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5 Operations and Performance: Airports, Ground Transportation, and Air Traffic Management
5 Operations and Performance: Airports, Ground Transportation, and Air Traffic Management
Pages 31-38
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The session's first speaker was Jeffrey Brown, the aviation chief operating officer for the Port of Seattle. In this role, he leads the aviation planning, capital programs, facilities and infrastructure, art program, and airport building departments for the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA)
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Next, Brown spoke about travel attitudes, referring to a study carried out by Gensler, a global design and architecture firm.1 Gensler focuses on, among many other areas, airport design. The study asked participants which parts of the air travel journey they are most concerned with.
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LIMITING TRANSMISSION RISKS IN AIRPORTS Srinivasan leads a multidisciplinary project, Viral Infection Propagation Through Air Travel (VIPRA) , whose goal, he said, is to ensure social distancing without disrupting human activities.
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In short, he said, "You can get a lot of things wrong, but if you wear an N95 mask, you can eliminate almost all risk." Srinivasan listed some of the steps taken by Tallahassee International Airport, as an example of pandemic preparation or other emergency airport preparations. In preparing for such disasters as hurricanes, Ebola, and biological attacks, Tallahassee International collected N95 masks and other personal protective equipment (PPE)
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To meet those projections and recover from the COVID pandemic, Usackas said, the global air travel industry will need to take a dual approach. First, it must recover well from the challenges of the COVID period and get back to its normal pattern of innovation and growth.
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As he mentioned in his talk, SEA was not able to locate the rental car facilities in the main terminal because the terminal did not have the necessary communications infrastructure for car rentals. Adding such infrastructure could help those renting cars in a future pandemic avoid taking a shuttle to a remote car lot.
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Has the COVID pandemic changed the structure of the aerospace business in these countries because it forced out the weak actors? Usackas answered that there have not yet been major failures in the European air transportation sector, mainly because of historically unprecedented government support of many companies.
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In closing the session, Lacher asked each panelist for one key lesson from the response to the COVID pandemic that will help in preparing for future pandemics. Brown answered that profit should never take priority over passenger safety.
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