The Independent Airport Planning Manual

180 Pages·2010·2.85 MB·English

by  Alexandre Bradley

The independent airport planning manual
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This book is dedicated to my wife Helen Bradley and my late father
Leonard Bradley.
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Contents
About the author xi
Acknowledgements xiii
Abbreviations and acronyms xv
Introduction to this manual xvii
1 The brief to airport planners 1
1.1 Forecasts 1
1.2 Planning objectives and service levels 9
1.3 Development phasing strategy 13
1.4 Site constraints: physical and operational 14
1.5 Construction logistics 14
1.6 Airport security 16
1.7 Terminal and satellites/piers 18
1.8 Cargo buildings 19
1.9 General aviation facilities 20
1.10 Aircraft maintenance facilities 21
1.11 Airfield infrastructure 22
1.12 General support infrastructure 22
1.13 Ancillary facilities 23
1.14 Landscaping 23
1.15 Surface access 24
2 Outline airport planning principles 25
2.1 Industry standard planning approach 25
2.2 Masterplan evaluation techniques (evaluation criteria/
pairwise/weighting) 30
2.3 Project drivers 31
2.4 Airport case study 37
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3 Airport terminal and pier/satellite planning 39
3.1 Passenger segregation 39
3.2 Passenger experience: process flow diagrams and interactive
models 42
3.3 Operational considerations: airport/airlines 42
3.4 Financial models 46
3.5 Retail design principles 47
3.6 Landside retail 51
3.7 Dwell periods 52
3.8 Airside retail: departures lounge/satellite/pier 57
3.9 Planning the size of terminal buildings 58
4 Airport baggage handling design 59
4.1 Categories of baggage handling systems 59
4.2 User requirements specification (URS) 60
4.3 Hold and hand baggage screening legislative requirements 61
4.4 Current and future baggage screening processes 62
4.5 Advances in baggage system automation 65
4.6 Advantages and disadvantages of the various hold baggage
screening (HBS) processes and locations 69
4.7 Manual handling baggage hall design 78
5 Airport apron, runway and taxiway design 81
5.1 Function areas of the apron 81
5.2 Aircraft stands and multiaircraft ramping systems (MARS) 82
5.3 Passenger airbridges 86
5.4 Levels of passenger service 87
5.5 Low-cost carrier terminals versus full-service legacy terminals 89
5.6 Runway components 91
5.7 Restricted surface runways and taxiway ICAO Annex data 95
6 Design for airport security 101
6.1 Threats to aviation 101
6.2 Hijacking of aircraft 102
6.3 Sabotage of aircraft 103
6.4 Sabotage of airports 103
6.5 Legislation: international, European and domestic obligations 104
6.6 ICAO Annex 17 106
6.7 Masterplan airport development considerations 110
6.8 Design options for terminals and piers 113
6.9 Impact of explosives on terminal infrastructure 115
6.10 Perimeter security 116
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Contents ix
7 Case studies in airport planning 121
7.1 Introduction 121
7.2 Airport research report: Chisinau S.E. International Airport,
Moldova 123
7.3 Airport research report: Cologne Bonn Airport, Germany 135
7.4 Airport research report: Adelaide Airport, Australia 145
7.5 Airport research report: low-cost bespoke terminal, Luton
Airport, UK 156
7.6 Airport research report: low-cost terminal, Frankfurt Hahn
Airport, Germany 158
Index 159
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