Greening Airports: Advanced Technology and Operations

✍ Scribed by Milan Janić (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 221
• Series: Green Energy and Technology
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Greening Airports considers the “greening”, i.e., more sustainable development, of the entire air transport system – airports, air traffic control, and airlines – that could be achieved by the development and implementation of advanced operations and technologies.

A broad overview of the general concept is given at the start of Greening Airports, which then goes on to provide a system for monitoring and assessing the level of greening of both the air transport system and individual airports. These are followed by analysis and modelling of the potential effects of particular advanced operations and technologies on the greening of airports and their local airspace. These include:

• the development of a large airport into a multimodal transport node by connecting it to a high speed rail network;
• the use of operations supported by new and existing air traffic control technologies to increase landing capacity of existing runways;
• the use of liquid hydrogen as a commercial aviation fuel; and
• the improvement of airport ground accessibility by a light rail rapid transit system.

Greening Airports is written for researchers, planners, operators and policy makers in air transport.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-3
Greening the Air Transport System: Structure, Concept, and Principles....Pages 5-33
Greening Airports I: Monitoring, Analysing, and Assessing....Pages 35-64
Greening Airports II: Transforming an Airport into a True Multimodal Transport Node....Pages 65-97
Greening the Airport Airside Area I: Increasing Runway Capacity Without Increasing Airport Size....Pages 99-132
Greening the Airport Airside Area II: Liquid Hydrogen as an Alternative Fuel....Pages 133-163
Greening the Airport Landside Area: Light Rail Rapid Transit Access System....Pages 165-199
Conclusions: Could Airports Really Become Greener?....Pages 201-202
Back Matter....Pages 203-206

✦ Subjects

Facility Management; Construction Management; Sustainable Development; Renewable and Green Energy; Energy Efficiency (incl. Buildings)