Transportation Hub Infrastructure Expansion: Decision Support Under Uncertainty

The Athena project (www.athena-mobility.org) has worked to investigate the relationship between the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport (DFW) and the greater Dallas area in order to better understand and therefore better inform future decision-making regarding the critical infrastructure that influence mobility between the airport and the city. Through this work, infrastructure related to curbside pickup and drop-off, parking, public transit, and the road network congestion were identified as critical to the operation of the DFW transportation hub. The infrastructure analysis and expansion aspect of the Athena project is focused on the restructuring of the CTA curb as a hierarchical curb and the building or repurposing of parking infrastructure as the interplay between these two areas. The authors analyze road network and curb congestion, the rise of transportation networking companies, trends in parking usage, existing policies around this infrastructure, airport revenue streams, and other contributing factors to enable infrastructure decision making with less uncertainty. In general, the results indicate that a combination of remote parking, remote curb infrastructure, and dynamic pricing can generate revenue, reduce emissions, accommodate emerging technologies such as autonomous vehicles (AVs) and electric vehicles (EVs), and manage airport passenger growth over time.

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    National Renewable Energy Laboratory

    Golden, CO  United States  80401

    Oak Ridge National Laboratory

    Oak Ridge, TN  United States  37831
  • Authors:
    • Sigler, Devon
    • Liu, Zhaocai
    • Wang, Qichao
    • Ge, Yanbo
    • Ugirumurera, Juliette
    • Severino, Joseph
    • Biehl, Alec
    • Xie, Fei
    • Garikapati, Venu
    • Lunacek, Monte
    • Phillips, Caleb
  • Publication Date: 2021-8

Language

  • English

Media Info

  • Media Type: Digital/other
  • Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
  • Pagination: 89p

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Filing Info

  • Accession Number: 01840658
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Report/Paper Numbers: NREL/TP-2C00-80637
  • Contract Numbers: DE-AC36-08GO28308
  • Files: TRIS
  • Created Date: Mar 28 2022 1:46PM