This paper conducts an empirical analysis of the relationship between privatization and regulation drawing on data from a wide sample of European airports. We find that privatization promotes a shift from basic regulation to a situation of more detailed or non-regulation, depending on the specific characteristics of the privatization process and on the type of airport being privatized. Moreover...

Due to the rapid growth of air transport traffic, how to efficiently allocate gates at airports to incoming or outgoing flights has become one of the most important problems which managers of airlines and airports have to concern about. The problem, which can be modeled as a scheduling problem, is often referred to as flight gate scheduling. The main purpose of flight gate scheduling is to find...

This article deals with a new approach to the airport emergency plans, which are the basic documents and manuals for dealing with events with impact on safety or security. The article describes the identified parts in which the current airport emergency plans do not fulfill their role and which should therefore be considered in the creation of corrective measures. All these issues have been ide...

Introduction Providing more comfortable station environment foremost from the customer’s point of view is essential for sustaining railway customers. As the result of surveys regarding comfort and cleanliness of railway stations and airports, approximately 90% of customers answered that airports are more comfortable and cleaner than railway stations (Fig. 1). Customers also have shown a keen in...

This paper provides an overview of how the new economy and the Internet have and are likely to change the conduct of business. The Internet creates value on both sidesFon the demand side by allowing firms to customize to suit specific consumer needs and on the supply side by reducing costs. Our particular interest is in identifying opportunities for airports, which are almost an afterthought in...

Abstract Cascading failure phenomena can appear in complex networks that distribute flows of information, people or goods, when flow going through nodes edges exceeds the capacity network edges. models from previous research are not adequate for airport networks, as is continuous, and load has to be redistributed among close airports, rather than previously existing connections. With these cons...