PLANNING & OPERATION
Session Initiation

COURSE OBJECTIVES

• Assimilate basic sizing and airport planning techniques.
• Understand airside airport operations
• Understand the international regulatory reference governing the terminal programs and operations (Annex 14, in particular)

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Presentation of the regulatory reference governing terminal planning & operations

Airside Airport Planning
• Presentation of the traffic methods recommended in the international regulations (annual estimates, the airport’s peak time)
• Traffic typology and requires definition (air traffic and equipment, taxiways, parking area)
• Main interactions

Airport operation
• The different airside actors, their functions and tasks
• Interaction between these actors
• Flows and means of communication on an airport platform

Group project

PLANNING & OPERATION
AIRPORT PLANNING AIRSIDE

COURSE OBJECTIVES

• Know the airport capacity assessment methods
• Evaluate infrastructure required from a given capacity
• Understand the methods of sizing airside infrastructures
• Understand the impacts of an infrastructure modification on the city side and the airfield’s daily operation
• Carry out an infrastructure sizing study.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Traffic Predictions
• Annual forecasts
• Peak time
• Traffic typology

Requires definitions
• Air traffic and equipment
• Taxiway systems
• Parking area

Main interactions
• Site constraints
• Airplane traffic
• Ground handling services
• Interface with the terminal
• Interface with the airspace

Management of airport conception projects
• Project’s begining & training
• Impacts of the phase of works
• New infrastructures implementation

Airport Sizing Group Project

PLANNING & OPERATION
REGIONAL AIRPORT MANAGEMENT

COURSE OBJECTIVES

• Acquire fundamental knowledge in airport management and strategy
• Have knowledge of all the stakeholders at the international and local level and interrelationship
• Understand the overall airport operation, equipment, systems and their functions
• Develop airport commercial income
• Airport management methods
• Observe the management indicators

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Module 1: Air Transport Environment (5h)
• The Air Transport System: History, Regulation, Actors, Issues and Interaction
• Airport management methods
• International and national regulation

Module 2: Airport Operations (5h)
• Airport’s geography
• Stakeholders and interactions
• Landside operations
• Airside operations
• Air traffic control
• Ground handling challenges

Module 3: Infrastructure and Maintenance (10h)
• Airport infrastructure, systems and equipment
• Airport Information Systems (AIS): Functions, Issues and Examples
• Airport maintenance: issues, principles and good practices

Module 4: Airport Development (5h)
• The sources of airport commercial income
• Non-Aviation Revenue Development Strategies
• Understand the issues and develop an airport development strategy

Module 5: Airport Management (10h)
• Human ressources
• Financial management
• Animation of the airport community
• Communication and public