CONTROL OF MAMMALS AT AIRPORTS

Airport designers and planners, when considering the natural environment within and around the airport have two options. Those options are; to create as stertile an environment as possible thereby excluding fauna, or to create an aesthetically pleasing environment, a pride to both city and traveller, with all the attendant problems of pest control required for safety; In effect an artificial ecological island. Design considerations can be devised to include landscaping models which exclude some mammals and meet aesthetic requirements. Technological means to eliminate or repel mammals from airports such as trapping, chemical repellents, removal of attractants, aversive conditioning, and mechanical or electronic scaring devices are now available and their relative value has been reviewed.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Papers from the Proceedings, Conference and Training Workshops on Wildlife Hazards to Aircraft, Held at Charleston, South Carolina on 22-25 May 1984, pp 183-186
• Corporate Authors:

  Peer Consultants

  1160 Rockville Pike
  Rockville, MD  United States  20852

  Federal Aviation Administration

  800 Independence Avenue, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20591
• Authors:
  • Novakowski, N S
• Publication Date: 1984-5

Media Info

• Pagination: 4 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Airports; Animals; Drain pipe traps; Electronic equipment; Landscape design; Pest control; Safety
• Old TRIS Terms: Electronic devices; Repellents; Traps
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Design; Environment; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors; Terminals and Facilities; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00394857
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: DOT-FAA-AAS-84-1, AD-A148 330
• Contract Numbers: DTFA01-83-R-11287
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Oct 31 1985 12:00AM