Theses/Dissertations

The Effect of Intensive Auditory Cues on Flight Passengers’ Safe Behaviors

Li, Tianhua (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

Tuncman, Isa (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

Udchachone, Sarinthree (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

Rebensky, Summer Lindsey (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

Maharaj, Indira (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

Abdullah, Hani (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

Mahlman, John Arthur Jr. (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

Edwards, Maarten Nelson Devon (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

Ruenruoy, Ratchada (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

Li, Kainan (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

Chauhan, Bhoomin Bhupendrabhai (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

Nuhu, Nazif Sani (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

Turgut, Rϋstϋ Tolga (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

Chaparro, Maria (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 ...