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KMID : 0608619970070020029
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Korean Journal of Aerospace and Environmental Medicine
1997 Volume.7 No. 2 p.29 ~ p.38
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Airport Disaster Medical Management & Role of Aviation in the Transportation of Disease
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R. AUFFRET
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Abstract
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In 1995, 1.30 billion passengers (excluding C.I.S) were carried in civilian aircraft. The
billion passenger mark has been reached for the first time in 1987. In 1975, this figure
was 500 million, an increase of 100% over a twelve year period.
The importance of the United States of America in aviation is illustrated by the fact
that nearly half of all passengers carried worldwide passed through the twenty largest
airports of United States. The only European airports to figure among the top ten in
terms of passenger volume are LONDON (approxirately 81 million passengers /year)
PARIS (approximately 55 million passengers /year) and FRANCFORT (38 million
passengers /year). Europe, in spite of its population, (approximately 500 million) has only
about 20% of the world airline passenger traffic.
The most spectacular growth in air transport in recent years, between 1985 and 1995,
has been in ASIA (mainly in the South East part of that continent) with an average
annual growth rate of over 10% over the past 10 years. The growth in European traffic
over the same period has been 4% per annum. If the possibility of a major economic
downturn or other serious international event is excluded then it has been forecast that
passenger traffic is likely to pass the 2 billion mark a year by the year 2005. But we
must bear in mind the effects of the Gulf war on passenger transportation over the two
years 1990-1991.
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