Airport Engineering

Preface.
 
1 The Structure and Organization of Air Transport.
 
1.1 The Need for National and International Organizations.
 
1.2 The International Civil Aviation Organization.
 
1.3 Nongovernmental Organizations.
 
1.4 U.S. Governmental Organizations.
 
1.5 Aviation Planning and Regulation at State Level.
 
1.6 Patterns of Airport Ownership.
 
1.7 Revenues and Expenditures at U.S. Airports.
 
1.8 Sources of Capital Financing for U.S. Airports.
 
1.9 Federal Financing.
 
1.10 The U.S. National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems: A Classification of Airports.
 
2 Forecasting Air Transport Demand.
 
2.1 Introduction.
 
2.2 Components of Air Transport Demand.
 
2.3 Conventional Airport Forecast Methods.
 
2.4 Integrated Demand Forecast Framework.
 
2.5 Multiairport Region Forecast Framework.
 
2.6 Air Trip Distribution Models.
 
2.7 Modal Choice Models.
 
2.8 Generation-Distribution Models.
 
2.9 Air Freight Demand Forecasts.
 
2.10 General Aviation Forecasts.
 
2.11 Route Choice Models.
 
3 Characteristics of Aircraft As They Affect Airports.
 
3.1 Relationships between Aircraft and Airports.
 
3.2 The Influence of Aircraft Design on Runway Length.
 
3.3 Other Airport Layout Factors.
 
3.4 Factors Affecting Airport Capacity.
 
3.5 Noise.
 
3.6 Future Trends in Aircraft Design.
 
4 Airport System Planning.
 
4.1 Aviation System Planning.
 
4.2 Levels of Planning.
 
4.3 Planning Airport Systems under Different States of Industry.
 
4.4 Effect of Airline Hubs and Deregulation on U.S. Airport System.
 
4.5 Air Transport Planning in the United States.
 
4.6 Airport System Planning in Europe.
 
4.7 Airport System Plan Analysis.
 
4.8 Data Structure for Airport System Planning.
 
5 Airport Master

Norman J. Ashford is Professor Emeritus at Loughborough University of Technology in the UK. He has taught at Georgia Institute of Technology and Florida State University in the United States. He was editor of numerous professional journals and has published over 130 articles in various professional and research publications. The author of four multi-edition books, he currently serves as the Managing Director of his own aviation consulting company, which has worked on over 100 airports in over forty-three countries.
 
Saleh A. Mumayiz is an international consultant in airport planning and development for more than twenty-five years, serving with leading corporations in this field. He served in academic research and continuing education roles in leading U.S. universities. As an active participant in professional (ASCE) and research (TRB) organizations for more than twenty years, he served as chair and member of various TRB and ASCE committees, authoring papers and organizing conferences, workshops, and seminars.
 
Paul H. Wright is Professor Emeritus at Georgia Institute of Technology. He has been active in continuing education programs and has served as a consultant to transportation agencies in the United States and Central America. The author of numerous papers, he is coauthor of three other books: Highway Engineering, Transportation Engineering: Planning and Design, and Introduction to Engineering.