Counting Aircraft Operations at Non-Towered Airports (2007) / Chapter Skim
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The following literature was reviewed for this research project and is provided here in no particular order. LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Information on airport operations was used by the state of Louisiana in 1985 to determine fuel requirements and fuel storage capacity needs for fuel sales to aircraft and to determine space requirements for terminal buildings (1, p.
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27 INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY Indiana has been involved in counting and estimating aircraft operations at non-towered airports for some time. In July 1985, Indiana State University (ISU)
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28 tape recorder acoustical counters was chosen "because of their accuracy and low maintenance costs" (8, p.
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29 non-towered airports were paired with similar towered airports, and the data were compared for seasonal variations. This analysis revealed that the variations in operations at towered airports throughout the year were not similar to the variations at nontowered airports.
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30 now historic event on the aviation industry was substantial and could have affected the outcome of this study, which assumed that neither the economic downturn nor the air traffic controller strike affected the results of the research (12, p.
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31 research used regression analysis in two stages to estimate operations at non-towered airports as a function of airport characteristics. In the first stage, equations were estimated for a group of small towered airports.
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32 can be expensive. A statistical sample can greatly reduce the cost.
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33 Non-Towered New Jersey Airports, Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission, Philadelphia, Pa.
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