Decision-making for Schiphol Airport

Decision-making for Schiphol Airport: An approach towards developing a framework for prioritisation of projects for the existing asset portfolio

Bomanwar, Akshaya (TU Delft Civil Engineering and Geosciences)

Bakker, H.L.M. (graduation committee)
Leijten, M. (mentor)
de Bruijne, M.L.C. (mentor)

Delft University of Technology

Civil Engineering | Construction Management and Engineering

2020-11-27

Transportation domain forms a significant part of the infrastructure sector in The Netherlands. After the second world war in the 1960s and 1970s, substantial development occurred in transportation infrastructure with the construction of new assets like highways, railways, roadways and airports. As a result of this, the forthcoming decades are about maintaining and replacing these assets.In a dynamic environment like an airport, it becomes necessary to have a prioritisation(ranking) within these maintenance and replacement projects. A prioritisation helps the decision-makers plan project activities in a better way, curtail risks related to disruption of operations, use their financial resources wisely and have a preference on what 'maintenance and replacement' activities should be undertaken. Thus to obtain this prioritisation in 'maintenance and replacement' project initiatives, the need for forming a decision-making process is triggered. The framework is thus developed comprised of a data-driven rational model and intuitive models that take conflicts within decision-makers into consideration. The framework is developed in three levels of - 1. Project identification and development, 2. Project comparison and review and 3. Project selection and approval in this research. The framework can be adopted to obtain a prioritisation in project initiatives, having flexibility to rely just on the data driven results or to adopt some intuitive decision making models.

Decision Making
airport infrastructure
rational decision-making

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Student theses

master thesis

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