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60 AIRPORT ADMINISTRATION... are several useful publications which, emanating from the Inter- national Air Transport Association, can be obtained from the IATA Superintendent of Documents at 1060 University Street, Montreal 3, Quebec. The Airport and the Community is an IATA pamphlet written by members of the staff of the Economics and Statistical Office. It summarizes the advantages which accrue to a community in whose area an airport is established by way of income, employment and industrial development potential. It is intended both for the planner and the public speaker. Descriptive coverage of various airports is given in J. H. Stroud's Famous Airports of the World (Muller 1956), though John W. R. Taylor's Airlines and Airports of the World (Transatlantic Arts Inc, 1962) is much fuller. The most definitive treatment of administra- tion is still the American Air Transportation: its policies and practices (Wiley, 1952), by J. L. Nicholson. Two important special studies are: Lynn Bollinger's and Arthur Tully's Personal Aircraft Business at Airports and Lynn Bollinger's and others' Terminal Airport Financing and Management, both published by the Division of Research of Harvard University's Graduate School of Business Administration in 1948 and 1946 respectively. Many individual airports have their own descriptive publicity brochures, for example that issued by the Manchester City Infor- mation Bureau to describe Ringway Airport. There is also M. Allward's and R. McLeavy's pamphlet London's Airports, published in 1962 by Ian Allen Ltd. The problems of using English as the lingua franca of aviation are dealt with comprehensively by W. S. Barry's The Language of Aviation (Chatto and Windus, 1962). This is a manual of procedures and standardized drills for airport practice and air traffic control procedures designed to assist in the creation of an English language standard for airport and airline management. Engineering and Planning Aspects—Standard Works Because of the absence of any recent detailed studies from British sources it is once again necessary to turn to American sources for the principal standard works, though in both British and American general reference works on Civil Engineering there are good sections relating to airports. For planners and designers the notes provided in the IATA pamphlet Airport Building and Aprons serves as a handy introduction to such problems as fixed servicing installations, boarding systems and terminal design. The fullest British treatment of airport engineering is in pages 115-144 of Vol 4 of J. Comrie's Civil Engineering Reference Book (Butterworth, 1962), this section comprising an article by E. V. Finn on "Airports and Airfields." Another general reference book on engineering with a detailed section on airports is R. G. Hennes' and M. I. Ekse's Fundamentals of Transportation Engineering (McGraw- Hill, 1955). The most comprehensive individual source is R. Horonjeff's Planning and Design of Airports (McGraw-Hill, 1962). From 1942 to 1948 the Road Research Laboratory produced in collaboration with the Air Ministry Aerodrome Abstracts, which was published as a supplement to the Journal of the Institution of Civil Engineers. More recently the Laboratory has noted a number of important articles and reports on airfield construction and use problems in its monthly Road Abstracts, Vol 1,1964, available from HM Stationery Office. Statistics The Ministry of Aviation produces a monthly type- writer-script bulletin detailing traffic movements, both passengers and aircraft, into and out of the airports of the United Kingdom. Its title is Activity at United Kingdom and Channel Island Aero- dromes, and it is freely available from the Ministry of Aviation, Main Buildings, Whitehall, London SW1. The statistics given relate to the activity at the 40 principal airports handling passenger traffic and are given both individually for each airport and in summary form for London's airports as a group, Channel Island airports as a group and for other British airports as a group. The statistics are rendered in physical terms and there are seven columns of figures: total aircraft movements; air transport movements; total passengers handled; terminal passenger movements; transit passenger movements; freight (in short tons) set down and picked up; and mail (in short tons) set down and picked up. The MoA also issues a broadsheet commenting upon trends discernible from the statistics. The Ministry is also responsible for the compilation of the trading FLIGHT International, 14 January (965 accounts and balance sheets for the State-owned airports; these are compiled in separate series for each of the Groups 1-4 of such airports. Standard Specifications Several British Standards specifications refer directly or indirectly to airports, usually in respect of lighting standards or runway strengths. Descriptive abstracts of these specifications, indexed by subjects, appear in the annual publication British Standards Yearbook. The International Civil Aviation Organization series, Annexes to the Convention on Civil Aviation are, in effect, forms of standard or codes of recommended practice. Annex 14, first published in 1958, refers to airport matters and is revised frequently. Patents Any new patents of significance to airport planning and design matters are reported in abstract form in Index Aeronauticus (HMSO monthly). Report Literature The principal series of reports which deal with airport affairs, among other things, is the Ministry of Aviation CAP series, details of which are to be found in the HMSO Sectional List of Government Publications No 48. Typical examples of reports in this series are: CAP 132—Planning of Air Stations for Single-engined Helicopters; CAP 145—Report of the London Airport Development Committee; and CAP 173—Report of the Committee on the Planning of Helicopter Stations in the London Area. Other Government departments have also issued reports con- cerned with airport design and safety. These are best traced by using the HMSO annual bibliography Government Publications: Consolidated List. Examples of such reports are: Fire Research Station—The Fire Hazards of Fuelling in the Open (Fire Research Technical Paper Series No 1,1951); and Road Research Laboratory —The Distribution of Moisture in Soils at Overseas Airfields (Road Research Technical Papers No 58). The International Civil Aviation Organization's publications programme includes many special reports on various topics, inclu- ding airport operation. These publications are available from HMSO in Great Britain and are listed in that office's annual publication International Organization Publications; they are also listed in the ICAO Sales List, available from ICAO at 1080 Univer- sity Street, Montreal, Quebec 3, or from HMSO at PO Box 569, London SE1. Libraries and Information Services The first source to consult for most problems affecting airport operation and administration should be the Aerodrome Owners Association, of Artillery Man- sions, Victoria Street, London SW1. Although its first duty must obviously be to its members the Association can usually be relied upon to supply any information not detrimental to its members' interests. There are two public libraries which have special collections relating to airport administration. These two have built up such collections as part of their responsibilities under the schemes for co-operative purchasing of British books which are carried out by certain groups of libraries. These collections are available for loan, through accredited libraries, on a nation-wide basis. The two libraries are Burnley Public Library, Grimshaw Street, Burnley; and Penge Public Library, Penge, Kent. Other libraries are those of the learned societies (e.g., the Royal Aeronautical Society) and companies or corporations (e.g., BEA with its Engineering Base Library). In most cases, however, reasonable facilities are made available to non-members and details of the scope and availability of such collections can be checked by consulting ASLIB Directory (ASLIB, 1957). Consultants Interavia ABC, a massive annual aviation directory, gives consultants' addresses on a world-wide basis for all aspects of aviation, including airport design, planning and operation. This same directory also has a list of airport construction specialists. British firms specializing in engineering consultancy in respect of airports are listed in the Consulting Engineers' Who's Who and Yearbook, which is available in most public reference libraries. Information of this kind is also readily available from the various professional associations, such as the Association of Consulting Engineers, Abbey House, 2 Victoria Street, London SW1; the Royal Institute of Architects, 66 Portland Place, London Wl; the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, 12 Great George Street. Parliament Square, London SW1; and the Incorporated Association of Architects and Surveyors, 29 Belgrave Square, London SW1. The Institute of Transport Aviation administers a considerable consultancy service on behalf of its members, dealing principally with planning and organization of ground services.
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