MEASURING AIRPORT LANDSIDE CAPACITY

Congestion at airport terminal buildings, access roads, and parking areas increasingly threatens the capability of airports to serve additional passengers and air cargo. Measuring the capacity of these airport landside facilities and services is becoming critical. No generally accepted standards exist for gauging the level of service provided by landside facilities and their operations. The Federal Aviation Administration, in recognition of this situation, commissioned the Transportation Research Board (TRB) to review existing capacity assessment techniques and recommend guidelines that can be used by airport operators, planners, and others who must measure airport landside capacity. This report presents the findings of a TRB committee convened over a period of one year. The committee concluded that current knowledge about the performance of various airport landside components is inadequate to support airport landside service standards at this time. Instead, the commitee proposed a process for measuring airport landside capacity that takes an important first step toward developing such standards. Part I of the report contains a general description of the airport landside, how landside capacity is defined and measured, a process for landside capacity assessment, and research needs. In Part II guidance is presented for applying these definitions and the process to specific landside functional components likely to represent constraints on the airport's ability to satisfy demand.

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• Publication Date: 1987

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 200 p.
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Board Special Report
  • Issue Number: 215
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0360-859X

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Guidelines; Landside capacity; Measurement; Standards
• Old TRIS Terms: Airport landside capacity
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00473186
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0-309-04457-X
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Sep 30 1987 12:00AM