Greening Airports considers the “greening”, i.e., more sustainable development, of the entire air transport system ? airports, air traffic control, and airlines ? that could be achieved by the development and implementation of advanced operations and technologies.?

A broad overview of the general concept is given at the start of Greening Airports, which then goes on to provide a system for monitoring and assessing the level of greening of both the air transport system and individual airports. These are followed by analysis and modelling of the potential effects of particular advanced operations and technologies on the greening of airports and their local airspace. These include:

• the development of a large airport into a multimodal transport node by connecting it to a high speed rail network;
• the use of operations supported by new and existing air traffic control technologies to increase landing capacity of existing runways;
• the use of liquid hydrogen as a commercial aviation fuel; and
• the improvement of airport ground accessibility by a light rail rapid transit system.?

Greening Airports is written for researchers, planners, operators and policy makers in air transport.

Greening Airports considers the sustainable development of the entire air transport system, from airports and air traffic control?to?airlines. The text provides a broad overview of the topic, as well as a system for both?monitoring and assessment.?

Greening Airports considers the “greening”, i.e., more sustainable development, of the entire air transport system ? airports, air traffic control, and airlines ? that could be achieved by the development and implementation of advanced operations and technologies.?

A broad overview of the general concept is given at the start of Greening Airports, which then goes on to provide a system for monitoring and assessing the level of greening of both the air transport system and individual airports. These are followed by analysis and modelling of the potential effects of particular advanced operations and technologies on the greening of airports and their local airspace. These include:

• the development of a large airport into a multimodal transport node by connecting it to a high speed rail network;
• the use of operations supported by new and existing air traffic control technologies to increase landing capacity of existing runways;
• the use of liquid hydrogen as a commercial aviation fuel; and
• the improvement of airport ground accessibility by a light rail rapid transit system.?

Greening Airports is written for researchers, planners, operators and policy makers in air transport.

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Greening Airports considers the “greening”, i.e., more sustainable development, of the entire air transport system ? airports, air traffic control, and airlines ? that could be achieved by the development and implementation of advanced operations and technologies.?

A broad overview of the general concept is given at the start of Greening Airports, which then goes on to provide a system for monitoring and assessing the level of greening of both the air transport system and individual airports. These are followed by analysis and modelling of the potential effects of particular advanced operations and technologies on the greening of airports and their local airspace. These include:

• the development of a large airport into a multimodal transport node by connecting it to a high speed rail network;
• the use of operations supported by new and existing air traffic control technologies to increase landing capacity of existing runways;
• the use of liquid hydrogen as a commercial aviation fuel; and
• the improvement of airport ground accessibility by a light rail rapid transit system.?

Greening Airports is written for researchers, planners, operators and policy makers in air transport.

1. Introduction 2. Greening the Air Transport System: Structure, Concept, and Principles 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Structure of the Air Transport System 2.3 Concept of Greening the Air Transport System 2.4 Principles of Greening the Air Transport System 2.5 Concluding Remarks References 3. Greening Airports I: Monitering, Analysing, and Assessing 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Airports and Concept of Greening 3.3 Indicator System as the Core of the Methodology 3.4 Concluding Remarks References 4. Greening Airports II: Transforming an Airport into a True Multimodal Transport Node 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Characteristics of HSR and APT in Europe 4.3 Methodology for Assessing Effects of Substituting APT with HSR at an Airport 4.4 Application of Proposed Methodology 4.5 Concluding Remarks References 5. Greening the Airport Airside Area I: Increasing Runway Capacity Without Increasing Airport Size 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Advanced Technologies for Increasing Runway Landing 5.3 Advanced Procedures and Regulations for Increasing Runway Landing Capacity 5.4 A Methodology for Estimating Effects of Advanced Technologies, Procedures, and Regulations on Runway Landing Capacity 5.5 Applications of Proposed Methodology 5.6 Concluding Remarks References 6. Greening the Airport Airside Area II: Liquid Hydrogen as an Alternative Fuel 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Fuels, Aircraft, and Airport Fuel-Supply/Storage Systems 6.3 Methodology for Assessing the Potential of Liquid Hydrogen 6.4 Application of Proposed Methodology 6.5 Concluding Remarks References 7. Greening the Airport Landside Area: Light Rail Rapid Transit Access System 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Airport Ground Accessibility 7.3 Light Rail Rapid Transit as an Airport Ground 7.4 Methodology for Assessing the Environmental Potential of the Light Rail Rapid Transit System at an Airport 7.5 Application of the Proposed Methodology 7.6 Concluding Remarks References 8. Conlusions: Could Airport Really Become Greener? Author Biography Glossary