By Mariëlle Prins
By Bart de Jong, Pere Suau-Sanchez and Michael Droß
Continually globalizing forces have formed a new reality. A reality that is characterized by an increasing and paradoxical worldwide interdependency that is blurring and redefining boundaries, flows of people, products, services, capital and information. The central … Read more…
In the era of globalization, airports are rapidly developing as new economic centers of the cityregion. Despite internationally comparative economic trends and the challenge of urban planning this brings along, the institutional conditions for the actors involved remain rather local. Development agencies are set up … Read more…
In the era of globalization, airports are rapidly developing as new economic centers of the cityregion. Despite internationally comparative economic trends and the challenge of urban planning this brings along, the institutional conditions for the actors involved remain rather local. Development agencies are set up … Read more…
This article focuses on the fast development of the newly built Athens International Airport (AIA) ‘Eleftherios Venizelos’. The new airport changed radically the image of the Greek capital and quickly developed into the most important air-hub in South-eastern Europe. The largest airport in Greece, which … Read more…
By Moses Buenda and Alexandre G. de Barros
This paper deconstructs all the major determinants affecting retail revenue in airport terminal design. Moses Buendia and Alexandre G. de Barros provide two main determinants to improve retail revenues: the penetration factor, and dwell time. Both of … Read more…
This contribution shows that the identification of the declared capacity can be supported through the methodology of capacity analysis according to Gilbo and the application of airside simulation. However this practice can only be regarded as assistance to the coordination committee, since only runway system … Read more…
By A.K. Somasundaraswaran
Sri Lanka’s Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) is Sri Lanka’s only gateway to facilitate international flights, located 32 kilometres away from Colombo city. In order to satisfy ever increasing demand, BIA has been continuously developing its infrastructure. As a result, A.K. Somasundaraswaran expects … Read more…
Airport strategic planning (ASP) focuses on the development of plans for the medium-term and long-term development of an airport. Master Planning (AMP) results in a Master Plan that ‘presents the planner’s conception of the ultimate development of a specific airport’. Jan Kwakkel argues that finding … Read more…
By Bouke Veldman
Selectivity in combination with the introduction of a multi airport system has become a topic for future policymaking around Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AAS). Veldman enumerates several demand management measures like slot allocation and slot trading, pricing (charging and taxing), restrictions (limit traffic … Read more…
