PROVIDING AIRPORT LANDSIDE CAPACITY

The capacity of the airport landside (which is the entire airport except runways, taxiways, and parking aprons) generally has not been determined by any set of criteria. Acceptable criteria have had reasonable use in determining capacity requirements for that portion of landside that comprises passenger terminal, cargo terminal, on-airport roadway systems, and automobile parking. Among factors that have contributed to unsatisfactory landside capacity conditions are (a) lack of appropriate business and economic factors; (b) failure to consider landside as a whole and to establish priority of use for available land; (c) unreliability of forecasting; (d) absence of economic justification and cost parameters that result in burdensome costs and do not correlate useful life and investment amortization; (e) escalation of "gamesmanship" and acrimony between airport managements and airline representatives; and (f) lack of nontechnical criteria sufficiently comprehensive to provide coverage of pertinent areas of consideration, including geographical location priorities, economic justifications, effective costing, reasonable forecasting, fixing of responsibilities, and management objectives. /Author/

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  • Proceedings of a conference held in Tampa, Florida, April 28- May 2, 1975, and sponsored by the Transportation Systems Center and Federal Aviation Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved
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• Authors:
  • Callahan, Roy H
• Conference:
  • Conference on Airport Landside Capacity
  • Location: Tampa Florida, United States
  • Date: 1975-4-28 to 1975-5-2
• Publication Date: 1975

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: pp 143-152
• Monograph Title: AIRPORT LANDSIDE CAPACITY
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Board Special Report
  • Issue Number: 159
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0360-859X

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Airport planning; Airports; Conferences; Cost effectiveness; Economic factors; Economics; Forecasting; Land use; Landside capacity; Location; Management; Strategic planning; Workshops
• Uncontrolled Terms: Capacity; Criteria
• Old TRIS Terms: Airport landside capacity
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Aviation; Economics; Finance; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00131167
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: May 14 1981 12:00AM