GROWING CONCERN IN AVIATION WITH COSTS AND BENEFITS

This article reports on ICAS'S Air 8th Navigation Conference held in Montreal in 1974. Four hundred airport experts from seventy-five different countries gathered to discuss the major tasks and problems involved in planning, constructing and operating commercial airports runways, taxiways, fog disposal, lighting aids, fire and rescue services, safety, and environmental questions were the major topics of concern at this conference, and this article sums up the more important points that were said on each of these topics.

• Corporate Authors:

  Bauverlag GmbH

  Wittelbacherstrasse 10
  6200 Wiesbaden,   Germany 
• Authors:
  • Grosch, R F
• Publication Date: 1974-6

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 54-62
• Serial:
  • AIRPORT FORUM
  • Volume: 4
  • Issue Number: 2

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Airport operations; Airport planning; Airport runways; Benefit cost analysis; Construction; Disasters and emergency operations; Environmental impacts; Hazards and emergency operations; Safety; Taxiways
• Old TRIS Terms: Airport management
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Construction; Environment; Operations and Traffic Management; Pavements; Safety and Human Factors; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00155679
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 20 1977 12:00AM