Aerospace Engineering Technical Elective Program - Focus Areas

Airport development is critical to economic growth and poverty reduction. This book will help decision-makers assess whether Public Private Partnerships (PPP) might be available option to meet their airport development requirements. It walks the reader through the airport PPP process, from early preparation to bringing the project to market and managing the project during implementation, helping to eradicate misconceptions about the role of the private sector in airport infrastructure.

This book explains airport planning from the ground up. Utilizing a basic framework and step-by-step approach, it introduces the critical parameters for selecting a suitable and "best" location from among multiple sites. International and country-specific regulations are described and accounted for. The master planning process is described with suitable illustrations and examples, and the benefits and best practices of master planning are also discussed.

This book articulates a new approach to airport planning that better captures the complexities and velocity of change in a contemporary world, leading to higher performing airports for users, business partners, investors and other stakeholders. This is especially pertinent since airports will need to come back better from the Covid-19 pandemic.

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of Air Transportation Management and takes the reader to the leading edge of the discipline, using past and present trends to forecast future challenges the industry may face, encouraging the reader to really think about the decisions a manager implements.

This book presents research methods useful in conducting research in modern urban transportation systems and networks. The knowledge base in practical examples, as well as the decision support methods described in this book is of interest to people who face the challenge of searching for solutions to the problems of contemporary transport networks and systems on a daily basis.