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Development and Validation of the ITF scale: An investigation of Airline Passengers’ Intention to Fly During a Global Disruption
(2021-07)The purpose of the current study was to develop and validate the ITF scale that measured airline passengers’ intention to fly during a global disruption. Based on the review of the literature, the researcher identified ... -
Follow-on Student Pilot Performance Differences Based on Private Pilot Training in a Residential Collegiate Program or Non-Collegiate Program
(2021-07)The purpose of this study was two-fold: to examine the difference between students who had obtained a private pilot certificate from a residential collegiate flight program and students who had obtained a private pilot ... -
Exploring the Effects of Communication Delays and Personality on Stress during Simulated Space Missions
(2021-05)The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of communication delays and personality on stress levels during a simulated spaceflight mission. The study used an experimental, within-groups, repeated-measures design ... -
An Investigation Of Runway Risks Using A Systems Approach
(2021-05)The purpose of this study was to explore and determine if Causal Analysis Based on System Theory (CAST) could divulge differing underlying causes in the Taxiway overflight incident of Air Canada Flight 759 at San Francisco ... -
The Effect of Intensive Auditory Cues on Flight Passengers’ Safe Behaviors
(2020-12)When passengers do not follow in-flight announcements, injuries can occur. It is critical to draw passengers’ attention and help them be aware of the importance of the instructions provided during in-flight announcements. ... -
Assessing the Methodological Quality of Aviation Research: A Content Analysis of Articles Published in Subscription and Open Access Aviation Journals 2014-2016
(2020-12)The purpose of the study was to determine to what extent aviation research articles were consistent with commonly recommended research protocols. Using a purposive sampling strategy, two subscription and five open access ... -
Airline Brand Experience Passengers’ Perceptions of the Big Three Carriers in the United States
(2020-08)The purpose of the study was to observe passengers’ perceptions about brand experience research in the airline industry by applying a transcendental or descriptive phenomenological methodology designed to evaluate interview ... -
Set Your Sights High: The Effect of Heads-Up Displays on Situation Awareness and Performance for Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems
(2020-05)The purpose of the current study was to examine the effect of two interface designs—traditional and heads-up displays (HUDs)—on situation awareness (SA), performance, and workload for sUAS operations. The study utilized ... -
General Aviation Airport Runway Incursions: A Qualitative Approach to Examining Reasons for, Barriers to Addressing, and Lessons Learned from Airport Managers' First-Hand Experiences
(2020-05)The purpose of the study was manifold: (a) to understand the reasons for runway incursions (RIs) at general aviation (GA) airports, (b) to describe the barriers to addressing runway incursions at GA airports, and (c) to ... -
The Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index: Examining the Reciprocal Relationship among the TTCI Factors Relative to Porter’s (1998) Diamond Model and Airline Passenger Seat Capacity for the Countries of the World
(2019-12)The current study tested the application of Porter’s (1998) diamond model of international competitiveness to the travel and tourism (T&T) industry by examining the relationship among the 14 factors of the travel and ... -
Runway Incursions: Examining Airport Managers' Perspectives of the Challenges Related to Vehicle/Pedestrian Deviations
(2019-12)The purpose of the current study was twofold: (a) to describe the contributing factors of vehicle and pedestrian deviation (V/PD) runway incursions (RIs) nationally, and (b) to describe what mitigation approaches/strategies ... -
Developing an Automation Locus of Control Scale
(2019-07)The industrial and domestic proliferation of automation is such that it has become a core component of the human experience. Both automation design paradigms and human performance must be scrutinized in order to ensure ... -
Electronic Word-of-Mouth (eWOM): Examining the Relationship Between Factors Influencing eWOM Activities and Passengers' Purchasing Involvement in the Context of Aviation
(2019-12)The purpose of the study was manifold: (a) to examine the relationship a set of targeted factors has on electronic Word-of-Mouth (eWOM) activities in the context of aviation, (b) to examine the extent to which these ... -
Factors Related to the Assessment of the Effectiveness of Environmental Management Systems (EMS) at Airports
(2019-05)The purpose of this study was to identify factors that can be used to assess the effectiveness of EMS at airports in the United States (U.S.). A survey research methodology was used for this study in two phases. The first ... -
Unmanned Aerial System Integration into National Airspace System and Airports: Risk Mitigation using Content Analysis Methodology
(2019-05)Over the last few years, the use of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) has significantly increased. With an increase in the use of UASs, the number of UAS sightings near manned aircraft and airports have also increased, as ... -
Mitigating Risk Tolerance among General Aviation Pilots: Identifying Factors That Contribute to GA Pilots’ Risk Perception
(2019-05)The purpose of this study was to identify factors that contributed to general aviation (GA) pilots’ level of risk perception, which could then be manifested as an increase in risk tolerance. The study used an explanatory ... -
Aviation Professionalism: Examining the Concept of Professionalism within and between Major Subgroups of the Aviation Industry
(2019-05)The purpose of this study was to conduct a secondary analysis of Alhallaf’s (2016) study on aviation professionalism by disaggregating his data into five subgroups: Aircraft Maintenance Technicians (AMT); Airport Managers ... -
Implementation of Music in a Simulated Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Monitoring Task to Alleviate the Vigilance Decrement
(2018-12)The vigilance decrement is a thoroughly researched phenomenon in psychological literature and has been identified in many monotonous tasks. Although the phenomenon has been recorded for approximately 80 years, no universal ... -
Employees Attitudes toward Safety Risk Management and Safety Performance at U.S. Airports
(2018-07)Increasing air transportation traffic around the world initiated authorities to take new safety measures into consideration. In 2010, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to ... -
Positive Experiences as Countermeasures to Stress in Spaceflight: An Investigation of the Experiences of Astronauts
(2018-05)Long-duration space mission targets such as asteroids, the Moon and Mars in coming years will increase the need to stress management techniques to support crews on increasingly risky, autonomous missions. New stress ...
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