Airport Engineering

Unit 1 - Airport Planning

• L1-2 (Airport Catchment identification, O-D Estimation)

• L3-4 (Calibration and DCGM)

• L3-4 Problem Set for Practice

• L5-6 (Intervening Opportunity Models)

• L7 (Competing Opportunity Models & LPP)

• L8-9 (Airport Mode Choice)

• L10-11 (Airport Traffic Assignment)

Quiz-1 on August 21, 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM

References

• T1 - Air Transport Demand Forecasting (Chapter 2 of Airport Engineering Planning, Design, and Development of 21st Century Airports by Norman J. Ashford)

• T2 - Trip Distribution Problems (Chapter 6 of Transport Planning by PK Sarkar)

• T3 - Modal Split Problems (Chapter 7 of Transport Planning by PK Sarkar)

• T4 - Traffic Assignment Problems (Chapter 9 of Principles of Transport Engineering by Partha Chakraborty and Animesh Das)

Unit 3 - Airport Infrastructure - Part 1 (Air Demand Economics, Obstructions - Imaginary Surfaces, Runway Geometric Design)

• L12-15 - Air Demand Economics

• L12-15 Appendix (Chapter 2 of Transportation Engineering by Khisty and Lall)

• L16-17 - Airport Infrastructure - Classification, Obstructions - Imaginary Surfaces

• L16-17 Appendix (Animation of Imaginary Surfaces)

• L18-19 Runway Length Computation and Corrections for Elevation, Temp, Grade

• L18-19 Appendix (Textbook Chapter on Runway Length Computation)

Syllabus Coverage for MID-TERM Exam (Up to and Including L19)

Mid-term on August 21, 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM

Unit 4 - Airport Infrastructure - Part 2 (Runway Orientation, Cross-wind, Airfield Pavement Design, Drainage, ATC)

Unit 2 - Airport Operations and Management