Airport Organizations are faced with the increasingly complex task of integrating facility development projects with operational airport systems. Computer network systems present promising opportunities for meeting this challenge. The goal of improving the integration of airport systems is similar to the goal of computerintegrated construction in the Architectural, Engineering, Construction and...

Lester B. Pearson – Toronto International Airport is undertaking a $4.4B development program comprising a new 390,000 sq. m. terminal building (replacing two aging terminals), three new runways, cargo facilities, a central utilities plant, and an expanded road system and parking facilities. This activity is proceeding while the airport continues to operate and while requirements evolve in respo...

This paper describes an intelligent communication and decision support system for providing wireless services in an airport environment. A novel agent-based business model is proposed and the value chain is analysed for wireless applications. This system is studied and developed within the scope of the IST ADAMANT project, where the Athens International Airport (AIA) is used as the trial enviro...

The French Aeronautics and Space Research Center (ONERA) launched in 1998 a federative R&D project on the airport of the future. A critical step of this project is to design an airport modeling and simulation infrastructure aiming at experimenting and validating some solutions to maintain an average level of aircraft movements whatever the weather conditions are. The infrastructure is currently...

Passengers’ experience is becoming a key metric to evaluate the air transportation system’s performance. Efficient and robust tools to handle airport operations are needed along with a better understanding of passengers’ interests and concerns. Among various airport operations, this paper studies airport gate scheduling for improved passengers’ experience. Three objectives accounting for passen...

We investigate the use of an Agent-based framework to identify and quantify the relationship between security and efficiency within airport terminals. In this framework, we define a novel Security Risk Assessment methodology that explicitly models attacker and defender behavior in a security scenario. It produces a security risk vector, quantifying the risks to the airport terminal. Efficiency ...

Airport profit games are a generalization of airport cost games as well as of bankruptcy games. In this paper we present a simple algorithm to compute the nucleolus of airport profit games. In addition we prove that there exists an unique consistent allocation rule in airport profit problems, and it coincides with the nucleolus of the associated TU game. ∗We acknowledge the advice from Peter Su...

OBJECTIVE To examine the effectiveness of airport screening in New South Wales during pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Analysis of data collected at clinics held at Sydney Airport, and of all notified cases of influenza A(H1N1)pdm09, between 28 April 2009 and 18 June 2009. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Case detection rate per 100,000 passengers screened, sensitivity,...

As major airports in the United States have reached their maximum capacity and became congested, available capacity at surrounding airports has been utilized by the emergence of secondary airports. Given the expectation of a larger number of operations in the National Airspace System (NAS) in the upcoming years, this trend of secondary airports emergence is likely to strengthen. In order to und...

Airport Strategic Planning (ASP) focuses on the development of plans for the long-term development of an airport. The dominant approach for ASP is Airport Master Planning (AMP). The goal of AMP is to provide a detailed blueprint for how the airport should look in the future, and how it can get there. Since a Master Plan is a static detailed blueprint based on specific assumptions about the futu...