Airport Environmental Impact And Legislation

When the environment is disturbed, people are greatly affected, and this can cause serious damage to human and living beings. The proper utilization of these resources helps to control environmental pollution and can help for establishing clean and healthy environment. I will work with this committee to conserve the environment in the state of Texas and in the whole country.

The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS) forever changed the way airports were classified when it was unveiled in 1982 (Wells, 2011). The aviation industry had grown significantly since deregulation went into effect, and a new system needed to be put in place that would distinguish airports with incredible growth and expansion from those that served niche markets or flight training (Wells). Under the NPIAS, airports were broken down into three major categories: commercial services airports, reliever airports, and general aviation airports (Wells). The following paragraphs describe the three categories of airports that were created by the NPIAS, and conclude with an airport that fits into that particular category today.

Pollution controls are laws in Arizona the biggest one that I can think of is Construction has a no dust policy they are required to keep water trucks on site at all times and must spray the area that they are working every 40 minutes during cold months and every 25 minutes during the hot summer months.

BWI Marshall Airport is essential to the economy of Anne Arundel County. According to Maryland Department of Transportation (2017) it is the regions and nations most heavily trafficked airport. “A record number of passengers flew through Baltimore-Washington International Marshall Airport in 2016. In all 25.1 million passengers traveled through BWI ,which beats the previous record of 23.8 million set in 2015” (Maryland Department of Transportation, 2017). Another way to boost the County economy would be the expansion of Tipton Airport, which was once a military aipoort.

Since the development of commercial of air travel, Airline operations have had negative effects on both people’s health and the health of the environment. Because of this many airports, like many other industries, are coming under great pressure to develop greener and more sustainable business models. In the United States, many companies have changed their practices in order to adhere to government regulations, but lately there are a growing number of companies that have been more proactive in their adoption of greener practices. The Chicago O’Hare airport operated by the Chicago Aviation Department, the CDA, is one such organization that has taken upon itself to try to become one of the industry’s leading sustainable companies. They have

One of the first things to know about the way the aviation industry impacts the environment is it is different from other sources of emissions. According to a FAA report, aircraft’s btu/passenger mile (energy intensity) is 2,654 in 2012. This is an 24.3% improvement from the 3,505 btu/passenger miles in 2004. It is also improving faster compared to automobiles btu/passenger mile of 8.8% improvement (FAA, 2015). In aviation, most of its pollutants are distributed at high altitudes. However, this can still be hazardous to the environment because aircraft emissions above 3,000 feet can cause up to five times more health impacts than emissions below 3,000 (Steven Barrett, Ian A. Waitz, 2009-2010).

To have facilities that are safe for the environmental. Create job opportunities and using local contractors for social development and economic.

To avoid congestion and operating conflicts between large commercial aircraft and small GA aircraft, the FAA has designated some airports near major airports as reliever airports. Several of these high-capacity GA airports may serve a major metropolitan area providing access to the surrounding areas without experiencing delays at busier commercial airports. The NPIAS defines Reliever Airports as having at least 100 aircraft based at the airport or have 25,000 annual itinerant operations (Young,

One of the major issues at airports is improving efficiency, flow of all traffic to reduce the possibility of delays. After safety, everyone involved in any sort of airport operations, works on increasing efficiency in order to avoid delays and having to spend additional money. As the airports operations increase, the people in charge will have to come up with solutions to avoid setbacks. Airport planners have to come up with ideas in order to improve airport facilities and increase the efficiency of the flow. The challenges that come with this type of projects is that sometimes the airports don’t have much room for improvement within the airport and don’t have room to expand due to surrounding neighborhoods. This is where they have to find the right balance for capacity and delay. To solve this problem first they have to find the hitch and then focus on working on that specific area. For example, it can be a specific terminal, runways, taxiways, or not enough gates. Other alternatives to the matter can be working on distributing the traffic through the off-peak times, or to start using other areas to within the airport to decrease the traffic at one specific area.

The biggest loss for the airport would be stealing of aircraft or parts, as well as purposely trying to harm the plane or anyone on it (Gardner, 1995). Some things that can be done to prevent access to the planes would be making sure they are all in a locked hanger. The use of barriers, fences, controlled and locked gates, CCTV, and limit pedestrian and vehicle traffic in those certain areas. Utilize the security personnel and make sure they are enforcing the access controls.

Even though most residents don 't fly out of a general aviation facility they do benefit economically from the aviation activity that has a definite impact on the economy of the community.

Sanchez and Hudson opened small pediatric office in Riverside, California is an example of having a dream come true without planning for the future. The building has become too large for the staffing that the Two Doctors /entruenpuers have been in for five years, Records are being lost, and waiting rooms packed medical records systems are overloaded with the possibility of patient’s records getting lost. Long lines cause patients to get in patients and staff to get stressed from their inability to serve their customers. The Two business men are spending

Built in 1997 as the solution to relieve the once-congested Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, MidAmerica Airport in St. Clair County, sits quiet and empty. The airport has everything its big brother has 25 miles away in St. Louis, everything except passengers. With 38.6 million potential passengers within in a 300 mile radius, it’s unknown what members of the St. Clair County Public Building Commission are doing to attract new business to the facility. But with air travel booming again, passengers are bargain hunting for alternatives to the industry giants that use Lambert-St. Louis International. One solution to this problem would be to market MidAmerica Airport as the only low cost alternative in the region. This type of marketing paired with its already low facility charges, could be the answer to attracting new carriers like Sprit, JetBlue, and Sun Country to the region. To fully understand how this solution could be implemented, first the history of MidAmerica Airport must be discussed, next why marketing the facility as the only low cost alternative in the region should be explored, and finally how to get the governing body of the facility, the St. Clair County Public Building Commission, to consider the solution.

Airport construction also poses a short-term but substantial threat to the environment with all the different jobs being done, there are a lot of different construction equipment such as cranes, dozers, excavators, concrete equipment, etc. that can cause problems with the environment. The main environmental issues affected by include air, water, and noise pollution. Air pollution has always been a big topic in everywhere and around an airport there is no

Figure 5 : Air Cargo growth and its impact on GDP growth in India Source: NCAER,2012