Sustainable and efficient development is one of the most critical challenges facing modern society if it wants to save the world for future generations. Airports are an integral part of human activity. They need to be adapted to meet current and futu...
In the airport pavement management systems (APMSs), a focus point is the decision-making process. It enables finding the optimal strategy for maintaining a flight infrastructure in adequate condition over a given period, while considering the operati...
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has taken measures to improve safety, reduce costs, increase resilience, and improve the sustainability of the United States (U.S.) airfield infrastructure by using a life-cycle cost analysis methodology to i...
Recently, the new Green Deal policy initiative was presented by the European Union. The EU aims to achieve a sustainable future and be the first climate-neutral continent by 2050. It targets all of the continent’s industries, meaning aviation must co...
This study is about multicriteria decision aiding (MCDA) for the green airports program of the Moroccan Airport Authority ONDA. The goal of the program is to develop significant amounts of renewable power at airports. In particular, ONDA wants to sel...
In today’s world, air transport has become a favored choice for enhancing the value of a national economy, driven by advancing technology, escalating volumes of national and international trade, and population growth. The proliferation of airpo...
Sustainable design in large-scale infrastructure projects, such as airports, is crucial for minimizing environmental impacts while ensuring long-term financial feasibility. This study focuses on selecting the most sustainable pavement solution for ai...
Airports are located at the core of the production process, but can they also be where the “revolutionary subject” is hidden? We know what airports stand for nowadays, but have we pushed for what they could possibly stand for? Can airport...
In a context of growing saturation at Madrid–Barajas Airport and renewed debate on a second airport for the metropolitan region, this study proposes a GIS-based multicriteria evaluation (MCE) model to identify alternative locations from a terri...
Airport pavements deteriorate with age due to the impacts of environmental factors and air traffic. There is a dearth of studies on the scheduling of airport pavement maintenance and the importance of assessing the different scheduling strategies usi...
Value-based decision making is the consideration of function and cost in the decision to select the highest possible option. Reviews to previous studies showed that there is a lack of consideration of the criteria of value in the decision-making proc...
In the effort to combat climate change, the CO2 emissions of the aviation sector must be reduced. The traffic caused by numerous types of ground vehicles on airport aprons currently contributes to those emissions as the vehicles typically operate wit...
Beijing Capital International Airport (BCIA) has suffered from uneven land subsidence since 1935, which affects the smoothness of airport runways and seriously threatens the safety of aircrafts. In this paper, a spaceborne interferometric synthetic a...
As important nodes in the air transport system, it is of great significance for airports to achieve the carbon-peaking goal before 2030 under the target of peaking carbon emissions in China’s civil aviation industry. However, it remains unknown...
Airport terminals worldwide generate approximately 6 million tons of passenger waste annually. Increased awareness of climate change and global interventions for environmental sustainability requires a reassessment of airports’ current methods...
The increasing need for dynamic in-flight adjustments of a trajectory allows the airport, air traffic control and the airline a high degree of flexibility in terms of in-flight execution. This concept enables numerous optimisation options to jointly...
Predicting flight delays has been a major research topic in the past few decades. Various machine learning algorithms have been used to predict flight delays in short-range horizons (e.g., a few hours or days prior to operation). Airlines have to dev...
Green hydrogen will play a crucial role in the future of emission reduction in air traffic in the long-term, as it will completely eliminate CO2 emissions and significantly reduce other pollutants such as contrails and nitrogen oxides. Hydrogen offer...
The rapid emergence of automation brings new opportunities for airport development. Airports strive to maximize passenger satisfaction as well as optimize their operation. However, the lack of knowledge of consumer preferences might be an important b...
This study aims to determine the impact of the International Civil Aviation Organization’s (ICAO) taxiway system development stages on runway capacity and delays in a single-runway airport that serves mixed operations by using a combined approa...
Accurate forecasting of passenger checked baggage traffic is crucial for efficient and intelligent allocation and optimization of airport service resources. A systematic analysis of the influencing factors and prediction algorithms for the baggage fl...
Noise is the number two environmental health risk in Europe. With the majority of the world’s inhabitants residing in ever-growing cities, urban noise impacts an increasing number of people. Urban airports significantly contribute to urban nois...
Demand models allow to estimate the choices made by users on different alternatives. Demand models depend on the characteristic attributes of the users and transport networks, as well as on parameters. Their significance translates into the reliabili...
Quantum game theory merges principles from quantum mechanics with game theory, exploring how quantum phenomena such as superposition and entanglement can influence strategic decision making. It offers a novel approach to analyzing and optimizing comp...
In this study, the association of large pressure fluctuations (LPFs) ≥ 0.2 hPa and runway wind shear (RWS) ≥ 12 kt at the Songshan Airport in Taipei, Taiwan, during the event on 12 December 2019 with strong northeasterly winds are analyzed. The...
Traditional methods for monitoring the foundation settlement of airport runways predominantly employ equipment such as leveling instruments, total stations, layered settlement instruments, magnetic ring settlement instruments, ground-penetrating rada...
Many problems that are encountered in regards to water balance and resources management are related to challenges of economic development under limited resources and tough competition among various water uses. The development of major infrastructure...
Transportation systems require many challenges in providing seamless door-to-door mobility. The main initiatives are encouraging a shift from private to other transport modes by providing a fully integrated multimodal service in which the coordinatio...
Aviation noise remains a key barrier to the sustainable growth of commercial aviation. The advent of emerging technologies, such as urban air mobility, and the renewed interest in commercial supersonic transport aircraft, has only further raised conc...
Future aircraft designs with a wide range of performance parameters, such as electric and supersonic aircraft, will have to be accommodated in traditional airspace designs in the future. Allowing an individual optimization of traditional approach spe...
Pilots commonly undergo training to effectively manage instances of wind shear (WS) during both the landing and takeoff stages. Nevertheless, in exceptional circumstances, there may be instances of severe wind shear (SWS) surpassing a magnitude of 30...
Concrete structures such as rigid pavements, tunnels, and runways at airports are usually subject to fatigue traffic loading during their service life. Research on the aftereffects of drying–wetting cycles coupled with alternating loads on conc...
Due to the increasing need for a more sustainable environment, the study of waste management strategies is increasing worldwide. Pneumatic urban waste collection is an alternative to the conventional truck collection, especially in urban areas, where...
The close proximity of crosswinds to airport runways presents great hazards to landing operations. As a result, an aircraft is susceptible to encountering a loss of control. Elevated levels of turbulence are commonly linked with strong crosswind spee...
The accurate prediction of atmospheric low-visibility events due to fog, haze or atmospheric pollution is an extremely important problem, with major consequences for transportation systems, and with alternative applications in agriculture, forest eco...
Aviation is of crucial importance for the transportation sector and fundamental for the economy as it facilitates trade and private travel. Nonetheless, this sector is responsible for a great amount of global carbon dioxide emissions, exceeding 920 m...
Emergencies can occur unexpectedly and require immediate action, especially in aviation, where time pressure and uncertainty are high. This study focused on improving emergency evacuation in airport and aircraft scenarios using real-time decision-mak...
Helium is the second most abundant element in the Universe after hydrogen. Considerable resources of helium-3 isotope (He3) are located mostly outside the Earth. He3 is very important for science and industry, especially for airport neutron detectors...
This study explores the use of electronic countermeasures to disrupt communications systems in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), focusing on the protection of airspaces and critical infrastructures such as airports and power stations. The research aim...
Bird strikes are a substantial aviation safety issue that can result in serious harm to aircraft components and even passenger deaths. In response to this increased tendency, the implementation of new and more efficient detection and prevention techn...
In today’s dynamic and highly uncertain environment, organizations, particularly in the aviation sector, face increasing challenges that demand resilient, flexible, and data-driven change management decisions. Responding to the growing need for...
The impact of aircraft on airport pavements is varied and closely related to their operational durability. The article presents the impact of the annealing process related to the forced impact of airplanes on airport pavements. The composition of cem...
Under the challenge of climate change, fuel-based vehicles have been receiving increasingly harsh criticism. To promote the use of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) as an alternative, many researchers have studied the deployment of BEVs. This paper pr...
Competitive price pressure and economic cost pressure constantly force airlines to improve their optimization strategies. Besides predictable operational costs, delay costs are a significant cost driver for airlines. Especially reactionary delay cost...
Some meteorological phenomena in South America develop quickly and take on large dimensions. These phenomena cause disasters for aviation, such as incidents and accidents. Mesoscale convective complexes (MCCs) forced a commercial airplane into an eme...
Synthetic fuels play an important role in the defossilization of future aviation transport. To reduce the ecological impact of remote airports due to the long-range transportation of kerosene, decentralized on-site production of synthetic paraffinic...
Electric vehicles have emerged as one of the top environmentally friendly alternatives to traditional internal combustion engine vehicles. The development of a comprehensive charging infrastructure, particularly determining the optimal locations for...
Advancements in aviation technology have made intelligent navigation systems essential for improving flight safety and efficiency, particularly in low-visibility conditions. Radar and GPS systems face limitations in bad weather, making visible–...
Decision support systems are designed to provide decision makers with a view of the present and the future under alternative scenarios. A decision support system is different from a dashboard application representing current conditions and trends usi...
Over the last few years, a large number of studies have been conducted on the monitoring of human behavior remaining beyond conscious control. One area of application for such monitoring systems is lie detection. The most popular method currently use...
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