Syllabus For The Subject Planning & Design of Airports

 

PLANNING & DESIGN OF AIRPORTS

Preface

1 The structures and organization of air transport

The need for national and international organizations

The international civil aviation organization

Nongovernmental organizations

U.S governmental organizations

Aviation planning and regulation at state level

Patterns of airport ownership

Revenues and expenditures at U.S airports

Sources of capital financing for U.S airports

Federal financing

The U.S national plan of integrated airport systems: A classification

Of airports

References

2 Forecasting air transport demand

Introduction

Components of air transport demand

Conventional airport forecast methods

Integrated demand forecast framework

Multiairport region forecast framework

Air trip distribution models

Model choice models

Generation-distribution models

Air freight demand forecasts

General aviation forecasts

Route choice models

References

 

3 Characteristics of aircraft as they affect airports

Relationships of aircraft and airports

The influence of aircraft design on runway length

Other airport layout layout factors

Factors affecting airport capacity

Noise

Future trends in aircraft design

References

  Contents

4 Airport system planning

Aviation system planning

Levels of planning

Planning airport systems under different states of industry

Effect of airline hubs and deregulation on U.S airport system

Air transport planning in the united states

Airport system planning in Europe

Airport system plan analysis

Data structure for airport system planning

References

5 Airport master planning

Airport master plan: definition and objectives

Hierarchy of planning

Elements of airport master plan:FAA

ICAO guidelines for structures of master planning

Structure of master plan report

Airport site selection

References

6 CNS/TAM

Evaluation of the system

U.S national airspace system (NAS)

CNS/ATM of the NAS

Next-generation systems

References

7 Airport capacity

Introduction

Capacity, level of service, and  demand peaking

Airside capacity

Factors affecting airside capacity and delay

Determination of runway capacity and delay

Annual service volume

Preliminary capacity analyses

Calculating aircraft delay

Taxiway capacity

Assessing system capacity-delay for airport development

Airport landside capacity

References

8 Airside configuration and geometric design of the airside

Introduction

Principles of airport layout

Airfield configuration

Runway orientation

Obstructions to airspace: FAA and ICAO standards

Runway length

Clearways and stop ways

ICAO reference code

Separation of parallel runways

Runway and taxiway cross section

Object-clearing criteria

Longitudinal-grade design for runways and stopways

Longitudinal-grade design for taxiways   

 Taxiway design

Holding aprons

Terminal aprons

Summary

References

9 safeguarding the airport

Airport safety

Airport security

Airport emergency planning

Planning for airport security

Safeguarding the airspace

References

 

10 Passenger terminals

Function of airport passenger terminal

Terminal user

Facilities required at passenger terminal

Passenger and baggage flow

Security considerations in passenger terminal design and layout

Terminal design concepts

Vertical distribution of activities

Passenger behavior in terminal

Importance of passenger terminal expenditures

Space requirements for individual facilities

Baggage handing

Terminals for low-cost carriers

Expandability , modularity ,and flexibility

Number of aircraft gates

Parking configurations and apron layout

Apron facilities and requirements

References

11 Air cargo facilities

Importance of air cargo

Functions of cargo terminal

Factors affecting size and form of cargo terminal

Flow through airport cargo terminal

Pallets, containers, igloos, and other unitized systems

 Freight-carrying aircraft

Documentation and control

Apron cargo handling

Elements to be considered in design of air freight terminals

Example of design of middle-technology freight terminal

Design of highly mechanized cargo terminal with container stacks and ETV

Mail and express parcels facilities

Conclusion

References

12 Airport drainage and pavement design

Airport drainage

Introduction

Estimation of runoff

Collection and disposal of runoff

Subsurface drainage

Structural pavement design

Introduction

Flexble-pavement design methods

Rigid-pavement design methods

Pavements for light aircraft

Aircraft and pavement classification numbers

References 

13 airport access

Access problem

Determining mix of access modes

Available access modes

Access model choice models

Parking space at airports

Curbfront design

Capacity of access routes

Layout of access

Summary

References

14 Heliports, STOL ports and vertiports

Introduction

Helicopter characteristics and trends

Planning and design of heliports

Planning and design of STOL Lports

Planning and design of STOL facilities

Planning and design of vertiports

References

15 Airport modeling and simulation

Introduction

Definition and concepts

Airport simulation

Environmental simulation models

Airport-landside simulation

Airport GIS

References    

16 Airport city

Introduction

Global city

Building blocks of airport city

Anatomy of aerotropolis

Airport cities of the world

Planning of airport city and aerotropolis

References

 

17 Environmental  impacts of airports

Introduction

Environmental legislation

Airport environmental guidance

Environmental review process

Air emissions quality

Biodiversity and natural resources

Historic ,archaeological, architectural and cultural resources

Noise and land use

Social and socioeconomic resources

Waste management

Water resources

Sustainable development

References   

 

 

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