Winter months have a huge impact on operations of an airport. Snow and ice may endanger the safety of starting and landing aircraft. Normal airport activities have to be supplemented by winter operations to ensure safety of the air traffic and to avoid delays in the schedule.
This paper investigates those additional activities which have to be planed during the winter months at an airport. Hereby, snow removal and aircraft de-icing are examined in more detail. After explaining the respective winter operation, real life implementation examples of a German airport are shown. Furthermore, aspects of the respective winter operation suited for optimization are discussed. Afterwards, coordination of winter operations is looked at. Ultimately, an outlook is given on how coordinating airport activities may be supplemented by the use of smarter information systems.
Table of contents
I. List of Abbreviations
II. Introduction
i. Motivation for Winter Operations
ii. The Scope of Winter Operations
iii. Literature Sources
III. Winter Operations Activities
i. Observable and Background Activities
ii. Snow Removal
i. Importance of Snow Removal
ii. Methods of Snow Removal
iii. Procedure and Vehicles
iv. Snow Removal at Munich Airport
v. Snow Removal Research Overview
vi. Path Scheduling of Snow Ploughs
vii. Path Scheduling Approach Applicability
iii. Aircraft De-Icing
i. Importance of Aircraft De-Icing
ii. Procedures of Aircraft De-Icing
iii. De-Icing Fluids
iv. Techniques of Aircraft De-Icing
v. Aircraft De-Icing at Munich Airport
vi. Aircraft De-Icing Research Overview
vii. Efficient Scheduling Research
viii. Efficient Scheduling Approach Applicability
IV. Coordination of Winter Operations
i. Snow Plan
ii. Information Systems at Munich Airport
V. The Future of Winter Operations
i. Current Information Systems State
ii. Airport Winter Information System Implementation
iii. Understand Airport Interdependencies
VI. BibliographyVI
VII. Picture CreditsX
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