Reducing the Negative Environmental Impact of Winter Airport Maintenance through Its Model Design and Simulation.

Peter Koščák,Tomáš Puškáš,Iveta Vajdová,Mateusz Ojciec,Darina Matisková,Štefan Berežný,Ivan Koblen

doi:10.3390/ijerph17041296

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Abstract

Airports are one of the segments within air transport and their serviceability ensures air transport efficiency. However, airports are among the largest contributors to the negative environmental impact of this kind of transport. Individual activities at airports leave a negative environmental footprint. By optimizing processes, it is possible to reduce the negative environmental impacts of these subjects. Airport winter maintenance is one of the important activities accompanying airports in geographical areas where winter season is expected due to the climate zone and weather conditions. Effective winter maintenance ensures optimal airport operation and has a significant impact on safety. However, the winter maintenance of the airport causes an excessive burden on the environment around the airports, in particular by applying de-icing agents to aircraft and movement areas, or by emissions and noise caused by equipment for snow and ice removal. The aim of the present article is to optimize the winter maintenance of the airport, namely the deployment of winter maintenance equipment with respect to meteorological conditions while maintaining the priorities for winter maintenance between individual airport areas. The aim of optimization is to achieve the saving of maintenance time and reduce the negative environmental impact of winter maintenance by effectively deploying equipment and devices.

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Transport is one of the basic attributes that ensure the modern society, economy, and living standards of people to function properly [1]
Since winter maintenance takes into account the priorities for winter maintenance between individual airport areas, these areas can be cleaned separately
The general nature of the algorithm allows setting the number of runways, taxiways, connecting routes and the number of aprons of the simulated airport

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Transport is one of the basic attributes that ensure the modern society, economy, and living standards of people to function properly [1]. Air transport is one of the most important elements of the world transport system [1]. It is one of the fastest-growing sectors. This is evident by many technological changes and innovations and by the predictions of the development of the use of passenger and freight air transport. In order to ensure the efficiency of this transport sector, it is needed that all components that enter the operating cycle in a certain way work without failures. Public Health 2020, 17, 1296; doi:10.3390/ijerph17041296 www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph

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