Abstract
The aviation industry is a prominent contributor to economic development. The existence of an airport hub that provides a worldwide transportation network generates economic growth, creates jobs, and facilitates international trade and tourism. This industry also helps in connecting different continents, countries, and cultures. This study utilizes the Data Envelopment Analysis models Charnes, Cooper, and Rhodes (CCR), Banker, Charnes, and Cooper (BCC), Slacks-Based Measure (SBM), and Epsilon Based Measure (EBM) in analyzing and evaluating the operational performance of the 21 major airports runway design during the years of 2016–2019 using the data of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) air transport statistics. The objective of this paper is to assess the efficiency of various airport runway configurations based on input factors such as number of runways, dimension of runways, airport area, and output factors such as annual number of flights and annual number of passengers. In the four applied models, the results indicated London Heathrow Airport (LHR) and Munich International Airport (MUC) are efficient in utilizing the runway during the considered periods. Surprisingly, airports in the Asian continent with a parallel runway design are more efficient than in North America and Europe. This study can be a valuable reference for operation managers in evaluating and benchmarking the performance of an airport with different types of runway configurations. Moreover, it can be used by decision-makers, investors, stakeholders, policymakers, private companies, and government agencies as a guideline suitable for an airport.
Highlights
Airports are critical to a country’s economic growth
The findings indicate the general overview of the aviation industry from a worldwide perspective based on the performance, existence of the airport hub, location of the airport, and the runway configuration design of the 21 major airports
International Airport (NRT), and Kansai International Airport (KIX) continuously improved their efficiency every year. These results indicate that London Heathrow Airport (LHR) and Munich International Airport (MUC) can be benchmarked airports in terms of the runway configuration, the number of runways, and ability to withstand the volume of air traffic
Summary
Airports are critical to a country’s economic growth. The expansion of airports has coincided with the political and social environment in which airport organizations interact with each other [1]. Airports establish the foundation of the civil aviation industry which has developed immensely in terms of number, size, and complexity. Companies such as Airbus and Boeing continue to design or improve new aircraft that corresponds to the need for longer runways and bigger terminal buildings in the airport. The advancement of technology on aircraft will have a huge significance on the growth of the airports in terms of the length of runways, the configuration of the runways, landing aids, taxiways, size of terminal buildings, size of ground transportation, and airport hubs. Airports are usually affected by economic development. Such increased economic development in a region often results in the expansion of existing airports as well as the construction of new ones
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