Throughput Capacity Comparison for Airport Pickup and Dropoff Facilities

An airport serves as an interface between ground and air transportation; the efficient processing of ground transportation arrivals and departures is, therefore, an important part of airport operations. At many airports, the current pickup and dropoff locations for taxis and other passenger cars are along the terminal curb or in existing parking facilities, and many of these pickup and dropoff facilities suffer from excessive congestion. In addition, in recent years there has been growth in the use of on-demand ground transportation to and from airports, with the increased adoption of ride-hailing services, resulting in increased congestion. Since most airports are severely space constrained, there is a need to consider pickup and dropoff facilities that are more efficient (in vehicle throughput per unit space) than terminal curbs. In this paper we compare the throughput capacities of different pickup and dropoff facility layouts. We take into account the effect of the facility layout and operational rules on conflicts between the movements of different vehicles, the resulting delays in the movements of vehicles, as well as the spatial requirements of different layouts. We demonstrate the impact of mean service times, variability in service times and vehicle movement times, and operational rules on the relative throughput capacities of different facility layouts.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1177/03611981211037544
• Availability:
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Anton J. Kleywegt https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1849-7276 © National Academy of Sciences: Transportation Research Board 2021.
• Authors:
  • Kleywegt, Anton J
  • 0000-0002-1849-7276
  • Liu, Xinyu
  • 0000-0002-6844-9061
• Publication Date: 2022-2

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: pp 148-164
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
  • Volume: 2676
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Sage Publications, Incorporated
  • ISSN: 0361-1981
  • EISSN: 2169-4052
  • Serial URL: http://journals.sagepub.com/home/trr

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Airport ground transportation; Airports; Curb side parking; Demand responsive transportation; Design
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Design; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01763736
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: TRBAM-21-01486
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Feb 4 2021 10:57AM