機場在航空運輸產業供應鏈扮演著舉足輕重的角色，國際機場作為國家之門戶，其傳遞予外部顧客之軟硬體設施服務水準，正是國家競爭力之展現；時至今日，網際網路已成為民眾傳遞、分享及獲取多元資訊主要媒介，國際機場網站更是國際機場管理當局經營顧客關係的伸展台，因此，國際機場網站所傳遞的不僅是機場的形象，更是國家的面貌，如何讓外籍顧客在與國際機場網站初次邂逅的同時，即滿足其資訊需求，進而產生造訪該國的動機，即成為國際機場網站管理者進行服務設計時之重要課題。 本研究針對臺灣桃園國際機場等六座機場之英文版網站進行內容分析及網站優使性測試，發現多數評估對象之網站內容或功能並無顯著之差異，然而，經研究者彙整優使性測試評分、受測人員之優使性測試意見及關鍵參與者之訪談內容，本文建議臺灣桃園國際機場英文版網站應優先改善航班資訊之編排方式及檢索方式，及提升購物、飲食店家資訊之完整性；其次，色彩、字型、字體大小等視覺傳達介面優使性評估指標亦應納入改善項目，並落實各語言版本之一致性及內控機制之建立，以優化使用者對臺灣桃園國際機場英文版網站之使用體驗，進而提升使用者對臺灣桃園國際機場之信賴。此外，本研究期待公部門於推動電子化政府發展過程中，在追求行政效能及便民服務品質的同時，亦能提升對網站優使性的意識，進而協助政府評估網站使用效能，創造良好的網站使用體驗。 / Airports play a decisive role in the supply chain of aviation industry. As a gateway of one country, an international airport manifests a nation’s competitiveness through the service standard of its software and hardware facilities delivering to its external customers. Today, Internet has become a main media for people to pass on, to share and to acquire various pieces of information, which makes the official website of an international airport an important extending platform for the authority to conduct customer relationship management. Therefore, what an international airport website represents is not just the image of a certain airport, but also the facade of one country. Under this circumstance, how to meet the needs of external customers during their first reach of an airport website so as to increase their visit motivations has become a primary issue while webmasters designing webpages. In this study, the researcher chose English version websites of six international airports, including Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport, to conduct content analysis and website usability. The result shows that there are no significant differences among tested websites; however, after collecting usability test scores, participants’ opinions, and reviewing key actors interview, this thesis concludes and would suggest Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport to firstly improve the layout arrangement of flight information, retrieval method, and elevate the completeness of shop and dining information. Secondly, visual communicate interface, such as color, fonts, font size and so on, and content consistency among different language versions should be enhanced and an internal control mechanism, which aims at maintaining that consistency, should be built to utilize the user experience so as to advance the credibility of Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport. On top of that, this study expects to raise the awareness of website usability among all government sectors, who are developing and promoting e-government policy, to also include website usability into the core concept of webpage design while pursuing administrative efficiency and quality of citizen services and, furthermore, to assist Government to conduct website evaluation in order to create a smooth and customized user experience.

O Aeroporto Internacional Governador André Franco Montoro (GRU), São Paulo, depende inteiramente da água subterrânea para suprir sua demanda. Entretanto, a prática de extração excessiva, que aumenta continuamente para atender à demanda de um número cada vez maior de passageiros e às dificuldades envolvidas com a recarga natural do aqüífero, levou a Empresa Brasileira de Infraestrutura Aeroportuária (Infraero) a procurar outras fontes de abastecimento. Embora a busca de solução para o problema da escassez da água, passe pela opção de recarga gerenciada do aqüífero, a falta da experiência nacional nessa área restringe a tomada da decisão na adoção dessa prática no país. Objetivando contribuir com estudos de viabilidade técnica da recarga gerenciada de aqüíferos em geral e, em particular, do Aeroporto Internacional Governador André Franco Montoro, este trabalho tem o objetivo de verificar, em escala piloto, a capacidade do solo-aqüífero do aeroporto em tratar adequadamente o esgoto gerado localmente. Para atingir esse objetivo, uma área adequada foi selecionada entre as diversas avaliadas, para a construção de uma unidade piloto de recarga de aqüífero. No local selecionado, amostras indeformadas da camada não saturada foram coletadas, caracterizadas e, posteriormente, montadas em colunas experimentais especiais, pelas quais o esgoto foi infiltrado de maneira controlada. Como os resultados desta primeira fase experimental não foram adequadamente atendidos, foi decidido efetuar coletas de amostras indeformadas em uma segunda área do aeroporto, que indicou a existência de uma camada vadosa mais profunda, mas perfil de solo semelhante ao perfil anterior. Os ensaios de colunas foram efetuados com amostras de ambas as áreas, indicando que o solo superficial do aeroporto deverá ser eliminado, ou substituído por uma camada de areia grossa para permitir uma recarga gerenciada que permita a produção de águas com qualidade adequada para os usos preconizados. Os diferentes cenários utilizados nesta pesquisa envolveram a infiltração nas colunas de recarga com esgotos secundários produzidos no aeroporto, após passagem por duas lagoas de retenção, a infiltração do mesmo efluente tratado por um processo físico-químico de coagulação/floculação/sedimentação e pelo mesmo efluente das lagoas de retenção após tratamento por um sistema de membranas de ultrafiltração. Os resultados obtidos são considerados como resultados parciais, uma vez que toda a profundidade do aqüífero não foi utilizada e pelo fato de que, face às restrições acadêmicas vigentes o tempo disponível para a realização da pesquisa foi extremamente restringido. Entretanto, considera-se este trabalho como pioneiro, pelo fato dele se constituir na primeira pesquisa sobre recarga gerenciada no Brasil e, ainda, por fornecer subsídios teóricos e práticos para suportar outros estudos semelhantes que se farão necessários para compreender e promover a prática de recarga gerenciada de aqüíferos no Brasil. / The Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport, São Paulo, entirely depends on groundwater to meet its demand. However, excessive extraction practice which increase continuously in order to attend the demand of increasing number of passengers and the difficulty involved with natural recharge of its aquifer led the Federal Airport Administration Agency (Infraero) to search for other sources of water supply. Although the search for solution for water scarcity problem goes through managed aquifer recharge, lack of national experience in this area restricts decision making in adopting this practice in the country. Contributing to the technical feasibility studies of managed aquifer recharge in general and the Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport in particular, this research has the objective of verifying at the pilot scale level, the capacity of airport soil-aquifer in adequately treating wastewater generated locally. In order to reach this objective, an adequate location was selected within the alternatives evaluated for the construction of a pilot unit for aquifer recharge. Undeformed samples were collected from the unsaturated layer of the selected place, characterized and afterwards, recharged through special experimental columns with wastewater which was filtered in a controlled form. As the results of the first experimental phase were not adequately met, a decision was made to collect undeformed samples from a second location in the airport. The collection indicated the existence of deep unsaturated layer with the soil profile being similar to the profile of the soil layer from which the first samples were collected. The soil column tests were carried out with samples from both areas, indicating that superficial part of airport soil will be eliminated or substituted with a coarse sandy layer in order to permit a managed aquifer recharge which allows production of water that meets the quality of its required uses. Of the different scenarios verified in this research was infiltration of secondary wastewater produced at the airport through soil columns. Another was infiltration of wastewater after its pre-treatment by physicalchemical processes of coagulation/flocculation/sedimentation and still a third scenario, through pre-treatment of secondary effluent by ultrafiltration membrane. The results obtained are considered partial since the total aquifer depth was not used and the fact that academic restrictions limited excessively the time period of the research. However, considering this as a pioneer work, and the fact that it constitutes the first research about managed aquifer recharge in Brazil, and with it, bringing theoretical and practical contributions to support other similar studies which would be necessary in understanding and promoting managed aquifer recharge practice in Brazil.

Submitted by Fernanda Ciolfi (fernanda.ciolfi@puc-campinas.edu.br) on 2016-04-12T19:20:29Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Vilma Merli Palomar.pdf: 3969598 bytes, checksum: e20dcf8ee24b355530de8dcfbaee278b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-12T19:20:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Vilma Merli Palomar.pdf: 3969598 bytes, checksum: e20dcf8ee24b355530de8dcfbaee278b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-18 / This research aims to analyze the current situation of tourism in Campinas, the potential that the city offers and investigate the possible impacts of the expansion of Viracopos International Airport in this segment of activities. Aims to discuss the points of intersection between urbanism, public policy and tourism, based on the case study of the expansion of Viracopos International Airport in Campinas. With this goal presents the Viracopos International Airport at the same time as a strategic connection element between various modes of displacement taking into account other means of transport (such as road and rail interconnection) and as an urban equipment with the potential to bring about change significant in urban and tourist infrastructure Campinas. For such investigations, the tourist attractions of Campinas city will be focused as potential spaces for boosting tourism, taking into account their cultural relations linked to tourism and a brief study of the local identity and the construction of a new identity of marketing that incorporates the urban aspects involved. One purpose of this paper is to discuss the consequences, beneficial or evil, the transformation from Viracopos International Airport in the main airport portal in Latin America, both to become a real center for receiving and issuing tourist and dynamic socio-spatial City. We intend to complete this work with issues related to the subject matter with regard to management and public policies should be developed on the future of tourism in Campinas, and with the assurance that the expectations will be proposed to the council hardly they will be achieved if the government does not develop purposeful initiatives integrated to the different instances of municipal management to improve the quality of life of its residents. / A presente pesquisa tem como objetivo analisar a situa??o atual da atividade tur?stica de Campinas, as potencialidades que a cidade apresenta e investigar as poss?veis novas demandas da amplia??o do Aeroporto Internacional de Viracopos neste segmento de atividades. Pretende discorrer sobre os pontos de intersec??o entre o urbanismo, as pol?ticas p?blicas e o turismo, tendo como base o estudo de caso da amplia??o do Aeroporto Internacional de Viracopos no munic?pio de Campinas. Com este objetivo apresenta o Aeroporto Internacional de Viracopos ao mesmo tempo como um elemento estrat?gico de conex?o entre v?rias modalidades de deslocamento levando em considera??o outros meios de transporte (como o vi?rio e o ferrovi?rio de interliga??o) e como um equipamento urban?stico com potencial de produzir mudan?as significativas nas infraestruturas urbana e tur?stica de Campinas . Para tais investiga??es, os atrativos tur?sticos da cidade de Campinas ser?o enfocados como espa?os potenciais de dinamiza??o da atividade tur?stica, levando em considera??o suas rela??es culturais vinculadas ao turismo e um breve estudo sobre a identidade local e a constru??o de uma nova identidade de marketing que incorpore os aspectos urban?sticos envolvidos. Um dos objetivos deste trabalho ? discutir as consequ?ncias, ben?ficas ou perversas, da transforma??o do Aeroporto Internacional de Viracopos no principal portal aeroportu?rio da Am?rica Latina, tanto para se tornar um real centro de recep??o e emiss?o de turistas como para as din?micas s?cio espacial da cidade. Pretende-se concluir este trabalho com quest?es vinculadas ao objeto de estudo no que diz respeito ? gest?o e ?s pol?ticas p?blicas que devem ser aprofundados sobre o futuro do turismo em Campinas, e com a certeza de que as expectativas que ser?o propostas para o munic?pio dificilmente ser?o alcan?adas se o poder p?blico n?o desenvolver iniciativas propositivas integradas para as diferentes instancias da gest?o municipal para melhorar a qualidade de vida dos seus moradores.

Global mobility, wireless technology and networked society are transforming the airport territory. These changes (hard factors) have been analysed in airport planning and transportation studies (Koll-Schretzenmayr 2003; Banister 2003; Schaafsma 2003; Knippenberger &Wall 2010; Salewski & Michaelli 2011; Convenz & Thierstein ed. 2014 et al) and architecture and design (Edwards 1998; Blow 2005; Cuadra 2002; Uffelen 2012; Gensler 2013 et al). But design strategies focusing on the passenger experience (soft factors) have not yet been thoroughly assimilated by architecture and design. On the theoretical level this dissertation spans the analysis of current methodologies in social studies (e.g. Castells 1996; Gottdiener 2000; Cresswell 2006; Urry, 2007; Elliott & Urry 2010; Adey 2010 et al) and their relation to architectural and urban studies concepts for the airport. The latter includes the “Airport as City” (Güller & Güller 2000), “Aviopolis – A Book about Airports” (Fuller & Harley 2005) and “Aerotropolis” (Kassarda 2010). This dissertation also explores IT and aviation industry interests at the interface between technology and air travellers. In this light aviation industry research and solutions (Amadeus 2011, SITA 2013) are important to consider, as well the philosophy behind who travels and for what purpose (Sloterdijk 1998; Koolhaas 1998; Gottdiener 2000; Urry 2007; Birtchnell & Caletrio 2014 et al). Here, the author’s previous field research at Frankfurt International Airport is relevant. We live more mobile lifestyles, we work in hybrid spaces (Suoza 2006; Duffy 2010 et al), and we consequently need to share information and collaborate differently. Using constant travellers as a case study, the impact of physical and informational mobility on perceptions of and behavioural patterns in the airport can lead to a deeper understanding of mobile work and the air travel experience. New design strategies can be developed from research about constant travellers, and the results may improve their work and air travel experience. The author’s combination of design approaches from architecture and social science (sociology and psychology) methodologies can better address the real needs of constant travellers in hybrid workspaces. It is hoped that this dissertation will inspire airport architects and designers, interaction designers and the aviation industry to pay more attention to users’ needs in their design processes.

Master thesis is aiming to problematics of air transport and its impacts on regional development. First part of this thesis is dedicated to theoretical studying of aviation, aviation´s history, its impacts mainly on economics and environment. Next part of theoretical studying examines regional development, theoretical basis of regional development, how is it measured and which tools are being used for influencing regional development. Practical part is aiming on the importance of air transport for selected region, then it informs about similar airports. This is helpful for making an opinion how airport can influence a region. In the next part the program of regional development of selected region is analyzed and there are identified the most important points which are analyzed in the last part. The last part is trying to respond to the objectives of the thesis, which are evaluation of the impacts of aviation on regional development in selected region and quantification of these effects.

MACIEL, Wellington Ricardo Nogueira. O aeroporto de Fortaleza: usos e significados contemporâneos. Fortaleza-CE, 2006. 154 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Sociologia) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Ciências Sociais, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia, Fortaleza-CE, 2006. / Submitted by Maria Josineide Góis (josineide@ufc.br) on 2011-10-27T13:37:31Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2006_Dis_WRNogueira.pdf: 2141152 bytes, checksum: 6f09cd01cfb78ed02ee25cfa9fdebd73 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Josineide Góis(josineide@ufc.br) on 2011-10-27T13:39:09Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2006_Dis_WRNogueira.pdf: 2141152 bytes, checksum: 6f09cd01cfb78ed02ee25cfa9fdebd73 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2011-10-27T13:39:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2006_Dis_WRNogueira.pdf: 2141152 bytes, checksum: 6f09cd01cfb78ed02ee25cfa9fdebd73 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / The aim of this research is to analyze the contemporary processes of urban changes in the city of Fortaleza. We have as an empirical reference the Airport of Fortaleza which was built within the period of 1996 – 1998. We try to understand the various material and symbolic investments accomplished all around the Airport by the social actors (governmental representatives, tourist trade, architects, inhabitants of the surroundings and “topiqueiros”), who have the Airport as a reference for their social activities. The hypothesis defended in this research is that the successive amplifications/constructions of the Airport throughout the years have been acting in movements accomplished by people who live in the “surrounded areas” which demonstrate, partly, how the subjects have distinct power over the contemporary means of transportation. We even interpret the present-day airport as a partial aspect of the image of the tourist city which is granted to the city of Fortaleza, also as a landscape of power which seems to condense, very well, the present-day conflicts between market and place. We also intend to demonstrate that what the construction of equipments, which are considered as of international quality, such as the present-day airport, seems to illustrate, is one of the exigencies defended by the proponents of the so called urban strategic planning which have predominated among professionals and managers of the cities through decades. In the state of Ceará such strategy was begun more intensively in 1995, with the PRODETUR (An action Program which at the development of Tourism in the Northeast of Brazil). / Neste trabalho analiso os processos contemporâneos de mudança urbana na cidade de Fortaleza tendo como referente empírico o Aeroporto de Fortaleza, construído entre 1996 e 1998. Busco compreender os vários investimentos materiais e simbólicos realizados em torno do Aeroporto pelos atores sociais (representantes governamentais, trade turístico, arquiteto, moradores do “entorno” e “topiqueiros”) que o têm como referência para suas práticas sociais. A hipótese defendida nesta pesquisa é a de que as sucessivas ampliações/construções do Aeroporto ao longo dos anos têm atuado nos movimentos que moradores do “entorno” realizam, o que demonstra em parte como os sujeitos possuem poderes distintos sobre os deslocamentos contemporâneos. Interpreto ainda o atual Aeroporto como um aspecto parcial da imagem de cidade turística atribuída à Fortaleza e como uma paisagem de poder que parece condensar bem os conflitos atuais entre “mercado” e “lugar”. Pretendo demonstrar também que a construção de equipamentos considerados de qualidade internacional, assim como o atual Aeroporto parece ilustrar, é uma das exigências defendidas pelos proponentes do chamado planejamento urbano estratégico que passou a predominar entre profissionais e gestores das cidades pelo mundo há algumas décadas. No Estado do Ceará, essa estratégia teve início de forma mais intensa, em 1995, com a assinatura do Programa de Ação para o Desenvolvimento do Turismo no Nordeste – Prodetur.

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Le cadre de cette thèse est l'optimisation des opérations aéroportuaires. Nous nous intéressons à trois problèmes de gestion des avions dans un aéroport : l'affectation aux points de stationnement, le routage au sol entre les pistes et les points de stationnement, et l'ordonnancement des décollages et des atterrissages.Ce travail a été réalisée en collaboration étroite avec la société Amadeus. Nos approches ont été testées et validées avec des données réelles provenant d'aéroports européens.Nous proposons une formulation en Programme Linéaire en Nombres Entiers (PLNE) du problème d'affectation aux points de stationnement. Nous montrons que trouver une affectation réalisable est un problème NP-Complet et nous proposons diverses améliorations visant à réduire le temps de résolution de notre modèle. Nous obtenons ainsi des solutions de meilleure qualité que celles de la littérature, tout en conservant un temps de calcul raisonnable.Le problème de routage au sol est modélisé en adaptant un PLNE de la littérature. Nous montrons que les indicateurs de l'industrie sont en contradiction avec l'objectif de réduction du temps de roulage, et donc des émissions de pollutions. Nous proposons de nouveaux indicateurs basés sur l'heure de décollage, et non sur l'heure de départ du point de stationnement.Enfin, nous nous intéressons à l'intégration de l'ordonnancement à la piste avec le routage au sol. Nous montrons qu'une meilleure intégration permet de réduire le temps de roulage et d'améliorer la gestion de la piste. Nous proposons une heuristique séquentielle basée sur une modélisation en PLNE innovante du problème d'ordonnancement à la piste. Nous montrons que cette heuristique fournit des solutions de bonne qualité en temps raisonnable, contrairement à l'approche exacte de la littérature. / In this thesis, we address the optimization of aircraft ground operations at airports, focusing on three main optimization problems: the stand allocation, the ground routing between stands and runways, and the sequencing of take-offs and landings.These works result from a close collaboration with Amadeus. Our approaches have been tested and validated with real data from European airports.The stand allocation problem is formulated as a Mixed Integer Program (MIP). We show that finding an allocation plan respecting operational requirements is NP-Complete and we strengthen our model in several directions. We obtain better solutions than the literature withing reasonable computation times for an industrial application.The ground routing problem is modeled by a MIP formulation adapted from the literature. We show that the main indicators of the industry are in contradiction with the objective of reducing taxi times and therefore air pollution. We propose new indicators based on take-off times instead of push back times.Lastly, we focus on the integration of the runway sequencing with the ground routing. We highlight that a better integration allows to reduce taxi times while improving the management of the runway. We propose a sequential heuristic based on an innovative MIP formulation of the runway sequencing problem. This heuristic is shown to provide high quality solutions in reasonable computation times, unlike the exact approach from the literature.

The metropolis is a dynamical and complex area, which important role played by it is to meet demands for services, trade, education and infrastructure. The expansion of the metropolis becomes a concern of many scholars, since it is directly linked to the growth of smaller cities, which can still be affected by the proliferation of slums and the lack of infrastructure, dscharacterizing the livelihood of small cities, which enables emergence of new territoriality. The need for new areas to permit the urban growth led to the metropolitan city of Belo Horizonte to the city of Confins to start the construction project of the Tancredo Neves International Airport, in the 1980s. This factor has led to many political conflicts and environmental problems due to the distance of the airport in relation to the metropolis and as a region in which predominates the karst relay. However, despite of these adversities, the Airport was achieved. The study area of this work is located in the north of the capital, the city of Confins, where is installed the Tancredo Neves International Airport. This region tends to introduce a new dynamism with important implications and consequences on the livelihood of residents, triggered by the urbanization process that focused on site. New government projects targeted to this region are being planned and executed, as the creation of a road network to facilitate access to the airport and the proposition of creating a technology park. The goal is to study the influence of the construction of this urban equipment in the small town of Confins. For this, we intend to highlight the specificities of the place, consider the lifestyle of the urban population and the improvements resulting from the government and private investments deployed in the city. The rationale of this study is based on a lack of specific work related to the municipality of Confins and the influence to the development of the place. It is understood that in this case, the process of urbanization is represented by a dynamic metropolis, thus, understanding the urban dynamism contributes to the analysis and discussion of issues of the place and more than that, for the formation of a meaning on the development of small towns through the construction of important works for the integration and development of the country. / A metrópole é uma área dinâmica e complexa, cujo papel importante desempenhado por ela é o de atender às demandas por prestação de serviços, comércio, educação e infraestrutura. A expansão das metrópoles torna-se a preocupação de muitos estudiosos, pois está diretamente ligada ao crescimento dos pequenos municípios, que podem ainda ser afetados pela proliferação de favelas e a ausência de infraestrutura, descaracterizando o modo de vida das pequenas cidades, o que possibilita o surgimento de novas territorialidades. A necessidade de novas áreas para viabilizar o crescimento urbano levou as forças políticas e econômicas da metrópole Belo Horizonte ao município de Confins para iniciar o projeto de construção do Aeroporto Internacional Tancredo Neves, na década de 1980. Tal fator gerou muitos conflitos políticos e problemas ambientais devido à distância do mesmo em relação à metrópole e por ser uma região na qual predomina o relevo cárstico. Porém, apesar dessas adversidades, o Aeroporto foi instalado nesta localidade. A área de estudo do presente trabalho localiza-se ao norte da capital mineira, no município de Confins, onde se encontra instalado o Aeroporto Internacional Tancredo Neves. Essa região tende a apresentar um novo dinamismo com importantes implicações e desdobramentos sobre o modo de vida dos moradores, desencadeado pelo processo de urbanização que incidiu no local. Novos projetos governamentais direcionados a essa região estão sendo previstos e executados, como a criação de uma malha viária para facilitar o acesso ao Aeroporto e a proposição de se criar um parque tecnológico. O objetivo deste trabalho é estudar a influência da construção deste equipamento urbano na pequena cidade de Confins. Para isso, pretende-se evidenciar as especificidades do lugar, analisar o modo de vida da população e as melhorias urbanas decorrentes dos investimentos governamentais e privados implantados na cidade. A justificativa desse estudo baseia-se numa ausência de trabalhos específicos relacionados ao município de Confins e à influência da grande obra pública para o desenvolvimento do lugar. Entende-se que neste caso o processo de urbanização é representado pela dinâmica de uma metrópole, desse modo, compreender tal dinamismo urbano contribui para a análise e a discussão acerca das questões do lugar e, mais do que isso, para a formação de um significado sobre o desenvolvimento das pequenas cidades a partir da construção de obras importantes para a integração e desenvolvimento do País. / Mestre em Geografia

O Aeroporto Internacional Governador André Franco Montoro (GRU), São Paulo, depende inteiramente da água subterrânea para suprir sua demanda. Entretanto, a prática de extração excessiva, que aumenta continuamente para atender à demanda de um número cada vez maior de passageiros e às dificuldades envolvidas com a recarga natural do aqüífero, levou a Empresa Brasileira de Infraestrutura Aeroportuária (Infraero) a procurar outras fontes de abastecimento. Embora a busca de solução para o problema da escassez da água, passe pela opção de recarga gerenciada do aqüífero, a falta da experiência nacional nessa área restringe a tomada da decisão na adoção dessa prática no país. Objetivando contribuir com estudos de viabilidade técnica da recarga gerenciada de aqüíferos em geral e, em particular, do Aeroporto Internacional Governador André Franco Montoro, este trabalho tem o objetivo de verificar, em escala piloto, a capacidade do solo-aqüífero do aeroporto em tratar adequadamente o esgoto gerado localmente. Para atingir esse objetivo, uma área adequada foi selecionada entre as diversas avaliadas, para a construção de uma unidade piloto de recarga de aqüífero. No local selecionado, amostras indeformadas da camada não saturada foram coletadas, caracterizadas e, posteriormente, montadas em colunas experimentais especiais, pelas quais o esgoto foi infiltrado de maneira controlada. Como os resultados desta primeira fase experimental não foram adequadamente atendidos, foi decidido efetuar coletas de amostras indeformadas em uma segunda área do aeroporto, que indicou a existência de uma camada vadosa mais profunda, mas perfil de solo semelhante ao perfil anterior. Os ensaios de colunas foram efetuados com amostras de ambas as áreas, indicando que o solo superficial do aeroporto deverá ser eliminado, ou substituído por uma camada de areia grossa para permitir uma recarga gerenciada que permita a produção de águas com qualidade adequada para os usos preconizados. Os diferentes cenários utilizados nesta pesquisa envolveram a infiltração nas colunas de recarga com esgotos secundários produzidos no aeroporto, após passagem por duas lagoas de retenção, a infiltração do mesmo efluente tratado por um processo físico-químico de coagulação/floculação/sedimentação e pelo mesmo efluente das lagoas de retenção após tratamento por um sistema de membranas de ultrafiltração. Os resultados obtidos são considerados como resultados parciais, uma vez que toda a profundidade do aqüífero não foi utilizada e pelo fato de que, face às restrições acadêmicas vigentes o tempo disponível para a realização da pesquisa foi extremamente restringido. Entretanto, considera-se este trabalho como pioneiro, pelo fato dele se constituir na primeira pesquisa sobre recarga gerenciada no Brasil e, ainda, por fornecer subsídios teóricos e práticos para suportar outros estudos semelhantes que se farão necessários para compreender e promover a prática de recarga gerenciada de aqüíferos no Brasil. / The Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport, São Paulo, entirely depends on groundwater to meet its demand. However, excessive extraction practice which increase continuously in order to attend the demand of increasing number of passengers and the difficulty involved with natural recharge of its aquifer led the Federal Airport Administration Agency (Infraero) to search for other sources of water supply. Although the search for solution for water scarcity problem goes through managed aquifer recharge, lack of national experience in this area restricts decision making in adopting this practice in the country. Contributing to the technical feasibility studies of managed aquifer recharge in general and the Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport in particular, this research has the objective of verifying at the pilot scale level, the capacity of airport soil-aquifer in adequately treating wastewater generated locally. In order to reach this objective, an adequate location was selected within the alternatives evaluated for the construction of a pilot unit for aquifer recharge. Undeformed samples were collected from the unsaturated layer of the selected place, characterized and afterwards, recharged through special experimental columns with wastewater which was filtered in a controlled form. As the results of the first experimental phase were not adequately met, a decision was made to collect undeformed samples from a second location in the airport. The collection indicated the existence of deep unsaturated layer with the soil profile being similar to the profile of the soil layer from which the first samples were collected. The soil column tests were carried out with samples from both areas, indicating that superficial part of airport soil will be eliminated or substituted with a coarse sandy layer in order to permit a managed aquifer recharge which allows production of water that meets the quality of its required uses. Of the different scenarios verified in this research was infiltration of secondary wastewater produced at the airport through soil columns. Another was infiltration of wastewater after its pre-treatment by physicalchemical processes of coagulation/flocculation/sedimentation and still a third scenario, through pre-treatment of secondary effluent by ultrafiltration membrane. The results obtained are considered partial since the total aquifer depth was not used and the fact that academic restrictions limited excessively the time period of the research. However, considering this as a pioneer work, and the fact that it constitutes the first research about managed aquifer recharge in Brazil, and with it, bringing theoretical and practical contributions to support other similar studies which would be necessary in understanding and promoting managed aquifer recharge practice in Brazil.