Acknowledgments | p. xi |
Preface | p. xiii |
Introduction | |
The airport-airway system | p. 3 |
The formative period | p. 4 |
The National Airport Plan | p. 8 |
Postwar federal aid to airports | p. 12 |
Airport and Airway Development Act of 1970 | p. 17 |
Airport development in the 1980s and 1990s | p. 25 |
Concluding remarks | p. 36 |
The airport system | p. 45 |
Introduction | p. 45 |
Classification of airports | p. 49 |
The economic role of airports | p. 56 |
Current issues in airport system development | p. 59 |
Airport information sources | p. 74 |
Airport system planning | p. 81 |
Introduction | p. 81 |
The planning process | p. 83 |
The need for integration among plans | p. 96 |
Planning and funding the airport | |
Airport requirements and site selection | p. 101 |
Introduction | p. 102 |
Inventories | p. 103 |
Forecasting | p. 109 |
Demand/capacity analysis | p. 118 |
Environmental impact study | p. 120 |
Site selection | p. 124 |
Airport layout and land use plans | p. 133 |
Introduction: Phase three of the master plan | p. 134 |
Airport layout plan | p. 135 |
Approach and clear zone layout | p. 155 |
Land use plan | p. 160 |
Terminal area and airport access plans | p. 169 |
Introduction: Continuation of phase three | p. 170 |
Terminal area plans | p. 170 |
Airport access plans | p. 200 |
Financial planning | p. 209 |
Financial plan | p. 210 |
Financing methods | p. 215 |
Completing the financial plan | p. 233 |
Managing growth | |
Airport capacity and delay | p. 239 |
Introduction | p. 240 |
Capacity, demand, and delay | p. 242 |
Factors affecting capacity and delay | p. 245 |
Measuring delay | p. 248 |
Approaches to reducing delay | p. 249 |
Airside technological improvements | p. 273 |
Introduction | p. 274 |
Airport and airspace technology | p. 276 |
Airport surface utilization | p. 303 |
Landslide technological improvements | p. 315 |
Introduction | p. 316 |
Terminal facilities and services | p. 317 |
Landslide access | p. 339 |
Applications of technology to airport problems | p. 354 |
The management process | |
Financial management | p. 361 |
Airport accounting | p. 362 |
Planning and budgeting | p. 366 |
Approaches to financial management at commercial airports | p. 369 |
Pricing of airport facilities and services | p. 375 |
Trends in airport financial management since deregulation | p. 384 |
Organization and administration | p. 391 |
Airport ownership and operation | p. 392 |
The airport organization chart | p. 394 |
Airport management as a career | p. 405 |
The airport manager and public relations | p. 409 |
Airport operations | p. 417 |
Pavement maintenance | p. 418 |
Snow removal | p. 427 |
Safety inspection program | p. 433 |
Bird hazards | p. 436 |
Aircraft rescue, fire fighting | p. 439 |
Security | p. 445 |
Ground support equipment | p. 451 |
Airport relations with tenants and the public | p. 461 |
The airport as landlord | p. 462 |
Liability insurance | p. 469 |
Aircraft noise | p. 471 |
Glossary | p. 483 |
Abbreviations | p. 523 |
Index | p. 529 |
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