Assessment Information/Brief 2023-24
To be used for all types of assessment and provided to students at the start of the module.
Information provided should be compatible with the detail contained in the approved module specification
although may contain more information for clarity.
Module title Airport Operations and Planning
CRN 59081
Level 7
Assessment title Sustainable Airport Operations and Planning – Competitive
Benchmarking
Weighting within
module This assessment is worth 50% of the overall module mark.
Module
Leader/Assessment set
by
Dr Viktoriia Myroniuk, V.Myroniuk@salford.ac.uk, SEE Building Staff
& PhD Office 03.22, calls via Teams
Submission deadline
date and time
The submission deadline is 8
th of December by no later than 16:00.
Any submission received after 16:00 (even if only by a few seconds
will be considered as late).
Students with a Reasonable Adjustment Plan (RAP) or Carer Support
Plan should check your plan to see if an extension to this submission
date has been agreed.
How to submit You should submit your assessment electronically via Turnitin on
Blackboard module page.
As the University will mark assessments anonymously where this is
possible, please use your student roll number and not your name on
your submission.
Assessment task details
and instructions
You should continue analysing the airport chosen for the first module
assessment.
Please suggest improvements / find solutions to the existing
problems using examples of other airports in the UK and / or in other
countries to ensure sustainable development. You are encouraged to
consider the following areas of airport operations and planning:
1. Measures to decrease airport noise and emissions.
2. Sustainable airport land use planning.
3. Airport biodiversity preservation and wildlife hazard
management.
4. Sustainable airport ground access.
Assessment Information/Brief
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5. Sustainable passenger / cargo terminal design.
6. Sustainable airport capacity management and operations.
7. Sustainable baggage handling.
8. Sustainable airport safety and security.
9. Airport water and waste management.
10. Aerodrome characteristics to ensure sustainable operations.
11. Sustainable ground support equipment.
12. Sustainable ramp handling operations.
13. Airport extreme weather operations and disruption
management.
14. Airport emergency planning, rescue / firefighting operations and
crisis management.
15. Airport economic and social sustainability.
Intended audience is the top management of the chosen airport.
Using the UN Sustainable Development Goals (Appendix A) please
link every improvement / solution suggested with a particular goal
from the table.
You should also include a paragraph dedicated to reflection on how
formative feedback on your weekly posts on Blackboard discussion
boards impacted the final version of your submitted assignment. Fill
in the Reflective Journal (Appendix B) and highlight in red or green
whether the deadline(-s) have been met.
You should demonstrate extensive reading and use of different
information sources, such as official web sites of regulatory bodies,
professional organisations and associations (e.g., International Civil
Aviation Organisation, International Air Transport Association,
Airport Council International, Civil Aviation Authority, etc.), web sites
of different airports around the world, textbooks, industry related
journals and magazines such as Airport Magazine, Airport World
Magazine, International Airport Review, Passenger Terminal Today,
etc. The list of relevant magazines is available on the module
Blackboard page. Both quality and quantity of the sources used will
be assessed. You should ensure that the most recent regulations,
practices and technologies have been considered.
Arial 12, single line spacing, normal or narrow margins. Please use
academic writing and APA 7th (Harvard) style for referencing:
https://www.salford.ac.uk/skills/referencing/apa-7th-edition. PDF
format (an online converter to be used).
