Airport Landside Analysis and Modeling

by Dr. Antonio A. Trani
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Virginia Tech

Content
Brief description of terminal concepts
+ horizontal distribution
+ vertical distribution
+ landside components
• Future directions and impacts
• Some analytic techniques to model and simulate
terminals

Purpose of the Discussion
• To review and understand the basic airport terminal
concepts
• To discuss modeling techniques applicable to primary
and secondary flows inside the airport terminal
• Discussion of challenges in airport terminal modeling
• Passenger behavior modeling
• Shopping activities inside airport terminals
• Security implications


http://128.173.204.63/courses/cee4674/cee4674_pub/airport_landside.pdf