Factors considered in airport design affecting airport sustainability

Abstract

At present, business development of each country has been greatly expanded, leading to various infrastructure development. Airport is one of the required infrastructures. Nevertheless, in the development, natural resources are consumed in. large quantities, which reflected unsustainability. The vital beginning for airport development is airport design, which can include various sustainable approaches and activities such as improving and reprising equipment for effective usage maintenance. However, from a literature review, there are few studies on factors considered in airport design affecting airport sustainability. Hence, the research aims to identify such the factors via survey research. The data were gathered through a questionnaire asking the opinions of airport. practitioners, namely, strategic managers of airport companies, designers, and contractors. Then, the data were analyzed to (1) test the structure of factors and (2) find the influence of the factors. on airport sustainability using structural equation modeling, SEM. The results showed that all the factors could be structured into 5 groups with their relative weights of importance: “factors related to taxiway- runway” (22.09%), “factors related to maintenance” (20.67%), “factors related to airport location” (19.48%), “factors related to terminal” (19.00%) and: “factors related to surrounding area” (18.76%). Additionally, factors indicating airport sustainability were (with their weight) “economics” (34.56%), "Society" (33.18%), and “environment” (32.26%). The level of influence of the design factors on airport in 0.80. The really of the research can he used as a guideline for designers to include factors considered in airport design, which support sustainable airport development.