Increasing number of air travellers in recent years and the emergence of multi-airport cities throughout the world has made the behaviour of travellers regarding the choice of the origin airport even more important. Analysis of this behaviour helps for a better future planning and development of competing airports as an important element of their demand prediction. In this paper, particular emp...

The globalization and the continuing growth of internet-based processes and services makes it necessary to examine the emerging user resistance phenomenon from a new theoretical perspective. In order to verify the user resistance’s core claims, we designed a research model and subsequently developed measurement instruments to empirically analyze and test why people reject or use a process in a ...

In applied research, noise annoyance is often used as indicator of subjective reaction to aircraft noise in residential areas. The present study aims to show that the meaning which respondents attach to the concept of aircraft noise annoyance is partly a function of survey context. To this purpose a survey is conducted among residents living near Schiphol Airport, the largest airport in the Net...

To provide quantitative evidence of the impact on people of a neighboring metropolitan airport, La Guardia Airport (LGA) in New York City, (1) airborne particulate matter (PM) was measured to determine whether concentration differences could be detected between homes that are upwind and downwind of the airport; (2) 24-hr noise measurements were made in 12 homes near the airport; and (3) the imp...

This paper discusses the results from the maintenance evaluation of Engineered Material Arresting System (EMAS) at three U.S. airports: Greenville Downtown Airport (GMU), SC, Roanoke Regional Airport (ROA), VA, and Burbank Airport (BUR), CA. EMAS is a softer ground aircraft arresting system approved by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to stop overrunning aircraft. In numerous occasions...

It is a fact that the most delays in the Air Transportation System (ATS) today occur on the airport. One reason for this is the large number of actors operating at the airport and the scarcity of communication between them and other parts of the ATS. Airport Logistics is a concept developed to survey all the flows of vehicles, people, material and information, which can be found on and around t...

Responding to a U.S. Federal court order to improve discharged wastewater quality, Augusta, Georgia initiated development of artificial wetlands in 1997 to treat effluents. Because of the proximity to Augusta Regional Airport at Bush Field, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration expressed concern for potential increased hazard to aircraft posed by birds attracted to these wetlands. We commenc...

The airport gate assignment problem (AGAP) is one of the most important problems operations managers face daily. Many researches have been done to solve this problem and tackle its complexity. The objective of the task is assigning each flight (aircraft) to an available gate while maximizing both conveniences to passengers and the operational efficiency of airport. This objective requires a sol...

a knowledge of rainfall distribution over a finite area is needed for small bydraulic structures design. hydrologists have always been concerned about depth- area- duration (dad) for a specific storm in a watershed. an intense storm occurred on june 6, 1992 which claimed some lives in parts of mashhad, khorasan province, iran. data of rainfall depth at 29 raingauge stations around the city and ...

Terrain and obstacle detection is very important for the safety of aircraft operation. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) issued the requirements for electronic Terrain and Obstacle Data (eTOD) in 2004. The requirements request all countries to finish the survey of eTOD around large airports by 2010. Nevertheless, no traditional surveying approaches satisfy the required precis...