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The airport fitness programme: A new approach and technique to ensure your airport’s sustainable growth
Journal of Airport Management,
10
(1),
73-83
(2015)
Abstract
At the Passenger Expo 2015 in Paris, NACO (Netherlands Airport Consultants) presented the ‘Airport Fitness Programme’. The programme, developed in-house by Majidah Hashim and rolled out by Vivekanandhan Sindhamani and the author, is a practical guide to achieve real benefit from sustainability for your airport business. It assists airports in cultivating strong and value-driven management strategies, as well as instituting productive and long-term relationships with their stakeholders. This paper aims to provide further background to the programme, such as the demand that was identified, its practical application and its regulatory context and relevance for today’s airport manager. This embodies the scope of the paper. In summary, the paper will allow the airport manager to assess whether the sustainability programme being undertaken at his or her airport is benefiting the business of the airport. Or is there scope for some ‘training sessions’ to tone the existing programmes and bring more focus?
Keywords: airport sustainability; global reporting; airports; aircraft noise; birds; emissions; Heathrow; Hong Kong; Delhi; Schiphol
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Author's Biography
Joeri Aulman is an airport planner and project manager for NACO, the aviation planning and design company of the Royal HaskoningDHV Group, a Dutch consultancy group with expertise in aviation, ports, water, urban and transport planning, design and engineering. NACO was GRI’s appointed consultant for the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) development of the Airport Operators’ Sector Supplement (AOSS) in cooperation with the multi-stakeholder airport working group. Joeri has a Masters of Architecture from Delft University and has spent over a decade in developing economies working on aviation and urban infrastructure projects for private clients, helping them with the sustainable performance of their assets.
