ensuring the security in civil aviation - as a primary factor in economical and industrial development - is the major concern of international community. pursuant to the serious challenges in this sector after terrorist events of 11 september 2001 in the united states, international civil aviation organization (icao) as the most important organization relating to the international civil aviatio...

• The history of aviation beginning with the first drawings and flying items goes back to the fifteenth century. • The aviation industry has grown to a remarkable size over the centuries and is one of the important industries of economic growth today. • The aviation industry is structured along the aviation value chain. • Air transport is characterised by high fixed costs, low profit margins in...

1 Introduction 7 2 How fast is the aviation industry growing? 8 3 Noise pollution 11 4 Local air pollution 14 5 The impact of aviation on global warming and climate change 18 6 Is aviation and airport development good for the economy? 23 PART 2: A new aviation policy 7 A new aviation policy based on transport demand management 27 Summary of part 1: The impact of aviation on the environment 35 S...

The Future Aviation Safety Team (FAST) is a multidisciplinary international group of aviation professionals that was established to identify possible future aviation safety hazards. The principle was adopted that future hazards are undesirable consequences of changes, and a primary activity of FAST became identification and prioritization of possible future changes affecting aviation. Since 200...

While the issue of civil aviation safety has attracted serious public concern, notably few studies have investigated civil aviation safety efficiency. In this paper, a definition of civil aviation safety efficiency is proposed for the first time. Inputs to the proposed civil aviation safety efficiency model are labor, capital, fund and technology. The outputs are the percent of the passenger tu...

The purpose of the study was to evaluate the status of women's participation in full-time, non-engineering aviation baccalaureate programs in the United States. In addition, the involvement of women in academic aviation leadership positions (such as chair, dean, or director) was evaluated. Of 353 full-time aviation faculty members employed at 60 different aviation programs meeting the study'S c...