Application of Environmental Models in the Context of Total Airport Management Collaborative Planning

Abstract

During the last years the problem of global warming and the effects on mankind has come more and more to the public awareness. The result is that the number of environmental protection programs has been increased as well as the funding for research projects in this area. But in the field of aviation, the development of environmental concepts has not been a main focus in the past. The Total Airport Management initiative is developed to become a future concept for airport management. As a future concept TAM needs to focus on the various disciplines, like operational improvements. One of those is the application of environmental models and the function of being environmental friendly. The intention of this paper is to show the ability to implement environmental planning within TAM, as well as applied models for such a concept. The conclusion is that future work has to be conducted to this topic to produce a better understanding of the environmental effects due to aviation and how these effects could be minimized and taken into consideration with regard to Airport Operations.