The main objective of integrating Web GIS in airport emergency response should be to provide the most appropriate geospatial information to all participants. Airport emergency response still needs a model that will explain its complexity: its participants, their tasks and information needs. This paper presents the UML model of airport emergency response. Such a model facilitates a common unders...

Airport layout planning is a highly complex discipline which requires much forethought, as inadequate or suboptimal solutions could be both dangerous and costly. However, designing a good airport requires compromises between the requirements of all stakeholders involved, ranging from aviation authorities and airlines to passengers and nearby residents. This is a highly delicate issue as evidenc...

Before the opening of the new Munich International Airport and the termination of the old airport, children near both sites were recruited into aircraft-noise groups (aircraft noise at present or pending) and control groups with no aircraft noise (closely matched for socioeconomic status). A total of 326 children (mean age = 10.4 years) took part in three data-collection waves, one before and t...

With the slogan, “Leading the World in IT Airport Applications e-Airport”, an experimental service was recently conducted at Japan's gateway to the world, the New Tokyo International Airport (hereinafter referred to as “Narita Airport”), to provide on the day flight information about aircraft arriving and departing, as well as railroad access information, which was accessible using a mobile pho...

This paper derives the navigation system performance requirements for the guidance function under zero visibility conditions of an Advanced Surface Movement Guidance and Control System (ASMGCS), taking as basis the airport design requirements. The stringency of these requirements suggests that code-based Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) in stand-alone mode or augmented by Spaceor Grou...

Background: Airport workers are continuously exposed to different levels of radiofrequency microwave (RF/MW) radiation emitted by radar equipments. Radars are extensively used in military and aviation industries. Over the past several years, our lab has focused on the health effects of exposure to different sources of electromagnetic fields such as cellular phones, mobile base stations, mobile ...

We investigate the traffic flows of the Korean highway system, which contains both public and private transportation information. We find that the traffic flow Tij between city i and j forms a gravity model, the metaphor of physical gravity as described in Newton’s law of gravity, PiPj/r 2 ij , where Pi represents the population of city i and rij the distance between cities i and j. It is also ...

Because airports are currently a bottleneck in the ATM system research and development effort is spent in creating high performing airport operations. In order to actively influence airport performance, joint decisions made in an Airport Operations Control Center (APOC) are proposed. This idea raises several research questions; one is in how far guidelines for a structured communication process...

Surface congestion management has received increased attention worldwide, largely due to its potential to mitigate operational inefficiencies and environmental impact. Most prior efforts have focused on demonstrations of a proposed congestion management approach at a particular airport, and not on the adaptation of a particular approach to a range of airport operating environments. This paper p...

background: airport workers are continuously exposed to different levels of radiofrequency microwave (rf/mw) radiation emitted by radar equipments. radars are extensively used in military and aviation industries. over the past several years, our lab has focused on the health effects of exposure to different sources of electromagnetic fields such as cellular phones, mobile base stations, mobile ...