Course Details
Course Code: TLMT415 Course ID: 2989 Credit Hours: 3 Level: Undergraduate
This course is a study of managerial and leadership issues associated with airport operations, to include human resource, union, commercial, legal, security, air and air support operations, and other issues.
Course Schedule
| Registration Dates | Course Dates | Session | Weeks |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11/30/20 - 04/30/21 | 05/03/21 - 06/27/21 | Spring 2021 Session I | 8 Week session |
| 01/25/21 - 07/02/21 | 07/05/21 - 08/29/21 | Summer 2021 Session B | 8 Week session |
| 03/29/21 - 09/03/21 | 09/06/21 - 10/31/21 | Summer 2021 Session D | 8 Week session |
Current Syllabi
After successfully completing this course, you will be able to:
- Describe sources of funding for airports and airport funding policies in the United States.
- Outline the various airport types and roles.
- Examine airport master planning process and its objectives.
- Describe the difference between economic impact and cost/benefit studies and their applications.
- Identify the majjor environmental impact issues faced by airports, particularly noise issues, and the applicable regulatory requirements and argue advantages/disadvantages.
- Define and contrast the various land use planning and control options available to airport managers to deal with noise.
- Identify and describe the important airside and landside facilities and services found at large U.S. airports.
- Express the nature of the ground access problem at large U.S. airports.
- Recount how airport capacity and delay are measured.
- Recognize an organizational chart representing the management structure and organization for an airport authority.
- Identify and explain the kinds of activities normally handled by airport operations staff.
- Present the important airport operational regulations covered in FAR Part 139: Certification of Air Carrier Airports & 49CFR part 1500: Airport Security.
- Express the public relations concerns of airport managers.
- Name and contrast the different types of airport use agreements, and sources of airport revenues and expenses. Develop an airport annual budget.
- Detail the difference betweeen economic impact and cost/benefit studies and their applications.
- Understand the impotance of SATS and its effect on airport management.
The VitalSource e-‐book is provided via the APUS Bookstore. Please visit
http://apus.libguides.com/bookstore for more information.
| Book Title: | Airport Planning and Management, 6th ed. - the VitalSource e-book is provided inside the classroom |
| ISBN: | 9780071750240 |
| Publication Info: | VS-McGraw-Hill |
| Author: | Wells, Alexander / Young, Seth |
| Unit Cost: | $55.10 |
| Electronic ISBN: | 1259219992 |
| Electronic Unit Cost: | $35.00 |