The Government of Burkina Faso (GoBF) has indicated that it wishes to relocate the current international airport of Ouagadougou, which lies close to the centre of the capital, to an alternative site ...at Donsin, 35 km northwest of the city. This report briefly describes the economy of Burkina Faso within which the airport operates, the current infrastructure of the existing airport and examines the reasons why the GoBF believes that it is inadequate to meet the projected future demand for aviation services. It also considers the proposed relocation of the existing airport within the context of the Government s overall policy for the strategic development of the country s transport infrastructure and tourism; the current institutional and regulatory structure of civil aviation in Burkina Faso and the division of responsibilities between key statutory and supra-national bodies; the urban development plan for the city of Ouagadougou and the area of Grand Ouaga; and the Government s broader policy objectives relating to economic reform, decentralization and social development.
A moving sidewalk system installed at an airport pier finger is analyzed. The optimal length of the moving sidewalk and the optimal spacing between the access points which minimize the total cost of ...the system are obtained using methods of calculus, for a number of cases based on the different proportions of arriving, departing and transferring passengers and for two different types of moving sidewalks: elevated, at-grade.
The optimal length of the moving sidewalk is shown to be linearly related to the length of the concourse, and to the total passenger demand. The effect due to preticketed transferees is insignificant.
The optimal spacing between access points is shown to be proportional to the square-root of either the cost of an access escalator or the cost of inconvenience to a passenger due to an intermediate gap, depending on the moving sidewalk system under consideration. It also changes with the percentage of preticketed transferees.
The attitudes of a sample of 373 air line passengers towards domestic commercial air lines was analysed by the Guttman scale procedure even though the degree of error was slightly greater than ...allowed by the method. It was found that the intensity function was J-shaped, indicating no real unfavorability towards air lines among the respondents. Generally speaking, the attitude groups with the lowest average amount of flying showed the most favorable attitude. A ranking of the various topics on the basis of number of unfavorable comments agreed quite well with the ranking of topics produced by the scale analysis.
