Towards Future Passenger Operations at Airports
A special issue of Aerospace (ISSN 2226-4310). This special issue belongs to the section "Air Traffic and Transportation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2022) | Viewed by 7626
Special Issue Editors
Interests: simulation-optimization; transport; aviation; machine learning
Interests: air transportation; data-driven and model-based environments; predictive analysis; integrated airspace and airport management
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The requirements placed on airport infrastructures are evolving rapidly so that outdated technical systems and processes can only make a limited contribution to efficient handling. The COVID pandemic in particular has shown how far away we still are from the airport of the future. Now is the right time to sustainably introduce digital technologies and enable added values at the airport. However, for handling systems to function as efficiently and seamlessly as possible, passengers should play an active role in dynamic airport management.
This Special Issue calls for innovative and disruptive contributions that address models, methods, optimization approaches as well as improved operational procedures or design challenges to be solved for passenger operations and handling in and around the airport terminal (e.g., terminal, aircraft cabin, passenger trajectory, terminal building capacity), e.g., (but not limited to) the following topics.
- Self-connecting passengers;
- Digitalization of handling processes;
- Sensor concepts in the airport environment;
- Dynamic management and optimization of passenger flows;
- Holistic gate allocation considering delays, apron and passenger terminal capacities;
- Impact of COVID-19 regulations on future operations;
- Innovative boarding and disembarkation concepts;
- Automation of passenger handling, self-handling passengers;
- Data analysis and data-driven approaches for monitoring and optimization;
- Intermodal passenger journey, passenger and information flow, harmonization strategies;
- Intermodal airport connections, passenger transfer from/to urban air traffic system;
- Behavioral aspects of passengers trajectories;
- Terminal building management, energy management.
Dr. Miguel Mujica Mota
Dr. Michael Schultz
Guest Editors
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