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

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

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

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

We investigate the role of limited access to airport facilities as a determinant of the hub premium in the U.S. airline industry. We use original data from competition plans that airports are required to submit to the U.S. Department of Transportation in compliance with the Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the Twenty-First Century. We collect information on the availability and control of...

This paper analyzes airport congestion when carriers are nonatomistic, showing how the results of the road-pricing literature are modi ̄ed when the economic agents causing congestion have market power. The analysis shows that when an airport is dominated by a monopolist, either discriminating or nondiscriminating, congestion is fully internalized, provided that a separability assumption on trave...

Today one of the emerging issues in aviation is the assessment, control and reduction of air emissions. In particular airports are increasingly scrutinized for accountability of air emissions contributions to the local and regional air quality. The tasks associated with quantifying air emissions contributions are difficult due to the inconsistency of airport sizes, geographic locations, variabl...

Field measurements were conducted of potential sleep disturbance associated with changes in nighttime aircraft noise exposure near three airports. One study was conducted near Stapleton International Airport (DEN) and Denver International Airport (DIA) in anticipation of the closure of the former and opening of the latter. Sleep behavior was monitored in 57 homes located near runway ends at the...

The paper focusses on the use of wireless networks, with special emphasis on Wi-Fi, in the manoeuvering and apron areas of an airport to control the ground vehicles movements in those areas and, consequently, to improve user safety, efficiency of operations and airport security. The use of Wi-Fi for these purposes constitutes a novel approach in an airport environment. Other wireless networks, ...