The subject of Airport planning & design is quite stimulating and relatively exhaustive, unfortunately not much of the literature or text books are available which can provide enough guidance to provide comprehensive knowledge about the subject. Even in most of the engineering colleges, this subject is not very popular & only superficial information is provided as an optional subject at graduation level.
This book has been written to emphasis imparting knowledge on aerodrome runway system which plays a major role in Master Planning of the aerodrome.
The most-critical part of the airport infrastructure, vital for existence of any airport is the airside operational area. This part of the airport consists of civil-infrastructure facilities needed for safe landing, take-off, surface movement & parking of aircraft. The definitions & explanation about various technical terms related to airport planning & infrastructure are elucidated in this book. The details of all air-side infrastructure facilities with physical characteristics of the requisite air-side elements are detailed in this part. The design parameters, integration requirements & key factors for design of all the elements of the runway system are explained in this book.
This part will provide you plentiful of knowledge regarding planning & design of Air-side infrastructure required for various categories of airports.