whether it is the same market for the MAH airports. Methodologically, the study relies on the principles of industrial organization theory. Among the research methods are the hypothetical monopolist test and critical loss analysis. Empirical evidence covers data of an online survey conducted in March 2023 with 1,613 respondents who made domestic flights in 2019–2023. The analysis of the market in which Pulkovo provides its services shows that its boundaries extend beyond Saint Petersburg and cover at least Moscow airports, which indicates that Pulkovo is up against strong competition from Moscow airports in terms of domestic destinations. Thus, it seems expedient to deregulate the Pulkovo airport’s tariffs on domestic flights.
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Shanliang, Liu, Li Yunlong, Qu Jingyi, and Wu Renbiao. "Airport UAV and birds detection based on deformable DETR." Journal of Physics: Conference Series 2253, no. 1 (April 1, 2022): 012024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2253/1/012024.
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Abstract The aviation industry is growing rapidly, but due to inadequate airport surveillance technology, there have been incidents of UAV intruding into airports and birds striking aircraft in the clearance area. Existing airports use radar-based detection technology to monitor UAV and birds in the clearance area, and they cannot correctly identify the type and number of UAV and the size and number of birds. Based on this problem, this paper proposes a deformable DETR (DEtection TRansformer) based detection method for UAV and birds to assist airports to better supervise the clearance area and reduce safety hazards. In response to the small size of airport UAV and birds, we adopt a deformable DETR object detection method using multi-feature fusion to detect UAV and birds in the airport environment. The model has good detection performance with mAP of 75.2 and recall of 95.0%, which meets the airport’s requirements for UAV and bird detection, as verified by the actual data collection. This method can help to improve surveillance methods within the clearance area of airports and can also provide technical support for the detection of small objects in other areas.
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Hong, Seock-Jin, and Minjun Jeon. "The Technical Efficiency of French Regional Airports and Low-Cost Carrier Terminals." Sustainability 11, no. 18 (September 18, 2019): 5107. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11185107.
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In France, the regional airport’s demand for services is facing challenges due to the continuous expansion of the high-speed train, high-speed line, and highway networks. This study focuses on the viability of regional airports in France through technical efficiency using data envelopment, principle component analysis, Malmquist productivity index, and regression analysis using bootstrapping. To face the current competitive environment, the regional airports in France adopted strategies, such as the construction of low-cost carrier (LCC)-dedicated terminals (LCCTs) with lower expenses to attract more LCCs, increasing non-aeronautical revenue, and hosting regional hubs of LCCs. This is the first study that analyzes all of the French regional airports. The findings indicate that the existence of LCCTs positively affects technical efficiency on the airport’s performance, and share of LCCs at a regional airport leads to neither the efficiency nor the profit level.
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Lee, SangRyeong, Jin-Woo Park, and Sukhoon Chung. "The Effects of Corporate Social Responsibility on Corporate Reputation: The Case of Incheon International Airport." Sustainability 14, no. 17 (September 1, 2022): 10930. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su141710930.
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This study aims to intensively analyze the effects of Incheon International Airport’s implementation of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) on its reputation. CSR activities constitute a significant role as management strategies and sustain their business reputation in the airport industry based on the Incheon International airport in Korea. The purpose of this study is to provide CSR activities to promote the sustainable development of airports by verifying the impact of CSR on airport reputation through mediate variables within the airport industry in consideration of the value and importance of CSR. A survey was conducted for a total of 297 Incheon International Airport users, and the collected data was analyzed using the structural equation model. As a result, it was found that CSR has a positive effect on reputation. Therefore, CSR activities can positively enhance customer perception, strengthen the importance of sustainability, and play a very important role in Korea’s airport industry. It is expected that the results of this study will be used as basic data to emphasize the relative importance of airports’ CSR activities to enhance the reputation of airports in Korea and have a positive impact on sustainable development.
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Fantoni, Anna, Douglas M. Mansel, and Peter B. Mandle. "Premium Public Parking Services: A Way to Improve Parking Operations at Airports." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1703, no. 1 (January 2000): 105–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/1703-14.
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Premium public parking services, such as valet, reserved, and business parking, are becoming increasingly popular at U.S. airports. They offer an enhanced level of customer service; are important business opportunities and sources of revenue for airports; contribute to reduction of curbside congestion, thereby encouraging travelers to park instead of being dropped off or picked up; and improve an airport’s ability to compete with privately operated, off-airport parking facilities. A study was conducted at more than 14 U.S. airports and demonstrated that successful premium public parking services provide a good combination of location, parking capacity, rate structure, quality of service, and business arrangements. Although these factors are very specific to each airport, general guidelines for parking managers who wish to optimize existing parking facilities, maximize net parking revenues, and provide a high level of customer service are outlined.
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Piletska, Samira T. "Formation of a Competitive Strategy of the Airport in Conditions of Uncertainty." Business Inform 10, no. 537 (2022): 193–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.32983/2222-4459-2022-10-193-198.
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The article states that airports as part of the transport system are the most important component of the national, regional and local infrastructure. It has been proven that the basis of the airport's competitive strategy is the need to ensure its effective operation by adapting to the uncertainty of the external environment; is a tool for the formation and maintenance of competitive advantage, the basis of optimal distribution and effective use of resources. The purpose of the study is to develop a system approach to the formation of a competitive strategy of airports in conditions of uncertainty of the influence of the external environment. It is proved that the system of forming the competitive strategy of the airport is presented in the form of the following subsystems: information support for forming the competitiveness of the airport; airport competitiveness management; planning and forecasting the airport's competitive strategy; complex adaptability to changing operating conditions. It is substantiated that the competitive strategy of the airport: determines the direction of development of the airport as a system, its mission, goals, main tasks, forms and content of activity; establishes a uniform system of priorities for the airport and determines directions for their implementation; is the basis for making decisions in the field of transport policy and the growth of airport capitalization, the development of target programs for the development of the infrastructural component; is considered as a basis for developing a unified vision of the airport's modern role and prospects for its development, interaction with executive and legislative authorities of various levels, business, and users of air transport services. Further developments are aimed at developing a mechanism for forming a competitive strategy of airports in conditions of uncertainty.
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Zubenko, Andrey N., and Alexander A. Kurdin. "Validity of Regulation of Airport Services Fees and Tariffs." Journal of Modern Competition 17, no. 5 (October 30, 2023): 19–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.37791/2687-0657-2023-17-5-19-40.
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The article examines the problem of the validity of regulation of airport services’ fees and tariffs. The study is relevant amid criticism of the need for regulation in the context of commercialization of the industry given the disputes over natural monopoly’ status of airports, potential competition between airports and the viability of alternative transaction governance mechanisms. The objective of the research is to analyze possible justifications for the necessity of airport services regulation and to reveal limitations of each of justifications. The analysis is carried out within the framework of two approaches: the natural monopoly model of the theory of industry organization and a comparative analysis of discrete structural alternatives from the new institutional economic theory. The following results were obtained. Firstly, the research shows that the necessity of regulation within the framework of these approaches is justified by the presence of two risks – the risk of abuse of a dominant position and the risk of expropriation of investments made by consumers of airport services. Secondly, concerning the limitations of the justifications, the article systematizes the factors contributing to the strengthening or weakening of the market power of airports. Thirdly, the research identifies the characteristics of airports that are subject to examination when examining the need of for regulation. Fourth, it is demonstrated that the level of risk of expropriation of assets varies depending on the scale of the airport’s activities and the role of the airport in the route networks of airlines. Thus, the paper concludes that within the framework of each of the approaches considered, the decision to introduce regulation of services at airports should be made not for the industry as a whole, but for individual airports, and shows the possible risks of a selective approach to regulating services at airports (the expansion of the regulator’s discretion, the increase in the regulator’s costs due to the need for analysis for the airports under consideration, corruption risks), which must be taken into account when designing relevant regulations if a decision is made to implement the proposed approach to regulation.
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de Quadra Magalhães, Ivaciane, Anderson Ribeiro Correia, Michelle Carvalho Galvão da Silva Pinto Bandeira, Mauro Zackiewicz, and Luiz Antonio Tozi. "Comparing Enhanced Models for Evaluating the Economic Impact of Airports." Future Transportation 3, no. 3 (September 20, 2023): 1124–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/futuretransp3030062.
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Evaluating the economic impact of airports is crucial for understanding the benefits they bring to a region. However, when an area has more than one airport, it becomes essential to analyze each airport’s contribution to the local economy to make informed investment and policy decisions. Thus, studying economic models that can distinguish each airport’s impact on the region’s economy becomes essential. In this context, this paper aims to compare three different approaches to determine the economic contributions of airports in a given region and identify their social and economic benefits. The International Civil Aviation Organization recommends using input–output analysis in this context. The study considered three weight factors for the input–output basic model: circular buffer, displacement time, and Huff’s gravitational model. The analysis was performed using the three largest airports in São Paulo state, Brazil, due to their proximity and influence on the surrounding areas. The models were compared based on their efficiency and accuracy in reflecting the reality of the case study context. The study identified the most suitable model for establishing correlations between investments made in airport infrastructure and the generation of gross domestic product, employment, and added value. This study fills a gap in the existing literature by proposing improvements to the methods for evaluating airports’ economic and social benefits. In recent times, airport investors, both in the government and private sectors, have become increasingly demanding in their need for accurate analyses before making investments. Therefore, the results of this paper will provide valuable insights into the benefits of investing in airport infrastructure and help policymakers and investors make informed decisions.
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Hylton, Peter, and Catherine L. Ross. "Air Cargo Forecasting in an Age of Electronic Retail." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2672, no. 29 (October 17, 2018): 48–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0361198118799708.
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Airports face numerous difficulties in capital planning as a result of instability and unpredictable demand. Some trends such as excess bellyhold capacity have depressed demand for dedicated cargo flights, whereas others like growth in electronic retail (e-retail) are stimulating demand unevenly among airports. If e-retail distribution is following a different pattern from general cargo, then it may reshuffle cargo volumes among airports in a way that is unforeseeable by most forecasting approaches. It has been difficult to estimate whether e-retail shipments would follow the same geospatial patterns as general cargo because of the dearth of data on e-retail distribution networks. This study examines domestically oriented e-retail logistics to test its relationship with airport cargo throughput controlling for regional variables that also influence cargo volume. The regression models show that an airport’s accessibility to landside e-retail logistics activity helps predict that airport’s cargo volume in a way that access to traditional retail logistics does not. The findings support the alternative hypothesis that e-retail may reconfigure distribution networks and boost cargo volume at some airports, opening opportunities to gain market share for airports that are new to e-retail. Depending on the extent of the reconfiguration, e-retail growth could temporarily degrade the accuracy of common forecasting methods. Airports can respond by collecting qualitative and quantitative data where possible and adopting scenario-based, adaptive policy making that hedges risks.
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Woodburn, Amber. "Investigating Neighborhood Change in Airport-Adjacent Communities in Multiairport Regions, 1970–2010." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2626, no. 1 (January 2017): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/2626-01.
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This research generated new knowledge in the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of airport-adjacent communities to better understand patterns of exposure to the negative externalities of hub airports over time. The research asked the following question: How has the population of historically marginalized groups living near airports changed with the rise of the jet age? The spatial analysis and descriptive statistics showed that airport-adjacent communities in multiairport regions generally have increased numbers of persons of color and increased numbers of renters compared with their respective metropolitan regions. In addition, the communities often underperform socioeconomically with respect to their region. The study also tested three theories from the literature to explain the relationship between airport infrastructure and the airport’s surrounding communities: the “power to resist” effect, the “push–pull locally unwanted land use” effect, and the “airport-centric activity center” effect.
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P, Saleena, P. K. Swetha, and D. Radha. "Analysis and visualization of airport network to strengthen the economy." International Journal of Engineering & Technology 7, no. 2 (May 11, 2018): 708. http://dx.doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i2.9915.
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The world’s eminent airports are directly or indirectly connected to many other airports. Every airport is considered as a node and the route can be considered as edge connecting them. The work analyzes the USA airport network using different centrality measures of social network analysis. The centrality measures calculated on airport network help in identification of certain characteristics of the airports. Some of the characteristics are like the busiest airport and the airports which influence trade, alternate path, fastest route, nearest airports, etc. The characteristics helps to find the designated airports meant for improving the economy. The results of this paper say about the prominent communication and connections among the airports in the U.S.A. The tools used for the analysis are UCINET 6 and NetDraw.
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Tsui, Wai Hong Kan, and Faruk Balli. "International arrivals forecasting for Australian airports and the impact of tourism marketing expenditure." Tourism Economics 23, no. 2 (September 20, 2016): 403–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.5367/te.2015.0507.
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An airport’s international passenger arrivals are susceptible to exogenous and endogenous factors (such as economic conditions, flight services, fluctuations and shocks). Accurate and reliable airport passenger demand forecasts are imperative for policymaking and planning by airport and airline management as well as by tourism authorities and operators. This article employs the Box–Jenkins SARIMA, SARIMAX and SARIMAX/EGARCH volatility models to forecast international passenger arrivals for the eight key Australian airports (Adelaide, Brisbane, Cairns, Darwin, Gold Coast, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney). Monthly international tourist arrivals between January 2006 and September 2012 are used for the empirical analysis. All the forecasting models are highly accurate with the lower values of mean absolute percentage error, mean absolute error and root mean squared error. The findings suggest that the international passenger arrivals of Australian airports are affected by positive and negative shocks and tourism marketing expenditure is also a significant factor influencing the majority of Australian airports’ international passenger arrivals.
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Baxter, Glenn. "Towards Carbon Neutral Airport Operations Through the Use of Renewable Energy Sources: The Case of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and Indira Gandhi International Airports, India." International Journal of Environment, Agriculture and Biotechnology 8, no. 2 (2023): 084–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijeab.82.9.
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A very significant development in the global airport industry in recent times has been the introduction and use of green renewable energy systems, such as solar and wind powered hybrid systems. Airports are very energy intensive and have a significant carbon footprint. Thus, the use of renewable green energy is enabling airports to reduce their carbon footprint thereby mitigating their environmental impact. Using an in-depth instrumental case study research design, this study has examined the use of renewable green energy systems by Delhi’s Indira Gandhi Airport and Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport. The case study revealed that Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport has entirely switched to green sources for its energy consumption needs, thereby making it one of India’s 100 per cent sustainable airports. In April 2022, Mumbai Airport enhanced its usage of green energy when it deployed a 10Kwp Hybrid SolarMill consisting of 2Kwp TurboMill (three Savonious vertical axis type wind turbine (VAWT) and 8Kwp Solar PV modules. The new system has enabled Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport to reduce its carbon footprint as the new system will reduce its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 120,000 tonnes per year. In 2022, Delhi’s Indira Gandhi Airport became the first airport in India to be powered entirely by hydro and solar energy sources. This energy-related measure is one of the airport’s key actions to realize its 2030 objective of being a Net Zero Carbon Emission Airport. By moving to renewable sources for its energy requirements, the airport is expected to reduce its carbon footprint by around 200,000 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per annum. The use of green energy sources has helped the airports to mitigate the harmful environmental impact from the use of fossil-based fuels.
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Horobtsov, Inokentii, Larysa Cherniak, Margaryta Radomska, Oksana Tykhenko, and Kateryna Synylo. "Development of a cognitive model for the analysis of relationships in the airport environmental management system." Ecological Safety and Balanced Use of Resources 14, no. 2 (October 5, 2023): 9–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.69628/esbur/2.2023.09.
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Aviation enterprises (airports) are massive facilities with a variety of effects on the environment, yet, those influences are significantly understudied and lack structuring, leaving the airports at low levels of sustainability and with impaired management. Thus, the aim of this research was to compile the mind map to describe a system of environmental impacts and problems associated with the airports. The model (map) was created by conducting complex multi-stage expert surveys with scoping of elements of airport management system, which identified 68 factors belonging to 8 groups. The factors are related to atmospheric air, soil and water, flora and fauna, physical impacts, organisational, environmental, administrative, logistical and spatial issues, construction and technical solutions as well as social, economic and human factors. With the help of ranking based on experts’ judgements, 13 most relevant (key) factors of the impact on the environment were distinguished. To build an oriented graph of the airport management system and analyse it, the approach of drawing arcs (arrows) of impact was used. It is found that the most influential factors tend to be dynamic, related to the planning stages of airports and instead of purely environmental ones are interdisciplinary. The annual passenger traffic at the airport, compliance with the standards of sanitary protection zones, airport’s capacity and types of aircraft received by the airport demonstrated the highest impact on the airport environmental management system. In combination with studies of the effects of individual factors and the impact of the airport on the environment, the results of the work can be applied practically in the management and decision-making processes regarding the environmental safety of the airport
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Koltsov, I. V., and V. A. Romanenko. "OPTIMIZATION OF SPARE PARTS SUPPLY SYSTEM FOR PRODUCTION DIVISIONS OF AIRPORT NETWORK." Izvestiya of Samara Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences 25, no. 3 (2023): 50–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.37313/1990-5378-2023-25-3-50-56.
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The problem of optimal design of the spare parts supply system for the baggage handling systems of a group of airports is solved. It is assumed that the airports belonging to the group will be equipped with baggage systems of one manufacturer, which will supply them with spare parts during the operational phase. One of the airports will function as a passenger transfer center (hub) for a hub-forming airline, which will organize mass transfer flights between the airports of the group. The proposed system will consist of a tiered system for spare parts supply, including warehouses at the manufacturer's, hub airport and other (peripheral) airports, and a combined strategy of spare parts supplies, including periodic supplies from the manufacturer's warehouse to the warehouses of airports, on-line supplies from the hub warehouse to the warehouses of peripheral airports, and, in case of deficit, on-line supplies to the hub airport's warehouse. The aim of the solution of the problem is to determine the volume of spare parts production which is optimal by the criterion of minimum costs of production, storage and stock replenishment. The results of model examples, testifying to the validity of the considered statement of the problem and efficiency of the proposed system of spare parts supply, are presented.
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Rucińska, Danuta, and Andrzej Ruciński. "THE EVOLUTION OF THE INTERDEPENDENCE OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF AIRPORTS AND SETTLEMENT STRUCTURES." Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego. Ekonomika Transportu i Logistyka 70 (November 24, 2017): 37–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0010.5921.
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There is a strong interdependence between the development of airports and settlement structures which determines the extent of their growth and the way in which they operate. Systematic studies confirm their evolutionary nature which is characterized by the introduction of innovative solutions. This article aims to analyze the determinants, scope, and effect of influence of: airports on contemporary settlement structures in terms of urbanization and regionalization; settlement systems on the development and growth of airports and neighbouring areas including selected Polish airports. In addition to this the development trends of the spatial and functional airports’ landside, which in the 21st century are reflected in modern structures such as airport cities and aerotropolis, are also identified. The article is divided into four parts entitled: 1. Airport as a determinant of development and transformation of settlement structures; 2. The evolution of airports’ influence in terms of urbanization and regionalization; 3. Contemporary airports’ landside – airport city, aerotropolis, airport corridor, airport region and area; 4. Airport cities in Poland. The article is based on a long-term, systematic, and multidirectional study conducted by the authors.
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Baxter, Glenn. "Mitigating Aircraft Auxiliary Power Unit Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Emissions During the Aircraft Turnaround Process from the Use of Solar Power at the Airport Gate: The Case of Moi International Airport, Kenya." International Journal of Environment, Agriculture and Biotechnology 7, no. 1 (2022): 014–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijeab.71.2.
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One of the most pervasive trends in the global airport industry in recent times has been the adoption of green renewable technologies. Many airports around the world have now installed photovoltaic (PV) solar systems as a key environmental measure. One of the critical areas of energy management at an airport is the provision of power and cooling at the gate, which is used during the aircraft turnaround process. Historically, the aircraft auxiliary power unit (APU) was the primary power source during the aircraft turnaround process. In recent times, airports have transitioned to the use of fixed electrical ground power (FEGP) and preconditioned air to mitigate the emissions from use of aircraft auxiliary power unit (APUs). Based on an instrumental case study research approach, this study has examined how Moi International Airport in Kenya has mitigated the airport’s carbon footprint by using a green, renewable energy system. The study’s qualitative data was examined by document analysis. The case study revealed that Moi International Airport has installed a photovoltaic (PV) solar system with a 500kW capacity that is used to primarily provide solar power at the airport’s apron area. The photovoltaic (PV) solar system has delivered Moi International Airport with an important environmental related benefit as it has enabled the airport to reduce it carbon footprint, as the photovoltaic (PV) solar system has reduced the airport’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by an estimated 1,300 tonnes per annum.
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Park, Jae Hee, and Ji Hee Kim. "The Impact of Airport Managerial Type and Airline Market Share on Airport Efficiency." Sustainability 13, no. 2 (January 19, 2021): 981. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13020981.
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This paper investigates the impact of airport managerial type and airline market structure on airport efficiency. It explores whether the market shares of the largest airlines differ depending on the managerial type of the airport. In this study, the efficiency scores for the sample airport are measured through DEA (Data Envelop Analysis), and the impacts of the airport managerial type and dominant carrier market share on airport efficiency are subsequently estimated through CEM (Coarsened Exact Matching). This paper concludes that group airports are more efficient than the standalone airports, and the market shares of the largest airlines have a positive impact on enhancing airport efficiency. In addition, the market shares of the largest airlines are found to be higher for group airports than for standalone airports. These findings can serve as practical guidelines for governments and airport authorities by suggesting that efficiency improves when multiple standalone airports are operated as a group through the M&A of airports or the establishment of airport operation agencies. While facing unprecedented challenges from the spread of COVID 19, this paper also suggests that an increase in airline market share through airport–airline cooperation has a positive impact on airport efficiency.
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Guo, Jiuxia, Xinping Zhu, Chenxi Liu, and ShuzhiSam Ge. "Resilience Modeling Method of Airport Network Affected by Global Public Health Events." Mathematical Problems in Engineering 2021 (February 4, 2021): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/6622031.
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The COVID-19 global pandemic hit the aviation industry hard since the end of 2019. It has had an immediate, dramatic impact on airport traffic and revenue. Airports are the important nodes in the aviation system network, and the failure of a single airport can often affect the surrounding airports. The purpose of our analysis is to show how is the resilience and recovery of airports in the global public health crisis. Much research on resilience can be found in air transportation networks facing natural hazards or extreme weather, which focus on the robustness of the airport network. These methods are not suitable for the global public health event. Therefore, based on the collection of existing data, we combined with existing resilience measurement methods to analyze the resilience and recovery of airports during the global public health crisis. The resilience metrics results reflect the recovery of airports very well under different strategies. Here, we analyze airport network resilience by considering the performance-based methods. We integrate some metrics such as aircraft movements, passenger throughput, and freight throughput in the resilience metrics model, comparing the resilience evaluation under different preventive and control strategies, which can reflect the airport’s recovery speed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our analysis indicates that the aviation system network deteriorates soon after the COVID-19 outbreak, but the recovery level of the aviation industry depends on what measures are taken to prevent and control the COVID-19 epidemic. In particular, the recovery of the aviation system network in Europe takes longer than in China, due to different prevention and control strategies for COVID-19. The study proves that the emergency response ability of the country for the public health crisis has a significant positive impact on speeding up the recovery of the aviation system.
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Baxter, Glenn, Panarat Srisaeng, and Graham Wild. "An Assessment of Sustainable Airport Water Management: The Case of Osaka’s Kansai International Airport." Infrastructures 3, no. 4 (November 29, 2018): 54. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/infrastructures3040054.
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Airports are an essential infrastructure to facilitate aviation. The substantial growth of aviation has led to a significant increase in water usage by airports. Airports also generate large volumes of wastewater that may include contaminants. Hence, understanding sustainable water management practices is essential in the aviation industry. In this study, an exploratory research design was utilized in the examination of the sustainable water management strategies and systems at Kansai International Airport from 2002 to 2016. The qualitative data were examined using document analysis as part of a case study. The quantitative data were analyzed using regression analysis as part of a longitudinal study. The airport has been able to reduce the total water consumption, water consumption per passenger, and water consumption per aircraft movement, even with increased traffic in recent years. The airport sources water from the municipal authorities and reclaims water for non-potable water uses. The airport conducts regular water quality tests which measure the Chemical oxygen demand, total nitrogen, and total phosphates. The airport’s onsite wastewater processing centre processes all wastewaters, which discharges non-reclaimed water into Osaka Bay. With a decrease in water consumption, there has similarly been a decrease in the need to treat wastewater, while the reclaimed water ratio has increased over the period of the study.
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Smirnov, Anton, Evgeniy Smolokurov, Vladimir Tarikov, and Sergei Krovsh. "Correlation between the quality of service and economic performance of airports illustrated by Pulkovo airport and Denver international airport." E3S Web of Conferences 363 (2022): 01013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202236301013.
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The article analyzes the relationship between the level of airport service and their commercial performance. The airports chosen for comparison are Pulkovo Airport, one of the largest airports in Russia (the second largest by area) and the fourth largest by passenger traffic in Russia, as well as Denver International Airport, the largest airport in the United States. The study provides a brief description of Pulkovo Airport and Denver International Airport, gives quality of service assessments in these airports, based on which the main service problems in the abovementioned airports are identified, as well as the possible factors that led to these problems. It is revealed and proved that regardless of the location and size of the airports, the main goal of their owners is to make the biggest profit, the quality of passenger service decreases every year, while the amount of profit derived from the operation of these airports, on the contrary, grows.
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Baxter, Glenn. "Towards sustainable airport waste management through the adoption of a "green" airport strategy: The case of Incheon International Airport." Clean Technologies and Recycling 2, no. 4 (2022): 247–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.3934/ctr.2022013.
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<abstract> <p>One of the most significant environmental challenges confronting airports is their sustainable management of solid wastes. This is because airport's produce large volumes of wastes as a byproduct of their operations. Considering this, airports are increasingly focusing on managing their wastes in an environmentally sustainable manner. Using an in-depth longitudinal case study research approach, this study has examined Seoul's Incheon International Airport sustainable waste management. Incheon International Airport is a major air hub and is the home base for Korean Air. The study period was from 2010 to 2020. Incheon International Airport has six discrete waste streams: construction wastes, designated wastes, general wastes, incinerated wastes, landfill disposed wastes, and recycled wastes. The case study revealed that the airport aims to recycle wastes wherever possible. This policy has resulted in recycled wastes becoming the airport's largest source of wastes during the study period. At the airport, suitable combustible wastes are incinerated and the waste heat from the incineration is captured for further use by the airport. Incheon International Airport has undertaken substantial construction works during the study period, and these were the airport's second most significant waste stream during the study period. In the case of waste construction items, these wastes are handled by external waste treatment firms or alternatively they are incinerated by the airport. To underpin its sustainable waste management, the airport operates a recycling center that is equipped with can compressors and separators which ensures an efficient resource cycling system. A resource classification treatment facility is also used to efficiently manage and enhance the recycle rate of wastes from the airport's facilities and its operations.</p> </abstract>
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Eshtaiwi, Mohamed Ibrahim, Ibrahim A. Badi, Ali M. Abdulshahed, and Turan Erman Erkan. "Assessment of airport performance using the grey theory method." Grey Systems: Theory and Application 7, no. 3 (November 6, 2017): 426–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/gs-07-2017-0023.
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Purpose Performance evaluation of airports or any other organisation is paramount for improving performance. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate and compare the performance of the three international airports in Libya (MJI, MRA, and LAQ airports) by considering five aspects of performance. Design/methodology/approach The considered aspects are airport service quality, airport operations, airport economy, safety and security, and environmental. The paper uses the grey system theory to assess these airports by summarizing the opinions of experts. Findings The finding of this study provides directions of the evaluated airports to take the correct actions to improve overall performance. Originality/value No literature has been found till date is to evaluate and compare the performance of the international airports in Libya.
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Baxter, Glenn, Panarat Srisaeng, and Graham Wild. "An Assessment of Airport Sustainability: Part 3—Water Management at Copenhagen Airport." Resources 8, no. 3 (July 29, 2019): 135. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/resources8030135.
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Sustainable water management is critical for airports as they consume substantial volumes of water to maintain their infrastructure and operations. Airports also generate large volumes of surface and waste waters. The aim of this study was to examine Copenhagen Airport’s sustainable water management strategies and systems from 2006 to 2016. The study used a longitudinal qualitative research design. The annual water consumption at Copenhagen Airport has risen from 2006 to 2016 in line with the increased passenger volumes and aircraft movements. Drinking water is sourced from the Taarnby and Dragør municipal water works. Non-potable water is used wherever possible and is sourced from a local remedial drilling. Copenhagen Airport uses two separate sewer systems for handling surface and wastewater. These waters are not discharged to same system due to their different nature. To mitigate environmental risks and impacts on soil, water, and local communities; the quality of drinking, ground, and surface water are regularly monitored. The airport has implemented various water saving initiatives, such as, an aquifer thermal energy system, to reduce water consumption. The strategies, systems, and the water-saving initiatives have successfully underpinned Copenhagen Airport’s sustainable water management.
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Kazda, Antonín, Marek Turiak, and Karol Gőtz. "AIRPORT TYPOLOGY FOR LCC POLICY CHANGES: A EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE." Aviation 24, no. 3 (August 27, 2020): 90–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/aviation.2020.12051.
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This paper proposes a new airport typology that might arise from the expansion of airports with dominant low cost carrier traffic. In the first part of the paper, the typologies and different airport categorizations are reviewed with examples of current taxonomies used by principal international organizations. However, none of the current airport taxonomies takes into account low cost (LCC) carriers and cannot be used to create an airport market strategy with LCC operation. The paper highlights the characteristic of LCC features, the differences between the LCC airlines, and the characteristics of secondary – low cost airports. Finally, the paper proposes a new taxonomy of airports with low cost operations based on the airport data analysis and expert panel elucidation. For identification of airports with a high share of low cost carriers, Eurocontrol 2013 data on airline types and movements were used. The novel classification of low cost airports enables management to design marketing strategies to respond to LCC dominance and its implications. The main contribution of this research is to provide a novel classification for low cost airports which is relatively new phenomenon comparing with the problems of full service carriers dominance at large airports.
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Pishdar, Mahsa, Fatemeh Ghasemzadeh, and Jurgita Antuchevičienė. "A MIXED INTERVAL TYPE-2 FUZZY BEST-WORST MACBETH APPROACH TO CHOOSE HUB AIRPORT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: CASE OF IRANIAN PASSENGER AIRPORTS." Transport 34, no. 6 (December 19, 2019): 639–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/transport.2019.11723.
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Hub airports are the ones that model networks in which most journeys go via a few central points. Famous hub airports deliver positive social and environmental impact to the communities along with economic effects. This paper is about to investigate indicators related to hub performance excellence from various angles, considering leading hub airports performance while determining the priorities in order to help airports especially in developing countries to find the way of progress. A list of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) is prepared from the literature, which is prioritized using Best-Worst Method (BWM). The weights of these criteria are specified via application of interval type-2 fuzzy BWM. Then using five most important criteria, MACBETH (Measuring Attractiveness by a Categorical Based Evaluation TecHnique) ranking approach is used to analyse 19 Iranian international airports and find the most appropriate one for being hub airport. The results show Kish airport with the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) code “OIBK” is prior to other airports and can be chosen as the hub airport that means Iran airports holding company is suggested to focus more investments in this airport to gain fastest possible benefits of an international hub airport.
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Gu, Yue, and Mary E. Johnson. "Multiple-Case Study of U.S. General Aviation Airports for Operational Sustainability." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2674, no. 7 (June 22, 2020): 608–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0361198120924414.
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Improving operational sustainability may help U.S. general aviation (GA) airports improve overall sustainable development without substantial financial inputs. An exploratory multiple-case study of five GA airports was conducted to explore the current understandings of airport operational sustainability among U.S. GA airports. Based on findings, a new definition of airport operational sustainability for U.S. GA airports was developed. A set of performance metrics for measuring operational sustainability in U.S. GA airports was identified. The new definition may help GA airports to develop sustainable management plans, and may help airports in other categories to expand their sustainability perspectives. The metrics identified in this study may be used to measure progress to the sustainable development, identify problems, and set performance goals or targets for airports.
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Váczi, Péter. "Regional significance of the Debrecen International Airport." Acta Agraria Debreceniensis, no. 51 (February 10, 2013): 187–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.34101/actaagrar/51/2088.
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In the following essay I would like to examine the Debrecen International Airport’s reginonal status, significance and development opportunities. Furthermore, I would like compare the passenger traffic of Debrecen’s airport with other regional airports in Middle-East Europe during the 2005–2012 period. In the second part of my essay, I would like to share the experience of my questionnaire survey and a possible future perspective for the Debrecen International Airport.
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Bilotkach, Volodymyr, and Harry Bush. "Airport competition from airports’ perspective: Evidence from a survey of European airports." Competition and Regulation in Network Industries 21, no. 3 (July 16, 2020): 275–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1783591720937876.
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In this study, we describe the results of a questionnaire distributed among European airports in the autumn of 2019. The questionnaire was designed to elicit airports’ views on the practicalities of competition between airports. We received 49 responses from airports in 24 countries; the respondents represent airports of different sizes. The survey results evidence behaviours consistent with significant competition between airports. Airports are taking active steps through their resourcing and staffing, incentives and marketing to attract airline services, and clearly see themselves taking the initiative in doing so. No airport, no matter how large, appears to be able to escape competition. The main policy message of our study, consistent with other recent reviews of airport competition, is that European regulators should re-evaluate their approach to the economic regulation of airports, especially as far as regional airports are concerned.
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Kona, Musri, and Rifqi Raza Bunahri. "Factors Influencing Airport Technology Development: Customer Convenience, Aviation Security, and Environmental Issues." Proceeding of International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Navigation, Engineering, and Aviation Technology (ICANEAT) 1, no. 1 (January 15, 2024): 96–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.61306/icaneat.v1i1.191.
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Technology development had introduced automation techniques in the airport operation and service system. Passengers also feel more comfortable choosing an airport which has equipped with technology. Therefore, many airports are becoming more enthusiastic about implementing new technologies because they can increase efficiency, reliability, and sustainability within their operations. This article then tried to explain several factors which are significantly influencing airport technology development. The method used by the authors was a qualitative method focusing on the literature review. The research result showed that there are three prominent factors influencing airport technology development. First, the customer convenience factor encourages airports to apply self-service technologies that are more flexible and efficient. Second, the aviation security factor creates body scanner technology to automatically scan the passengers and the liquid explosives detection system. Third, environmental issues can be looked at from the airport’s efforts to implement various energy-saving behaviors and utilize renewable energy sources. Moreover, there are also other factors influencing the airport technology development, namely price, rapidness, customer experience, customer value, risk minimization, and communication enhancem.
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Wei, Xiujie, Yinfeng Li, Ranran Shang, Chang Ruan, and Jingzhang Xing. "Airport Cluster Delay Prediction Based on TS-BiLSTM-Attention." Aerospace 10, no. 7 (June 22, 2023): 580. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/aerospace10070580.
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To conduct an accurate and reliable airport delay prediction will provide an important basis for the macro control of an airspace delay situation and the dynamic allocation of airspace system capacity balance. Accordingly, a method of delay prediction for target airports based on the spatio-temporal delay variables of adjacent airports is proposed in this paper. First, by combining the complex network theory, we first extract the topology of the airport network and create airport clusters with comparable network properties. Second, we develop the TS-BiLSTM-Attention mode to predict the delay per hour for airports in the cluster. As the spatio-temporal feature variables, the arrival delay of airport cluster-associated airports and the delay time series of landing airports are utilized to reach the conclusion. The experimental results indicate that the delay prediction predicated on clusters is superior to that based on data from a single airport. This demonstrates that the delay propagation law derived from cluster data based on spatio-temporal feature extraction can generalize the delay propagation characteristics of airports within clusters.
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Chen, Yijun, Zheng Wei, and Qi Zhou. "Assessing completeness of global airport data in OSM." Advances in Cartography and GIScience of the ICA 4 (August 7, 2023): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/ica-adv-4-3-2023.
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Abstract. Airports are not only important infrastructure for both civil and military use but also have significant impacts on socio-economic development and the built-up environment. OpenStreetMap (OSM) can be an essential data source for acquiring various airport elements, but few studies have investigated data quality. To fill this gap, this study aims to assess the quality (especially completeness) of airport data in OSM by comparing it with locations of airports acquired from the OurAirports platform. More precisely, the three different types (large, medium, and small) and the four different elements (runway, taxiway, apron, and terminal) of airports are assessed for over 40,000 airports worldwide. Results show that completeness varies depending on types, elements, and geographical regions. Specifically, 1) almost all large airports are complete; most medium airports are also complete; but most small airports are not complete. 2) The runway element is much more complete than the terminal element. 3) In most cases, completeness is relatively high in India, China, and Northern Africa but relatively low in Canada, the United States, Russia, and Australia, where the total number of airports is much larger. We conclude that most large and medium airports in OSM have been mapped well. The reasons for incomplete airport data in OSM and potential applications of OSM airport data are also discussed.
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Henderson, Isaac Levi, Kan Wai Hong Tsui, Thanh Ngo, Andrew Gilbey, and Mark Avis. "The Nature of Airport Brand Associations." Tourism and Hospitality 5, no. 3 (July 6, 2024): 592–624. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/tourhosp5030036.
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This study examines the nature of brand associations that air travellers form with airports and which associations are important when choosing between airports. Using semi-structured qualitative interviews, this study collected information about 240 participants’ most recent trips using air travel, encompassing 642 airport visits and 88 airports worldwide. The associations that participants made with the airports they travelled through were collected, as well as the sorts of associations that are important for choosing between airports and why those associations are important. The data were analysed using thematic analysis, revealing 13 themes each for airport brand associations and important associations for choosing between airports and 14 themes for reasons why those associations were important. Single-sample t-tests reveal that each of these themes has a different effect size in terms of its effect on airport brand association formation and its effect on attitudinal brand choice. This study contributes to the air transport and tourism literature by providing a detailed account of which associations air travellers form with airports and which are used for choosing between airports by contextualising these findings by viewing airports as compound brands. Managerial implications are also provided along with avenues for future research.
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Higgins, James, and Michael Maclean. "Technical Note — The Use of a Very Large Constructed Sub-Surface Flow Wetland to Treat Glycol-Contaminated Stormwater from Aircraft De-Icing Operations." Water Quality Research Journal 37, no. 4 (November 1, 2002): 785–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wqrj.2002.053.
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Abstract All of the pollutants found in stormwater runoff at airports, including surface and aircraft de-icing/anti-icing glycols, can be treated and removed to low levels in well-designed sub-surface flow (SSF) constructed wetland systems. There are two common forms of constructed wetlands used for pollution control: those where water flows over the surface among wetland plants (free water surface or marsh type wetlands); and SSF types where the wastewater flows below the normally dry surface of a gravel substrate in which the wetland plants grow. SSF wetlands have no open water to attract waterfowl and are particularly suitable for use at airports. Of the glycol used at Edmonton International Airport (EIA), 80 to 90% eventually entered surface runoff. Edmonton International Airport's operator, the Edmonton Regional Airports Authority (Edmonton Airports) evaluated a number of glycol management options, including constructed wetlands. As a result, a very large SSF wetland system was installed to handle glycol-contaminated stormwater. This paper reviews results of a feasibility study carried out to define design parameters and scale up kinetics for this wetland system, the detailed design that resulted, the SSF wetland's construction, and the start-up of the Edmonton facilities in August of 2000. It also compares the Edmonton wetland system with a similar facility at Heathrow Airport in the United Kingdom.
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Uzule, Kristine, and Irina Kuzmina-Merlino. "THE CONNECTION BETWEEN AN AIRPORT TYPE AND REVENUE STRUCTURE AT BALTIC STATES AIRPORTS." Aviation 26, no. 4 (November 28, 2022): 183–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/aviation.2022.17854.
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Airports are not only engines of transportation of passengers and cargo, but also commercial enterprises offering services far beyond transportation, which is why their revenues are formed by both aeronautical and non-aeronautical sales. Aeronautical revenues of some large European airports are higher than non-aeronautical revenues, whereas some regional and secondary European airports demonstrate the opposite trend. The aim of this research was to determine if there is a connection between an airport type and the ratio of aeronautical and non-aeronautical revenues at Baltic States airports in way that is consistent with the previous research. The aim was attained in three stages. The first, the definitions of the main and secondary airports were constructed via discourse analysis. The second, the structure of airport revenues of the selected Baltic States airports was analysed. The third, conclusions were made regarding a connection between an airport type and the revenue structure of these Baltic States airports. On the one hand, the research results suggested there might be a connection between an airport type and the revenue structure although this question requires further research, and on the other hand, the financial analysis showed that airports with a higher share of non-aeronautical revenues than aeronautical revenues were more resilient to crises.
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Lian, Jon Inge, and Joachim Rønnevik. "Airport competition – Regional airports losing ground to main airports." Journal of Transport Geography 19, no. 1 (January 2011): 85–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2009.12.004.
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Kang, Jiawei, Shangwen Yang, Xiaoxuan Shan, Jie Bao, and Zhao Yang. "Exploring Delay Propagation Causality in Various Airport Networks with Attention-Weighted Recurrent Graph Convolution Method." Aerospace 10, no. 5 (May 15, 2023): 453. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/aerospace10050453.
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Exploring the delay causality between airports and comparing the delay propagation patterns across different airport networks is critical to better understand delay propagation mechanisms and provide effective delay mitigation strategies. A novel attention-based recurrent graph convolutional neural network is proposed to identify the hidden delay causality relationship among airports in three different airport networks of China. The selected three airport networks show great heterogeneities in topological characteristics, such as average intensity, modularity and eigenvector centrality. The modeling results indicate that the identified delay causality networks of three airport networks are greatly varied in terms of complexity, delay propagation distance and efficiency. Moreover, the delay state of each airport is categorized into three levels, and the delay state transition of the three networks is explored. The results indicate that delay state transition in the North China Control Area exhibits an obvious bidirectional transition form that mainly propagates between the large-degree airports and small-degree airports, while severe delays of some hub airports account for a relatively large proportion in the other two networks. The results of this study could better reveal the delay propagation mechanism among airports and help airport operators develop effective strategies to alleviate flight delays and improve airport operation efficiency.
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HA, HUN-KOO, YUICHIRO YOSHIDA, and ANMING ZHANG. "Comparative Analysis of Efficiency for Major Northeast Asia Airports." Transportation Journal 49, no. 4 (2010): 9–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40904911.
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Abstract Growing airport capacity constraint, airports' increasing attention to profits, and regional hub formation in Northeast Asia suggest a need to study efficiency performance of the region's major airports. This article empirically evaluates the level and change of efficiency (productivity) of Tokyo (Narita), Osaka (Kansai), Seoul (Incheon and Gimpo), Beijing Capital, Shanghai Hongqiao, Guangzhou, and Hong Kong airports. We apply data envelopment analysis (DEA) to new panel data covering the 1994-2007 time period. We find that all the sample airports have recorded an increase in productivity over the period. Given the initial low productivity level of Chinese airports, this finding suggests that a series of deregulatory measures adopted by the Chinese government may have worked in improving airport productivity. On the other hand, no sample airports have experienced consistent growth in productivity. To improve productivity, the airports in Northeast Asia need not only technological revolutions at the industry level, but also technical improvements, such as better airport management, operations, and investment, at an airport level. Alternatively, the region may need to adopt more aggressive liberalization measures to stimulate further traffic growth. A number of future research areas are also discussed.
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HA, HUN-KOO, YUICHIRO YOSHIDA, and ANMING ZHANG. "Comparative Analysis of Efficiency for Major Northeast Asia Airports." Transportation Journal 49, no. 4 (2010): 9–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/transportationj.49.4.0009.
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Abstract Growing airport capacity constraint, airports' increasing attention to profits, and regional hub formation in Northeast Asia suggest a need to study efficiency performance of the region's major airports. This article empirically evaluates the level and change of efficiency (productivity) of Tokyo (Narita), Osaka (Kansai), Seoul (Incheon and Gimpo), Beijing Capital, Shanghai Hongqiao, Guangzhou, and Hong Kong airports. We apply data envelopment analysis (DEA) to new panel data covering the 1994-2007 time period. We find that all the sample airports have recorded an increase in productivity over the period. Given the initial low productivity level of Chinese airports, this finding suggests that a series of deregulatory measures adopted by the Chinese government may have worked in improving airport productivity. On the other hand, no sample airports have experienced consistent growth in productivity. To improve productivity, the airports in Northeast Asia need not only technological revolutions at the industry level, but also technical improvements, such as better airport management, operations, and investment, at an airport level. Alternatively, the region may need to adopt more aggressive liberalization measures to stimulate further traffic growth. A number of future research areas are also discussed.