RESEARCH NEEDS FOR AIRPORT TERMINAL PLANNING

This paper is a report on the desirable research directions for airport terminal systems. A consensus was reached that the problems of airport terminal planning, design, and operation have to be extensively rethought. The research needs for this area are now principally in the "soft" side of engineering. Specific areas of particular importance concern: the nature of the airport systems and the networks that connect them; the size and distribution of the demands placed on the system; the spatial configuration of airport terminals; means to reduce labor entensity of ground side operations; the development of standards for equipment and operating procedures; the use of pricing policies to influence loads on the system; and the issues of how alternative plans should be evaluated. It is emphasized that an effective research strategy will have to corridor the institutional problems of implementation as thoroughly as the technical issues.

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• Publication Date: 1973-11

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 863-871
• Serial:
  • Journal of Transportation Engineering
  • Volume: 99
  • Issue Number: TE4
  • Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
  • ISSN: 0733-947X
  • Serial URL: https://ascelibrary.org/journal/jtepbs

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air transportation; Airport operations; Airport planning; Airports; Equipment; Freight terminals; Implementation; Intermodal terminals; Landside capacity; Networks; Planning; Pricing; Research; Shape; Structural design; Workload
• Uncontrolled Terms: Airport design; Configuration
• Old TRIS Terms: Labor intensiveness
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Freight Transportation; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Research; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00155683
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Report/Paper Numbers: SAE 1015 Proceeding
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 20 1977 12:00AM