Technological and educational challenges towards pandemic-resilient aviation

While COVID-19 has devastating effects on aviation, several recent studies have highlighted the potential of the pandemic-induced break for rethinking air transportation, hopefully orchestrating changes towards the construction of a more pandemic-resilient aviation system. Here, pandemic-resilient means that aviation stakeholders can sustain the impact of an epidemic or pandemic outbreak through a more informed reallocation of their resources and more collaborative decision making, while being able to minimize the impacts of external events. This study contributes to the literature by discussing the challenges associated with technological innovation and education of aviation professionals, on the way towards pandemic-resilient aviation. The authors discuss issues surrounding technologies for smarter aircraft, smarter airports, and smarter airlines. While technology ensures long-term competitiveness and sustainability, an often-ignored source of challenges are human resources and education. COVID-19 has uncovered and magnified the effects of severe concerns with the current aviation education system, which need to be solved by extended skill sets, modern technology, and better career perspectives. Without properly addressing these technological and educational challenges, the aviation industry likely misses a distinct opportunity for restructuring towards pandemic-resilient aviation.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2021.09.010
• Record URL:
  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0967070X21002754
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/oclc/29485010
• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2021 Xiaoqian Sun et al. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Sun, Xiaoqian
  • Wandelt, Sebastian
  • 0000-0003-0088-9287
  • Zhang, Anming
• Publication Date: 2021-12

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: pp 104-115
• Serial:
  • Transport Policy
  • Volume: 114
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0967-070X
  • Serial URL: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/issn/096707X

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air transportation; COVID-19; Disaster resilience; Education and training; Safety
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Security and Emergencies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01785175
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 22 2021 9:02AM