Aviation Planning and Operations Committee
Purpose:
To address issues dealing with (1) the planning and design of airport runways, taxiways, aprons, terminals, ground transportation facilities, and support facilities (excepting airfield pavement design) and (2) the safe, secure and efficient operation of these facilities. The Committee's purpose is to advance the art and science of civil engineering by: (1) promoting the civil engineer's leading role in the planning and design of airports and associated ground transportation facilities, (2) fostering education and research in airport design and operations to improve the civil engineer's analytical and design capabilities, (3) promoting state of the art methods of analysis - including fast-time and real-time simulation - to address planning, security, environmental, and operational issues facing airport operators, national and state aviation agencies, airport users, and the traveling public, (4) promoting advances in the field of airport planning and design by civil engineering, (5) working with other technical divisions of the Society demonstrated in the relationship between their concerns and airport planning and development.
Please note: You must be a member of ASCE and/or T&DI in good standing to serve on a committee. If you do not meet this criteria, please update your membership before you apply.
Meet the chair
Dan Barton, M.ASCE
Dan Barton is Vice President of Airport Planning at InterVISTAS. He has worked at over 50 airports, managing master plans in the US, Canada, and Latin America and a wide range of ground access planning and operations studies including curbside and roadway studies; parking studies; and rental car studies. Dan has more than 16 years of experience in airport planning having worked at InterVISTAS for eight years and before that at LeighFisher and Parsons Brinckerhoff. In addition to serving on ICTD’s Airport Planning and Operations Committee, Dan is on the Transportation Research Board’s Aviation Terminals and Landside Committee.
Dan is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and Brigham Young University. He lives with his wife and three kids in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Membership
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Vivek Khanna,
Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE
Past-Chair -
Jeffrey Donald Deitering,
P.E., C.Eng, M.ASCE
Secretary
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Leslie Alexander Ayeh,
P.E., M.ASCE
Corresponding Member
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Vidya Sagar Bethu,
P.E., M.ASCE
Corresponding Member -
Ellis Y. Byeon,
P.E.
Corresponding Member
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Simeon Kitchen,
M.ASCE
Member -
Hemant Kumar,
S.M.ASCE
Member
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