Identifying Effective Sustainable Development Indicators for Airport Construction Projects: Zahedan International Airpor
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RESEARCH PAPER
Identifying Effective Sustainable Development Indicators for Airport Construction Projects: Zahedan International Airport in Iran as Case Study Abouzar Sharifi Orkomy1 · Mohammad Kazem Sharbatdar1 Received: 14 August 2019 / Accepted: 30 September 2020 © Shiraz University 2020
Abstract Airport plays an important role in the heart of the regions in which they are located, as well as in certain sectors of activity, such as tourism. Air transport makes a major contribution to sustainable development by supporting and promoting international tourism. The available rating systems need to better incorporate the broader socioeconomic settings associated with the built environment. This paper identified key indicators for assessing the sustainability performance of an airport construction projects. The research data used for analysis were collected from a questionnaire survey given to three groups of experts, including employer, consulting engineers, and contractors of Iranian airport construction projects. The importance of sustainability indicators was identified by using statistical analysis and software such as SPSS. The fuzzy set theory was used to establish key assessment indicators (KAIs). Cronbach’s alpha coefficient method was used in this study to evaluate the data reliability. A questionnaire survey among practitioners confirmed the necessity and identified priority indicators of sustainability. A procedure for using the KAIs is demonstrated by a case study. The research results demonstrated the importance of sustainability knowledge, indicators, as a positive step toward assessing sustainability in airport projects. The authors identified 25 key indicators of airport construction projects based on Iran conditions that are consistent with the principles of sustainable development. Findings showed that technical aspect with a weight factor of 32% is the highest aspect and then economic and environment aspects with 24% and, finally, social aspect with 20%. Keywords Sustainable development · Indicators · Rating systems · Infrastructure · Airport
1 Introduction Air transport contributes significantly to the development of international tourism in sustainable development and plays a major role in the humanitarian support of countries to natural disasters, famine, and war. On the other hand, carbon dioxide emissions from aircraft fuels increase the greenhouse effect, environmental pollution, and climate change. (Selymes 2010), each of the components of airport such as runways, a control tower, a passenger, cargo terminal, and others, when combined, serves overland and airborne of transport. Sustainable development defined as “development that meets the needs of the present without * Mohammad Kazem Sharbatdar [email protected] 1
Faculty of Civil Engineering, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran
compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” by the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) that called Our Common Future or the Brundtland. Recent studies indi
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