This paper presents an analysis of the dynamics of evolution of multi-airport systems worldwide that can help to guide their effective development in the future. Given the capacity constraints on existing major airports, the development of multi-airport systems is going to be a key mechanism by which air transportation systems around the world will be able to meet future demand. In order to bet...

Our research examines the role of airports in regional development. Specifically, we examine two things: (1) the factors associated with whether or not a metro will have an airport, and (2) the effect of airport activities on regional economic development. Based on multiple regression analysis for U.S. metros, our research generates four key findings. First, airports are more likely to be locat...

This paper is concerned with the propagation of delays within a large network of major airports. As more airports in the United States and in Europe become more congested, it also becomes increasingly likely that delays at one or more airports will spread to other parts of the network. We describe an analytical queuing and network decomposition model developed to study this complex phenomenon. ...

According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the number of runway incursions are rising. The configuration of runways and taxiways at airports has been identified by the FAA as possibly being related to the number of incursions. In this paper, the relationship between airport geometry factors and the number of runway incursions at specific United States airports is explored using sta...

Aircraft taxiing on the surface contribute significantly to the fuel burn and emissions at airports. This paper is aimed at estimating the baseline fuel burn and emissions from taxi-out processes at airports, evaluating the potential benefits of strategies proposed to reduce them, and assessing the critical implementation barriers that need to be overcome prior to the adoption of these approach...

This paper empirically analyzes changes in the supply of non-stop intercontinental flights from European airports. We take advantage of OAG data for air services from a rich sample of European airports to intercontinental destinations in the period 20042008. Results of the empirical analysis indicate a tendency towards a more balanced distribution of intercontinental flights across European air...

Major airports in the United States typically have been individual entities, developed locally as self-sufficient enterprises. Only rarely have airport managers run systems of significant airports. Moreover, airports normally offer a broad range of products to all qualified clients. This local, allpurpose mode of operation is quite unusual for a competitive business. It is also inefficient and ...

Recent increases in the rates of biological invasion and spread of infectious diseases have been linked to the continued expansion of the worldwide airline transportation network (WAN). Here, the global structure of the WAN is analysed in terms of climatic similarity to illuminate the risk of deliberate or accidental movements of climatically sensitive organisms around the world. From over 44,0...

Airports for Agents (AA) is an implemented distributed multi-agent infrastructure designed for dynamic and unstable Internet environment. The infrastructure consists of platforms called Airports that enable agents to communicate together and to be persistent. Furthermore, the Airports allow agents to migrate trough the system and to use local resources. Any Airport can host any agent from the n...

This research develops and executes a methodology for creating generic airports for fleet-level noise modeling in support of a generic framework for rapid fleet-level environmental analysis to reduce model complexity and runtime. Generic airports are comprised of generic runways, consisting of operational characteristics, and generic infrastructures, consisting of geometric characteristics. Gro...