Optimal Configuration of Airport Passengers Terminals

This work presents an evaluation of walking distances and construction costs for airport passenger
terminals as a function of the four configuration concepts mentioned in airport theory literature
(pier, satellite, linear, and transporter), and as a function of various demand levels. The linear
concept presented the shortest walking distance; the transporter concept presented the lowest
construction costs. The results provided are useful for airport planners to assist them in the economic
and operational assessment of building alternatives for new airport passenger terminals.
By Anderson Ribeiro Correia and Cláudio Jorge Pinto Alves

http://www.aerlines.nl/issue_31/31_Coreia_Optimal_Conf_Airport_Pax_Term.pdf

Business process redesign at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol

The Case of Passenger Services
The number of future air passengers is influenced by several exogenous and
endogenous factors. These are, among others, regulation, competition, economic
recessions, and external threats such as terrorist threats and extreme
natural disasters. Despite this influence, whose extent is quite difficult
to gauge, Schiphol Group – the operator of Amsterdam Airport Schiphol -
expects that between 2020 and 2025 approximately 70 million people per
year will use the Dutch airport. And while the terminal complex has expanded
tremendously over the past forty years, further options for expansion in the
current geographical context are limited. Any solution must therefore fit within
the contours of the existing terminal complex. Incremental innovations are
likely to fail in meeting capacity and process needs. In addition, the airport aims
to increase the efficiency and quality of its services. Wanting to continue its
track record of innovativeness, the airport decided in 2002 to start a redesign
of the passenger process. The program focuses on exploring alternative
manners to handle large passenger flows and on providing adequate passenger
services. In this paper, we discuss the redesign program of the passenger
process. Furthermore, we will answer our research question: to what extent
does the program increase the efficiency of passenger service processes
and the level of perceived service quality?

by: Bram Kaashoek and Betty Samola

http://www.aerlines.nl/issue_43/43_Kaashoek_Schiphol_Passenger_Process_Redesign.pdf

Defining Capacity of Airport Passenger Buildings

The new IATA LOS accounts for more space needed for movement,taking into consideration, presence of trolleys, bags, occupants standing or sitting, etc

Standards include:

• Wait / Circulate
• Passport / Hold
• Bag Claim Area
• Check-in Area

(new version: Airport Development Manual, 9th ed., 2004 )

http://ardent.mit.edu/airports/ASP_current_lectures/ASP%2004/Defining_Capacity04.pdf

Evaluating terminal management performances using SLAM: The 3 case of Athens International Airport

Abstract
Athens in Greece is the city selected to host the 2004 Olympic Games. Many simulations and analyses have been performed in order to properly approach the logistics problems arising from such an event. In this paper we address one of these problems. More precisely,we present a model for analyzing the terminal of Athens International Airport (AIA) under three different scenarios: (i) a historic scenario, based on a typical “busy day”, (ii) a foreseeable scenario with AIA becoming a hub and increasing its traffic volume, and (iii) a traffic intense scenario, as expected during the 2004 Olympic Games. The airport simulation is performed through the OPAL platform. While the airside analysis does not evidence any major cause of congestion, the landside, evaluated through an enhanced version of the simple 15 landside aggregate model (SLAM), shows possible situations of congestion with a consequent degradation in the level of service provided. The use of SLAM allows signaling out the bottlenecks and the corresponding possible causes. A simple modification in the airport policies is sufficient to significantly improve the overall performance.
2005 Published by Elsevier Lt

http://www.dei.unipd.it/~brunetta/at_papers/cor.pdf

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

CAAS - Airport Planning and Terminal Design

http://clacsec.lima.icao.int/Reuniones/2007/Seminario-Chile/Presentaciones/PR07.pdf

• Advantages/Disadvantages of Common Terminal Concepts

1. Pier/Finger
2. Linear
3. Transporter
4. Satellite
5. Compact Module Unit Terminal

• Passenger Flow

• IATA Level of Service

• etc