Public-Private Partnership (PPP) models are widely popular all over the world. China witnesses an extraordinarily economic growth and has used a great-amount PPP in transport infrastructure such as express railway, highway, municipal road so on. However, still immature airport due to its political, economic, legal environment. Although many researchers have investigated some reasons of this phe...

Many coastal cities have undertaken reclamation projects to satisfy the land demands of rapid urbanization. However, the foundations of reclaimed land are susceptible to settlement and can have undesirable environmental impacts that could adversely affect these dense, populated areas. In the case of international airports built on reclaimed areas especially, regional-scale deformation must be m...

Smart devices in combination with other digital tools have occupied the cities transforming citizens’ urban experience. People are connected any time and anywhere with their global identities changing their relation to the local. People live in glocalities, where the local and the global co-exists. Glocalities are unique and constantly changing in a lifelong-learning process in which the citize...

Abstract In overly congested airports requests for landing and take-off slots are allocated according to the IATA World Scheduling Guidelines (WSG). A central concept of these guidelines is prioritization satisfaction requested a hierarchy that recognizes historic usage rights slots. number criteria have been proposed in literature optimize airport slot allocation decisions. Multi-objective pro...

An extensive study on the presence of illicit drugs and pharmaceuticals with potential for abuse in sewage waters was made for the first time in the Netherlands. A total number of 24 target drugs were investigated in influent and effluent wastewater using liquid chromatography coupled to a high resolution Orbitrap mass spectrometer. This powerful analyzer has allowed not only the detection and ...

The strategic goal of Shanghai Airport is to build a perfect domestic and international route network, and construct the air gateway connecting the world with China. Shanghai Airport is speeding up the construction of information systems, and business intelligence is core of the airport decision support system. First, this paper discusses the application blueprint of business intelligence for S...

This paper provides new evidence on the link between airline tra±c and employment in a metro area. The evidence con ̄rms the common view that good airline service is an important factor in urban economic development. Frequent service to a variety of destinations, re°ected in a high level of passenger enplanements, facilitates easy face-to-face contact with businesses in other cities, attracting ...

We used the Bass model to investigate transmission dynamics of COVID-19 taking United States and China as examples. The was originated from business literature initially modeled process new products getting adopted by population with an external internal influence term. First, we fit cumulative number confirmed cases in 8 major cities model. parameters were calculated correlation analyses perfo...