Planning and Design of Airports

While every attempt was
made to keep to the traditional structure of the book and to preserve
the theoretical strengths for which it is most well known, much of the
material in the previous edition required more replacement than
simply being made current. Within this latest edition the reader will
find, for example, new and entirely different strategies to estimate
required runway lengths and their associated required pavement
thicknesses. This text attempts to maintain the flavor of previous
editions while understanding, for example, that airport navigational
aids of the previous century are becoming all but obsolete, in favor
of a digital, satellite-based communication and navigational system,
and that airport financing strategies are in a revolutionary state, given
anticipated changes to federal aviation funding mechanisms.
Updating this edition has, in fact, been a continuous “race against
time,” as important changes to the aviation system were constantly
occurring during the process.