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Unlawful interference with civil aviation has become a major concern for the world aviation community. The misuse of aircraft as a weapon of mass destruction has created new challenges. Air terrorism has moved from hijacking or unlawful seizure of aircraft to an in-flight explosion caused by sabotage and finally to September 11, 2001, to the use of a civil airplane as a weapon of destruction. / The events of September may be the biggest security challenge ever faced by the aviation industry. The impact of this tragic event on the global economy has been very harsh. The events have tended to obscure the fact that civil aviation continues to be an inherent safe mode of transport. / Great efforts are being made at the national and international levels to create a security net which is global in nature and so tight that not one further potential act of unlawful interference can slip through. However, the fact remains that, in weaving the net and designing measures with the objectives of preventing, combating and eradicating acts of terrorism involving civil aviation, it is prudent to be imaginative in assessing the threat, which could come from new directions and in new forms. / This thesis explores the implications of the 11 September 2001 events. A global strategy is initiated by ICAO and endorsed by the States, with the aim of protecting lives, restoring public confidence in air travel, and promoting the financial health of air transport. I will therefore examine the measures initiated by ICAO in response to the new challenges in aviation and which form the basis of the aviation security action plan. The perspective is that the events of 11 September have changed the world, and changed irrecoverably. Nothing will be the same for the aviation industry.

As you probably know, to board the B777-300ERi in Geneva for Anchorage via London, is not just that simple. With your ticket you bought several days before, you come to the airport, check in, pay airport's fees, go through the customs and security checks, walk in the terminal following signs, maybe you stop in the duty free shops, and finally find your gate. By this time, you are ready to board, about one hour after you enter the airport. / We will be essentially interested in air law that is why, the purpose of this master's thesis is to consider the legal aspect of facilitation in civil aviation. The term facilitation refers to the process that passengers, crew, luggage, cargo and mail have to go through when they cross borders to fly from a point A to a point B. / Recently, an aspect of facilitation took an outstanding importance: health issues. At the end of last year, the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak was a real threat to international civil aviation because passengers (and crews) could have been exposed to an infected person inside the terminal or on board the plane, also, aircrafts were considered a fast vector of this disease through the world. The economic consequences for airlines and airports were very painful. / iBoeing 777-300 Extended Range.

A methodology for modeling general aviation transportation systems from a system of systems perspective is presented. The completed framework aids the conceptual design process by providing capability-based metrics to the design engineer, as opposed to the traditional performance and cost, system-level metrics. The methodology is applied to two example problems representing promising future general aviation aircraft: the general aviation piston (GAP) and jet (GAJ). Results are presented in an array of formats, and the decision-making strategies that are now apparent in light of the capability-based metrics are described. The findings suggest that the system of systems framework might act as an analytical surrogate to the conventional problem definition process, providing indications of market preferences when that information is not immediately available through the conventional means. Implementation of this methodology can afford engineers a more autonomous perspective in the concept exploration process, providing dynamic feedback about a design's potential success in specific market segments. The method also has potential to strengthen the connection between design and business departments, as well as between manufacturers, service providers, and infrastructure planners - bringing information about how the respective systems interact, and what might be done to improve synergism of systems.

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1982. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ENGINEERING. / Includes bibliographical references. / by Mostafa Terrab. / M.S.

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Xu, Fang. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 75-79). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i / Acknowledgement --- p.ii / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 2 --- Background Information --- p.3 / Chapter 2.1 --- Growth of Air-Transportation Industry --- p.3 / Chapter 2.1.1 --- General Figures --- p.3 / Chapter 2.1.2 --- Growth of Air Cargo Market --- p.3 / Chapter 2.1.3 --- Regulatory Support --- p.5 / Chapter 2.2 --- The Focus: Pearl River Delta --- p.6 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- Strategic Moves of Airports --- p.8 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Investment and Development of Airlines --- p.12 / Chapter 2.2.3 --- Hong Kong VS Shen Zhen --- p.13 / Chapter 3 --- Airport Competition --- p.14 / Chapter 3.1 --- Introduction --- p.14 / Chapter 3.2 --- One-period two port competition model --- p.15 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- The basic model --- p.15 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- Stackelberg Game --- p.23 / Chapter 3.2.3 --- Location factor --- p.26 / Chapter 3.3 --- Two-period two port competition model --- p.27 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- The basic model --- p.27 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- Switching cost --- p.30 / Chapter 3.4 --- Conclusion --- p.33 / Chapter 4 --- Combined airline VS full-cargo airline --- p.34 / Chapter 4.1 --- Introduction --- p.34 / Chapter 4.2 --- Model Setup --- p.35 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- Modelling Capacity and Cost --- p.35 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- Modelling Demand --- p.37 / Chapter 4.2.3 --- The Optimization Framework --- p.37 / Chapter 4.2.4 --- Decomposition of the Decision Process --- p.39 / Chapter 4.3 --- Step 1: Strategies in the Passenger Market --- p.40 / Chapter 4.3.1 --- Carriers enter the game with zero-inventory --- p.40 / Chapter 4.3.2 --- Incumbent carrier has established initial capacity --- p.42 / Chapter 4.4 --- Step 2: Strategies in the Cargo Market --- p.45 / Chapter 4.5 --- Centralized decision --- p.49 / Chapter 4.5.1 --- Both airlines have zero initial capacity in the passenger market --- p.50 / Chapter 4.5.2 --- One airline has non-zero initial capacity in the passenger market --- p.51 / Chapter 4.5.3 --- Both airlines have initial capacity in the cargo market --- p.53 / Chapter 4.6 --- Conclusion --- p.53 / Chapter 5 --- Demand growth and shifting --- p.55 / Chapter 5.1 --- Introduction --- p.55 / Chapter 5.2 --- Competition Scenario --- p.56 / Chapter 5.2.1 --- Growth and shifting of passenger demand --- p.56 / Chapter 5.2.2 --- Growth and shifting of cargo demand --- p.60 / Chapter 5.3 --- Centralized decision making --- p.64 / Chapter 5.4 --- conclusion --- p.72 / Chapter 6 --- Conclusion --- p.73 / Bibliography --- p.75

Air transport is of critical importance to move passengers and cargo from one place to another on a global scale. Subsistence, sustenance, growth and profitability of the air transport industry are dependent on the demand for transport from passengers and cargo as the main sources of revenue of the airline industry. The forces of globalization and liberalization, coupled with the very rapid development of low-cost operators, have tempered the growth and profitability of the aviation industry whilst, at the same time, greatly increasing the consumer (passenger and air freight user) advantages in terms of expanding the gamut of their choices, better quality and lower prices. The ever-expanding markets in the Asia and Pacific region hold great promise for a rapid growth of the aviation industry in years to come. / Currently, the international civil aviation community is faced with many challenges evolving from globalization, liberalization of economic regulations, privatization of airlines and airports, commercialization of government services providers, increasing environmental controls, and the emerge of new technologies. To deal effectively with these challenges and issues will require a high level of cooperation among civil aviation authorities, airlines, airports, and providers of air services and products. Airlines under the new free trade regimes have been exposed to many changes and although GATS has an important role to play in this important field, the convergence of economic, safety, security and environmental issues makes a strong case for keeping regulation in these critical issues under the ICAO aviation umbrella. / As air transport experiences structural, policy and regulatory environment changes, in the era of free trade it would be interesting to critically examine the impact of the aforementioned changes on the rights and protection of passengers. In this relation, it becomes very important to review the international, regional, and national efforts which have been made to enhance consumer protection and also have an important bearing on the rights of airline passengers. The thesis also addresses some emerging, non-traditional consumer protection issues, such as health, racial discrimination and the rights of disabled passengers. / In view of the above, the well-developed consumer protection regimes in the United States and the European Union (EU) would be examined in depth and the results of its analysis would be used to develop a suitable model airline passenger protection in the rapidly expending economies of the Asia and Pacific Region.