Welcome to the second edition of Airport Systems Planning, Design, and Management! Recognizing the widespread adoption and worldwide use of the first edition (translated into two non-Roman scripts, Greek and Mandarin), we have thoroughly rewritten the text to make it as useful as possible to our readers. This new version deals with the major shifts in the airport/airline industry that have occurred in the past decade. It contains significant new material and is now thoroughly up-to-date. This book is about creating effective and efficient airports. To achieve this objective, professionals need to consider the whole problem, from the initial planning, through the design of the facilities, to the ultimate management and operation of the airport. The text uniquely integrates these phases, in contrast to other books that only deal with parts of the problem. Specifically, the book: Begins by setting the industry context that affects airport development; Follows with chapters on the systems aspects of airport development, such as dealing; with uncertainty in forecasts, the environment, and financing; Then deals with the airside issues (runway, airfield capacity, and delays) and the landside (design of terminals and airport access); And, ends with reference material supporting the overall text (such as forecasting, flows and queues, etc.). The text takes a worldwide perspective throughout. It thus serves both North American and international users. What Are Its Distinctive Themes? The book emphasizes helping the readers understand the issues. This is important. To deal with them effectively and efficiently, professionals need to appreciate how and why things work as they do. This is especially true because circumstances for airport development differ from place to place, and are constantly evolving. The book’s approach contrasts with other books that focus on current rules and formulas. The book also takes a systems approach. It recognizes that the different aspects of airport development affect each other. Designers should therefore not consider them in isolation. For example, efficient airport operations depend on thoughtful planning of the airfield and effective design of the terminal area. Likewise, good management of the facilities reduces the need for capacity and improves the planning process. The text uniquely provides an integrated approach to airport development. Motivation for Revision. The airport industry has evolved considerably in the decade since the 2003 edition. The airline demand for airport services has changed as major airlines have consolidated and the low-cost carriers have become major factors in the industry. Environmental regulations and international rules have greatly shifted emphasis. Airport technology has changed–new types of aircraft, satellite-based air traffic control, security controls, and information technology serving passengers and bags. Techniques and models for planning, designing, and managing airports have advanced considerably. New research results are available. Intended Audience: The book is for all those with a major interest in airport planning, design, and management. This includes owners and operators; architects and engineers; government officials; airlines, concessionaires, and other providers of airport services; travelers and shippers; and neighbors and communities, as well as members of the public. Readers need no specific experience or skills to use it. A serious interest in the topic is all that is required to make good use of the text. The authors recognize that most people become involved with airport planning, design, and management later in their careers and come from a broad range of professional backgrounds. The book has proven to be useful worldwide. It stresses universally applicable concepts and approaches to airport problems. It refers to several different sets of international and national standards on the airside and the landside and points out both similarities and differences in current airport practices around the globe. The text draws heavily on worldwide experience to bring out the best available approaches to each issue. The text assumes that readers need to deal with current issues in airport planning, design, and management. It focuses on the actual problems that arise, and on practical, effective ways of dealing with them. Theory and methodology appear only to the extent that they are relevant and useful. The authors have tried to illustrate theory and methods with appropriate examples wherever possible. The text is suitable for students in planning and design curricula. The authors have used the material that has led up to this book since around 1980, in both their courses at MIT (the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and professional short courses worldwide, “on every continent except Antarctica.” The Content The book concentrates on significant commercial airports, those with more than about 1 million passengers a year. It only considers smaller airports or military bases when they provide a region with significant current or prospective capacity to handle airline traffic. Likewise, it does not deal with special facilities such as heliports or seaplane bases. The text covers both the development and management aspects of airports. Systems design recognizes that the costs of building and operating a major facility such as an airport are comparable. Good planning and design thus makes sure that the physical configuration of a project facilitates operations and that the management procedures enable owners to avoid unnecessary capital costs. The text discusses in detail each of the major development topics: Airport site characteristics; The layout of runways, taxiways, and aircraft aprons; Design of passenger buildings and their internal systems, including security; Analysis of environmental impacts; Planning for ground access to the airport. It also treats the operational and managerial issues of the following: Air traffic control; Management of congestion and queues; The determination of peak-hour traffic; Environmental impacts; Financing, pricing, and demand management. Competition increasingly provides the context for commercial airports. The success of any airport depends most importantly on its advantages compared to other airports, now and as they may be in the future. The text thus carefully describes competition between airports, both within and between metropolitan areas, as well as in the context of airline networks operating nationally, internationally, and globally. It also discusses how international trends in the industry might change the competitive picture. Dynamic strategic planning is the approach used to bring these specific topics together. It is the modern method for designing complex systems over time. It builds upon the understanding that all forecasts are unreliable, uses the procedures of decision and options analysis of risky situations, and incorporates the economics of financing. The text covers these topics as needed. The overall object is to plan, design, and manage airports so that they can respond flexibly to the unknown, uncertain future conditions. Format The book should be easy to understand. It is free of unnecessary mathematical expressions or technical terms. Most of the material is easily accessible to the broad range of persons concerned with airport systems planning, design, and management: engineers and architects as well as managers who do not have a technical background. We have made the text easy to use by the many airport professionals who are neither engineers nor native speakers of English. The book features numerous examples illustrating the application of the concepts and methods. It draws upon actual cases from the authors’ worldwide experience. The emphasis throughout is on dealing effectively with real issues. A reference section presents basic theory and, in some cases, background mathematics. Persons who do not need this complementary material can skip this section. Users can combine this reference material with chapters on specific issues to meet their need for information on a particular topic. As the following User’s Guide describes, readers can tailor the material to their requirements.

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