Planning and Design of Airports, 4/e

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Summary: Airport engineer's viewpoint
Review: The best of its kind. We have all the other airport and terminal design books on the bookshelf (up to 1998 publication date), but every time we come back to using Horonjeff for the serious masterplanning and design of new airports and extensions. It is also good for layout design by the engineer for terminals - although the architects may want more books.

Horonjeff has got the full set of data tables and charts to enable you to design anything. I seldom need to use the ICAO Manuals on a daily basis, and only use them for cross checking an obscure point. The upgrade from the 3rd edition to the 4th edition was a big one - it metricated much of the book, added in the latest aircraft (late model 737, 767s and ER, and the 777-200), and generally updated the book. Examples of new information are some good stuff on runway/taxiway capacity, and some additions to ACN/PCN. Worth spending the money to update. Essential to buy if starting from scratch. The best textbook for a course on Airport Engineering. Equal to other textbooks for a course on Aviation and Airports. Good textbook for a course on Airport Operations.