Noise around airports

Liberalization of air transportation opens the European market to low cost carriers. Offering cheep flights to main centres of economic and social development, this group of airlines considerably influences the role of this branch of passenger transportation, making it accessible a wider range of society. Using cheaper airports offering lower costs, these carriers change the airport hierarchy. Local airfields or regional airports become important European transportation nodes. These processes influence some spatial changes. Developing airports need more space for rebuilding terminals and enlarging service centres. Beside this spatial growth of air transportation infrastructure, changes also concern land use in their neighbourhood, because new economic activities appear in the vicinity of these 'new' airports.

This paper shows that most attention has gone to a linear reading of the evolution of (European) airports in the recent literature, emphasizing contrasted moments of these places. It argues that airports need to be also envisioned as sites of pluralized and changing (aero)mobilities by bridging gaps between the studies of past, present, and future airports as well as between their various monographic investigations. Key political, cultural, social, and economical issues affecting (aero)mobile societies in terms of security, consumption, regulation or bordering can therefore be better understood as complex processes at play in the spatial and temporal connections between airports.

17th Annual World Conference of the Air Transport Research Society (paper published in the electronic conference proceedings), 2013

Literature review regarding the term of airport catchment area vary according to the location examined in every research. The results present the same degree of variety as airport catchment area seems to have the ability to fluctuate depending on the external factors of each airport case. Furthermore, the role of the intermodality for the airport catchment area is obvious within the literature as a key factor of its further spread. Not only, shuttle buses and railways could contribute to the chain of intermodality with the airport but also, a short sea shipping link according to the geography characteristics of the area in the wider region of an airport. Taking into account all the above, the spread of the Izmir International Airport " Adnan Menderes " catchment area beyond Turkish frontiers to the Greek Eastern Aegean islands may have a potential. Hereupon, a sedulous market research regarding travel time and transport costs allowed the modeling of particular scenarios for ten main European cities traveling via Athens International Airport or via International Airport of Izmir, followed by a primary research that has been undertaken to the citizens of Chios island in order to examine their willingness to use Izmir for their international air travel since geographically is much closer to them than Athens. The results were analyzed statistically with SPSS presenting a clear willingness for an air travel via Izmir since it was selected almost by the 80% of the participants.

2008

This paper aims to provide an insight into the roles and characteristics of the different typologies of airports by detailing a functional framework of the European network. The first part of the work focuses on the classification of airports employing clustering techniques. Then, the analysis employs an innovative methodology to verify the existence of subsystems (or modules) of high interconnectivity within the European aviation network. The classification provided defines the airports both as separate entities with specific characteristics and as parts of specific modules. Our motivation is to provide a new way to classify European network in order to have a better understanding of the role they played into the network. Our approachs aim to identify groups of airports as strategic groups that share common attributes/roles but also to identify intra-industry grouping based on network interactions. This paper hints at the existence of a solid multilayered network system within Europe, in which traditional hub & spoke networks and low-cost point to point networks are interviewed.

2020

Air traffic is recognised to bring benefits to the local economy, in terms of both cargo and passenger mobility. European airports are implementing several measures to reduce aircraft noise, in line with the European Commission regulation and the International Civil Aviation Organisation’s proposal of the so-called balanced approach. Noise exposure estimates are gathered from the European Environment Agency, which collects information on European Union member states’ airports. Different strategies can be implemented to reduce the noise or mitigate its effects, including the appropriate design and production of aircraft and airport collaboration with authorities and neighbourhood associations. Reduction of noise at the source consists of the appropriate design and production of aircraft, focusing on the reduction of engine noise and addressing airframe noise aerodynamic construction which generates low drag. Milan Bergamo Airport has been actively involved in environmental programmes...

2020

Limited research on aviation in Denmark. Across Europe, there are some traditions of conducting aviation research, but for some unknown reason, the research attention towards aviation in Denmark is very limited. Based on a review of research papers presented at the largest Danish Transport Conference Traffic Days, there have from 2005 to 2017 only been presented 11 research projects focusing on different dimensions of aviation in contrast the total nearly 1.000 presentation of different aspects of transport research on e.g. road or rail. (see section: 2.4 Field of Aviation and Airport Research). The last couples of years, though, there have been an increasingly political attention towards aviation in Denmark in relation to development of the first Danish governmental aviation strategy published in 2017. This strategy was to some extent based on different consultancy reports arguing for different challenges within the Danish aviation sector. Disregard of this, I will still argue that research within aviation in Denmark is very limited.

Mobility in History, 2017

This paper shows that most attention has gone to a linear reading of the evolution of (European) airports in the recent literature, emphasizing contrasted moments of these places. It argues that airports need to be also envisioned as sites of pluralized and changing (aero)mobilities by bridging gaps between the studies of past, present, and future airports as well as between their various monographic investigations. Key political, cultural, social, and economical issues affecting (aero)mobile societies in terms of security, consumption, regulation or bordering can therefore be better understood as complex processes at play in the spatial and temporal connections between airports. Airports seem to be an endless ground for conceiving past and present (aero)mobilities. Understood not only as air mobilities but also as the dominant mobilities of international travel, aeromobilities offer an encompassing understanding of airports as sites of meaningful (im)mobilities of people, objects, ideas, and ideologies. 1 These sites touch on more power relationships, across far larger and thinner scales of time and space than the ones usually considered in the study of transportation places. As the first review on airport historiography in this journal has showed it, scholars have socially, politically and culturally investigated airports in manifold ways, turning them into key transdisciplinary objects for the development of mobilities studies. 2 In recent years, studies on European airports have been numerous. Few of these have engaged in deep historical analysis although temporalities play a key role in airports. As spaces they are constantly changing, with terminals themselves being significantly

This paper is about the agglomeration effect of Amsterdam Airport Schiphol and its implications for location policy regarding the airport region. We focus on a specific case, namely the important concentration of European Distribution Centers (EDCs) around the airport. The traditional answer to the question why EDCs are attracted to the airport is due to the importance of having air transport services at their disposal. However, we show that this is only a partial answer and that economies of agglomeration are the most important determinants. Moreover, we show that the spatial economic development of the airport area needs to be accompanied by new insights concerning location policy.

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2018 AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics Conference, 2018