Effective Practices for Preparing Airport Improvement Program Benefit-cost Analysis

Effective Practices for Preparing Airport Improvement Program Benefit-cost Analysis
Author: Steven Richard Landau
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 78
Release: 2009
Genre: Airports
ISBN: 0309098378

Benefit-Cost Analysis (BCA) aids in making capital investment decisions by determining whether the benefits of a proposed action justify its costs. This synthesis, Effective Practices for Preparing Airport Improvement Program Benefit-Cost Analysis, defines and describes benefit assessment techniques used by airports as well as other modes, highlights best practices, and identifies inconsistencies of how benefits are calculated and where there is confusion in the benefit-cost guidance published by the FAA. The project focused on a review of benefit-cost literature, including benefit-cost analyses submitted to the FAA, and structured interviews with airport managers and other applicants, consultants who prepared BCA studies, and FAA staff. BCA is a tool to aid agencies in project selection and prioritization. At its core, it is a computational tool to determine whether an investment will generate benefits that will exceed its costs. This analysis is accomplished by expressing all current and future benefits and costs on an equivalent basis, which is their present value (PV). A project is economically efficient if it has a positive Net Present Value (calculated as the PV of benefits minus the PV of costs), and hence also a Benefit-Cost Ratio exceeding one.

Engineering Economics for Aviation and Aerospace

Engineering Economics for Aviation and Aerospace
Author: Bijan Vasigh
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 712
Release: 2016-12-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317288459

For all engineers and practitioners, it is essential to have a fundamental understanding of cost structure, estimating cash flows, and evaluating alternative projects and designs on an economic basis. Engineering Economics for Aviation and Aerospace provides the tools and techniques necessary for engineers to economically evaluate their projects and choices. The focus of this book is on a comprehensive understanding of the theory and practical applications of engineering economics. It explains and demonstrates the principles and techniques of engineering economics and financial analysis as applied to the aviation and aerospace industries. Time value of money, interest factors, and spreadsheet functions are used to evaluate the cash flows associated with a single project or multiple projects. The alternative engineering economics tools and techniques are utilized in separate chapters to evaluate the attractiveness of a single project or to select the best of multiple alternatives. Most of the engineering economics and financial mathematics books available in the market take either a pure theoretical approach or offer limited applications. This book incorporates both approaches, providing students of aviation and industrial economics, as well as practitioners, with the necessary mathematical knowledge to evaluate alternatives on an economic basis.

Procuring and Managing Professional Services for Airports

Procuring and Managing Professional Services for Airports
Author: Thomas A. Defant (Jr.)
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2013
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0309259150

" TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 87: Procuring and Managing Professional Services for Airports provides guidance for procuring and managing professional services at airports for use by airport owners and operators. For the purposes of this report, professional services include planning, environmental, architectural and engineering, information technology, financial, legal, and other key professional services provided to airports. The report covers the procurement process, including scoping, pre-selection process, selection criteria, evaluation, and contract negotiations, and processes for managing professional services contracts. " -- Publisher's description.

Airport Leadership Development Program

Airport Leadership Development Program
Author: Seth B. Young
Publisher:
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2013
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 030925907X

"TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 75: Airport Leadership Development Program is designed to assist existing and future airport leaders to assess, obtain, and refine airport-industry leadership skills. The program includes forms for a full 360-degree individual assessment of core leadership traits. A complete facilitator guide with Microsoft PowerPoint presentations and participant workbooks and materials are also included on the CD-ROM that accompanies the print version of the report. The CD-ROM is also available for download from TRB's website as an ISO image. Links to the ISO image and instructions for burning a CD-ROM from an ISO image are provided below."--Publication info.

Airport Climate Adaptation and Resilience

Airport Climate Adaptation and Resilience
Author: Chris Baglin
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2012
Genre: Aeronautics
ISBN: 0309223636

Reviews the range of risks to airports from projected climate change and the emerging approaches for handling them, based on surveys of airports in the U.S., Toronto, and the U.K..

Managing Airports

Managing Airports
Author: Anne Graham
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 489
Release: 2018-06-13
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1351977857

Managing Airports presents a comprehensive and cutting-edge insight into today’s international airport industry. Approaching management topics from a strategic and commercial perspective, rather than from an operational and technical viewpoint, the book provides an innovative insight into the processes behind running a successful airport. This fifth edition has been fully revised and updated to reflect the many important developments in the management of airports including: • New content on: evolving airline models and implications for airports, self-connection, digital marketing, sensor and beacon technology, policy decisions and economic benefits, and climate change adaptation. • Updated and expanded content on: airport privatisation, economic regulation, technology within the terminal, non-aeronautical innovations, service quality and the passenger experience. • New and updated international case studies to show recent issues and theory in practice. Updated case studies from emerging economies such as China, India, and Brazil. Accessible and up-to-date, Managing Airports is ideal for students, lecturers and researchers of transport and tourism, and practitioners within the air transport industry.

A Benefit-Cost Analysis of the Airport Improvement Program (AIP), Fiscal Years 1982 Through 1985

A Benefit-Cost Analysis of the Airport Improvement Program (AIP), Fiscal Years 1982 Through 1985
Author: John M. Rodgers
Publisher:
Total Pages: 99
Release: 1986
Genre: Airports
ISBN:

This report assesses the major benefits and costs of airside capital and planning investments in the U.S. public airport system. The assessment centers on the Airport Improvement Program (AIP), the current federal airport grant program, but the findings and conclusions are also applicable to airport projects funded by other sources -- e.g., non-AIP state and local funding. An estimate is made of the major airside life-cycle benefits that have accrued and that are expected to accrue from capital and planning investments made under the AIP from FY 1982 through FY1985 inclusively and their attendant life-cycle operations and maintenance costs. Because not all types of benefits are quantified, the study should be considered conservative in that it probably understates total investment impact. Benefits consist of improved airport safety, preservation of airport capacity, environmental protection and economic development. Costs consists of capital and planning investments and the attendant life-cycle operations and maintenance costs. The life-cycle benefits quantified total $25.28 billion (1985 dollars at 1985 discounted present value). Comparing this with the corresponding life-cycle costs of $6.32 billion yields a benefit/cost ratio of 4.00 to 1.