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Rietveld, Jip (author), de Vries, Rolf (author), de Boer, Jaap (author), Hondelink, Dieuwer (author)
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol has 5 runways, each of which can be used for take-off or landing of aeroplanes. The weather heavily influences which runway configuration air traffic control might pick. Airport Forecasting Service (AFOS) predicts which configuration of runways works most efficiently given a set of expected weather conditions and the...
bachelor thesis 2019
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Ceulemans, B. (author)
Currently, only one Standard Instrument Departure (SID) track and one flight procedure is used per runway departure fix combination. In contrast to tailored arrivals, the potential benefit of tailored departures has been left relatively undiscovered. The research objective is to quantify the potential benefit of tailored SID-s and profile...
master thesis 2016
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Kallen, N.A. (author)
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol expects growing cargo volumes in the future. At the same time, due to the expansion of passenger terminals, the cargo handling terminals at Schiphol are relocated and bundled on a smaller area at AAS South-East. The question is: how to handle increasing cargo volumes on a smaller area? One of the opted means to reach a...
master thesis 2015
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Breeuwer, J. (author)
In the near future, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol possibly wants to open a terminal that will take care of the airport handling process in a sustainable, innovative and user-friendly way. Moreover, the passengers and employees should be made aware, in a pleasant way, of the sustainable nature of the airport handling process of this terminal. The...
master thesis 2012
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Dijkstra, Jorn (author)
Using Schiphol’s Security Scanner is confusing for a lot of passengers. Therefore, security agents currently have to fully take on the task of guiding the passenger through the Scanner. This repetitive task in the high volume environment of Schiphol security leads to physical and mental exhaustion which results in frustration, and is projected...
master thesis 2017
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De Moes, A.F.A. (author)
Travelling through airports can be quite a stressful experience for passengers. Airlines, such as KLM, want to make the journey of their passengers through airports as comfortable as possible. This thesis proposes an indoor localization system for airlines called AirLoc. The research question was: "Which airport specific indoor localization...
master thesis 2017
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Arkesteijn, Laura (author)
This thesis has the goal to improve the commercial wayfinding at Schiphol. Commercial wayfinding entails tertiary wayfinding activities, which are not related to the travel process (shopping, eating/drinking, relaxing), whereas functional wayfinding gives information about passenger activities related to the airport process. Individuals can find...
master thesis 2021
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Weterings, P.B. (author)
This master thesis considers the queuing issues at the KLM Departures area at Amsterdam Schiphol airport in order to improve passenger comfort and journey efficiency. The Author puts forward that not resource capacity, but rather passenger flow area use can often be considered the cause of queue forming and over-crowding. Also, that in...
master thesis 2012
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Vervoort, A.L.H. (author)
With the rise of self-services at airports, time has come to take the next step in optimizing KLM’s passenger ground process at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport (AAS). In the current non-Schengen departure process at Schiphol the various touch points that a passenger encounters in the process do not communicate with each other and there is no...
master thesis 2015
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Van Remoortere, C.J.G. (author)
Schiphol staat binnen Europa op een vierde plaats bij het aantal verwerkte passagiersen vliegbewegingen. Om deze positie in de toekomst te handhaven en tegemoet te komen aan de vervoervraag zijn ontwikkelingsplannen op korte, middellange en lange termijn opgesteld. De plannen op korte en middellange termijn bestaan uit twee soorten plannen. Deze...
master thesis 2000
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Mohar, Hana (author)
The thesis explores the site of Niuewe Meer in the context of the near future of 2050. The research deals with the new urban phenomena of airport cities - their urban qualities and the issues they pose for development of expanding city borders. On the case of a new passenger driven typology - the airport hospital, it investigates how future...
master thesis 2018
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Klapwijk, Jeffrey (author)
Continuous Climb Operations aim at improving the efficiency of a flight's climb phase by reducing the number of level-offs. The associated fuel-benefits help airlines and airports to comply with future emission demands, rising fuel prices and modernizing airspace requirements. Previously, most studies in this field only considered the effect of...
master thesis 2018
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van Slobbe, Chèr (author)
Amsterdam Schiphol Airport is the main international airport in the Netherlands, being the third busiest airport in Europe in terms of passenger volumes (Insideflyer, 2020). All these passengers spent most of their time behind the security check in the terminal, waiting for their aircraft to depart. In this area, passengers are encouraged to...
master thesis 2020
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Hooft, R.H.F. (author)
Approximately 70% of KLM passengers transfer via KLM’s main hub AAS. It is obvious that KLM’s transfer product is extremely important as alternative transfer airports are improving rapidly. KLM is losing ground to the competition. Therefore this report is made is order to investigate KLM’s transfer product and how KLM can jump ahead of the...
master thesis 2014
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Wong, Chi Hang (author)
Airport has been labelled as a non-place by the French anthropologist Marc Augé, with its place as a limbo filled with a mass of isolated individuals which response to non-human mediations such as boarding screens and signages. Consider together with the automatic trend of mobility as well as the social health trend of non-real life...
master thesis 2019
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Schuppener, K.M. (author)
Amsterdam Aiport Schiphol (AAS) has the ambition of becoming Europe's cargo preferred airport. However, in addition to facing spare capacity for future growth, past research has shown key issues preventing it from reaching this goal. Some of these are truck waiting times, long throughput times and 1st line warehouse efficiency. One of the...
master thesis 2016
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van Berkel, Paul (author)
How is BIM implemented and integrated as a building process for existing<br/>buildings on a social and organizational level? By researching the building process at Schiphol during the project upgrade Wortel g-pier and combining these results with theoretical knowledge of BIM, a hypothesis could be written with a potential method of implementing...
master thesis 2018
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Sołtysiak, Katarzyna (author)
Nowadays, a majority of goods is produced in a significant distance to a consumption market; spaces of production and consumption have become extremely disconnected. For this reason, consumers are not aware of labour and pollution that desired goods create. Large amounts of waste are disposed daily, in particular in well developed countries. But...
master thesis 2019
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De Blok, S. (author)
Airports in The Netherlands are subjected to tangent environmental laws to restrain pollution and noise nuisance. Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AAS) is one airport dealing with this regulatory framework but nevertheless they are resolute to continue growth with respect to aircraft movements. To cope with the law related to aircraft noise, the...
master thesis 2015
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Aerts, S.N. (author)
Schiphol has the ambition to become Europe’s preferred airport within five years. Due to the increasing competitive climate, it becomes progressively important for airports to enhance passenger satisfaction. Schiphol wants to do this by differentiating from its competitors through excellent service and customer satisfaction. Information and...
master thesis 2015
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