Due to air traffic growth and especially hubs development, major European airports can easily become bottlenecks in the global air transportation network. Therefore, accurate models of airport traffic prediction become more and more necessary for ground controllers. In this paper, a ground traffic simulation tool is proposed and applied to Roissy Charles De Gaulle airport. Two global optimizati...

The invasion of the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti at Narita International Airport, Japan was detected for the first time. During the course of routine vector surveillance at Narita International Airport, 27 Ae. aegypti adults emerged from larvae and pupae collected from a single larvitrap placed near No. 88 spot at passenger terminal 2 on August 8, 2012. After the appearance of Ae. aegypt...

Correspondence Jin-Woo Park, Air Transport Research Division, The Korea Transport Institute, Goyong-City, South Korea. E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] This article investigates how in-flight service, reservation and ticketing, airport service, reliability, employee service, flight availability, passenger satisfaction, pricing (value), and airline image determine passengers’ future be...

The raison d'etre of the Airline Passenger Transportation System (APTS) is the rapid, affordable, and safe transportation of passengers (and cargo). Traditional APTS performance metrics, such as flight delays and cancellation rates, fail to account for the delays to passenger trips caused by cancelled flights, missed connections and diversions. Previous research estimated Passenger Trip Delays ...

OBJECTIVE The history and etiology of airline passenger misconduct are discussed and relevant medico-legal and management implications reviewed. METHOD The medical literature was reviewed and supplemented with internet searches for relevant information. Organizations including the Federal Aviation Administration, International Air Transport Association, Transportation Safety Board of Canada, ...

The raison d’etre for the air transportation system is the movement of passengers and cargo. Consumer information for airline passengers and regulatory consumer protection of airline services provide measures of performance using the percentage of on-time flights, and the percentage of cancelled flights. Researchers have shown that these “flight-based” metrics are a poor proxy for measuring the...

The purpose of the Air Transportation System (ATS) is to provide safe and efficient transportation of passengers and cargo. The on-time performance of the ATS is measured by flight-based metrics such as flight delays and flight cancellations. Researchers have shown that flight-based metrics do not accurately reflect the passenger trip experience, and especially underestimate the impacts of canc...

Network transportation systems exhibit complex relationships between delays on individual transportation segments and between the factors that cause delays. Researches have shown that these delays are an inherently stochastic phenomenon that is difficult to predict with certainty, even from micro-level aircraft information. This paper describes a stochastic Bayesian Network model to analyze the...

This paper investigates and compares airport pricing policies under various types of competition, considering both per-passenger and per-flight charges at congested airports. We show that an airport requires both pricing instruments to achieve the first-best outcome, and we distinguish their role by showing that congestion externalities need to be addressed through per-flight tolls whereas the ...