FORECASTING AIRPORT TRAFFIC

This paper focuses upon the practical translation of long-range national air traffic forecasts into local facility and service planning criteria which the author hopes will be useful to engineers faced with specific local airport planning and development problems. To bring the subject to life by a practical application to a real problem, the proposed reconstruction of Newark airport is used as a concrete illustration. Newark is, perhaps, a fairly typical example of an airport that has outlived its designed terminal capacity and must now be substantially rebuilt to meet its ultimate traffic demand within the limitation of its ultimate runway capacity.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • From the book Airport Economic Planning by G.P. Howard.
• Corporate Authors:

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press

  55 Haywood Street
  Cambridge, MA  United States  02142-1493
• Authors:
  • JOHNSON, N L
• Publication Date: 1974

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 210-222
• Serial:
  • Publication of: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press
  • Publisher: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Airport capacity; Airport planning; Airport runways; Freight terminals; Intermodal terminals; Long range planning; Traffic estimation
• Identifier Terms: Newark Liberty International Airport
• Old TRIS Terms: Traffic forecasts
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Freight Transportation; Pavements; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00155451
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 31 1977 12:00AM