"Airport Management is an up-to-date and industry-relevant textbook written by an experienced airport administrator. With more than ten years of airport experience, Dr. C. Daniel Prather, A.A.E, CAM, has developed a practical text designed to provide useful insight into the management and operation of airports. The textbook presents insight into the history and structure of airports; air traffic, capacity and delay; planning; design and construction; environmental; operations; maintenance; safety and security; marketing; governmental, legal, and public relations; properties, contracts, and commercial development; financial management; funding and financial impacts; and future challenges and opportunities. Illustrated throughout, each chapter contains an objectives, key terms, questions for review and discussion, and suggested readings. Case studies, glossary and index included. Written in an easy-to-read format, also included is a comprehensive introduction to this career as well as useful scenarios, case studies, and extensive definitions. These practical features will equip readers with real-world insight in the fields of airport management and better prepare them as airport professionals to solve contemporary issues airport managers face on a regular basis while on the job"

Practical Airport Operations, Safety, and Emergency Management: Protocols for Today and the Future focuses on the airport itself, not the aircraft, manufacturers, designers, or even the pilots. The book explores the safety of what's been called 'the most expensive piece of pavement in any city'— the facility that operates, maintains, and ensures the safety of millions of air passengers every year. The book is organized into three helpful sections, each focusing on one of the sectors described in the title. Section One: Airport Safety, explores the airport environment, then delves into safety management systems. Section Two: Airport Operations, continues the conversation on safety management systems before outlining airside and landside operations in depth, while Section Three: Airport Emergency Management, is a careful, detailed exploration of the topic, ending with a chapter on the operational challenges airport operations managers can expect to face in the future. Written by trusted experts in the field, users will find this book to be a vital resource that provides airport operations managers and students with the information, protocols, and strategies they need to meet the unique challenges associated with running an airport. - Addresses the four areas of airport management: safety, operations, emergency management, and future challenges together in one book - Written by leading professionals in the field with extensive training, teaching, and practical experience in airport operations - Includes section on future challenges, including spaceport, unmanned aerial vehicles, and integrated incident command - Ancillary materials for readers to reinforce concepts and instructors teaching operations courses - Focuses on the topics of safety, operations, emergency management, and what personnel and students studying the topic can expect to face in the future

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* A one-stop source for current developments, cutting-edge planning and managing techniques, new technologies, statistics, trends, and regulatory issues * Expert guidance on airport site selection, design, access, financing, law and regulation, security, capacity, and technological advances * NEW and expanded airspace and air traffic control system coverage * NEW breakout of key Federal Aviation Regulations, Advisory Circulars, forms, etc.

* The new standard on airport systems planning,design, and management * Provides solutions to the most pressing airport concerns: expansion, traffic, environment, additions, etc. * Full coverage of computer-based tools and methodology * Additional reports and updates available via authors' website