Airport Systems

"This is a definitive resource on the planning, design, and management of airports. The de Neufville/Odoni airports text is the most comprehensive of its kind. The book will serve as a valuable companion to students of aviation and airport management, thanks to an effective mix of conceptual discussion, real-world examples, and graphic illustrations. Students will appreciate the book as a one-stop shop for airport issues, introducing readers to a wide variety of commercial and policy topics facing airport operators, tenants, and communities". - Carol Hallett, President and CEO, Air Transport Association. ""Airport Systems" will become the definitive text on airport design for the first part of the 21st century". - Prof. Robert Caves, University of Loughborough, England."I consider Dr. Odoni and Dr. de Neufville to be among the foremost thinkers in the airport planning and systems analysis field...I particularly admire their ability to comprehend the implications of complex airport issues, to develop workable solutions, and to explain these solutions in understandable terms to practitioners and politicians". - Dr.Lloyd McCoomb, Vice-President, Planning and Development, Greater Toronto, Airport Authority. "Two of the most influential professors of airport planning have drawn their vast experience to produce the authoritative text on the complex topic of airport systems. Their lively style and valuable insights make this essential reading for those who would understand and guide the future development of air transportation. The content spans a wide range from the fundamental principles of transportation systems to the details of airport design. Whether your interest is in public policy, planning, design, or management, this book is a critical and up-to-date reference for your activities". - Larry Kiernan, Senior Airport Planner, Retired, U.S. Federal Aviation Administration.

ISBN 0071384774   Pages 883 ISBN13 9780071384773 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher McGraw-Hill Education - Europe   Weight (grammes) 1341 Imprint McGraw-Hill Professional   Published in London Format Hardback   Series title Aviation Week Book Publication date 01 Nov 2002   Height (mm) 236 Library of Congress 2002028399   Width (mm) 160 DEWEY 387.736   Spine width (mm) 50 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level Professional / Scholarly

		Preface
		Acknowledgments
		User's Guide
Pt. 1		Introduction		1
1		The future of the airport and airline industry		3
2		International differences		29
Pt. 2		System planning		57
3		Dynamic strategic planning		59
4		Privatization and deregulation		93
5		Multi-airport systems		129
6		Environmental impacts		167
7		Organization and financing		215
8		User charges		251
Pt. 3		The airside		293
9		Airfield design		295
10		Airfield capacity		367
11		Airfield delay		435
12		Demand management		461
13		Air traffic management		499
Pt. 4		The landside		557
14		Configuration of passenger buildings		559
15		Overall design of passenger buildings		605
16		Detailed design of passenger buildings		655
17		Ground access and distribution		693
Pt. 5		Reference material		739
18		Data validation		741
19		Models of airport operations		747
20		Forecasting		765
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Review by Ashraf Jan Professors de Neufville and Odani use real world examples to convincingly show the context for airport planning and design is changing fundamentally. No longer limited to technical aspects in the 21st Century, airport planners and designers should cultivate new and critical thinking on such issues as profitability, revenues, and user services. The authors have taught airport system planning both at MIT and to airport professionals for a quarter century. Both have served as consultants to airports and civil aviation organizations, worldwide. From this extensive experience, they provide excellent guidance to a wide audience. FAA Advisory Circulars and ICAO Design Manuals contain general airport planning and design standards. The thrust of the authors' approach is that the new context for airport system planning is commercial, no longer limited to narrow technical aspects. Influences such as airline deregulation, airport and airline privatization, a global airport industry, and advanced technology (electronic commerce in particular) require this new approach. The framework more widely concentrates on costs and revenues, stochastic traffic and risks, and operations and management. The authors focus on large and medium size commercial airports. They write in simple language, devoid of intimidating technical jargons. Airports, worldwide, are used as examples and case studies to clarify the analysis. The authors served as consultants at many of the airports used as examples. For those interested in forecasting and simulation models and traffic flows and queuing, there is a separate "reference material." To consultant planners in airport planning and design firms and to those in public aviation organizations, the book provides a wealth of knowledge on all aspects of airport planning, design, and management. It encourages cultivating a new way of thinking about the issues, to avoid costly and embarrassing mistakes. The book gives valuable guidance to city and regional planners for making informed, rational decisions regarding fiscal and environmental implications of airport development projects in their communities. The System Planning section presents an insightful discussion of airport master planning, multi airport system, and strategic planning processes. Planners have been part of these programs, funded by the FAA, since the early 1970s. The section points out the reactionary and inflexible features of master plans with a static vision of the future. It cautions planners and managers that strategic planning as practiced in business has also fallen out of favor. Planners and managers will find the lively discussion on shortcomings of forecasts, a valuable eye-opener. It documents that "forecasts are always wrong and unreliable"; therefore, plans based on wrong forecasts also will be wrong. The economically inefficient and premature over development of Paris/de Gaulle, London/Stansted, New York/Newark, and Washington/Dulles are cited as examples. Because planners must deal with forecasting in all spheres of their activities, they will find this discourse insightful. The authors recommend "dynamic strategic planning" as an alternative. It represents a new vision for airport planning in the current environment where privatized airlines compete in a deregulated environment, and privatized airports respond proactively to perceived opportunities and threats. The basic approach is that airport operators must dynamically adjust their planning programs over time to accommodate a variety of future scenarios. Examples of airlines' decisions to shift their bases in the deregulated environment illustrate the implications for infrastructure planning and economic effects on airport operators. The chapter on Airfield Design points out the common mistakes, including: failure to provide flexibility, overbuilding in early stages of airport operations, adopting a non- integrating approach among the various airport elements, and in

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