Airports have economic, environmental, and social impacts on communities. Many of these impacts are influenced by airport management decisions. Airport sustainability may be thought of as having four primary areas: environmental, economic, operational, and social. The objective of this study is to understand better the adoption of social sustainability practices in small hub airport planning in the United States. The small hub airports in this study participated in the Federal Aviation Administration Airport Improvement Program for sustainability planning and have published their sustainability plans as either standalone sustainability management plans or integrated sustainable master plans. Plans from the six airports were gathered and examined as part of an exploratory case study analysis. The findings show that small hub airports do not use the same framework or select the same practices for social sustainability. Social sustainability practices for these six small hub airports focus on four stakeholder categories: passengers and travelers, employees, communities and local businesses, and concessionaires and tenants.
Using a systematic literature review research methodology, researchers identified 22 scholarly journal articles published between January 2004 to May 2020, from five engineering, science, technology, and education databases. The objective of this study is to systematically explore the gender gap in collegiate aviation and aerospace education and highlight some of the factors that may be contributing to the gender gap in aviation and aerospace college programs. In addition, the researchers provide an in-depth analysis showing the research areas covered in the existing literature on the topic of gender imbalance and perceptions of female students in collegiate aviation education. Two research questions were developed, and a search strategy was developed. Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) was used to search, screen, and set inclusion and exclusion criteria for the scholarly journal articles. The 22 scholarly journals were analyzed thematically. Results show that lack of organized mentorship and challenges in recruitment and retention of female students are among the areas that need more attention to bridge the gender gap in collegiate aviation programs. Other themes include persisting gender stereotypes and masculine culture in traditionally male-dominated fields. Based on the findings of this study, the researchers recommend a follow-up study focusing on the analysis of the trends in the number of women enrolled in collegiate aviation and aerospace programs.
Sustainability is a topical issue in the global air transport sector. There is consensus among global air transport stakeholders that the current air transport systems will not be sustainable in the future. As such, there is a call for action to develop more sustainable air transport infrastructure including airports, airlines, air traffic control, air navigation systems and other supporting infrastructure. Among the challenges aviation and aerospace managers face today is defining sustainability. One of the most widely used definitions of sustainability was developed by the United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) also known as the Brundtland Commission who defined Sustainability as the ability to meet our current needs without comprising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Notably, there is no one universally accepted definition of sustainability specifically for the air transport or airport sectors.Globally, various government agencies and transport organizations have dedicated resources to the development of sustainable airport infrastructure. For instance, in 2010, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the United States civil aviation industry regulator launched the sustainable master plan Airport Improvement Program (AIP) grant to fund airports of all sizes across the United States to support development of airport sustainability planning documents. The first of its kind, the FAA sustainable master plan AIP grant has funded 44 airports in the United States as of 2022. Of these, six airports are classified as small hub airports in the United States National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS). Small hub airports are primary commercial airports that handle more than 10,000 enplanements annually, similar in operation to most commercial airports located in major African Cities like Nairobi,
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