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The course provides a comprehensive
survey of state-of-the-art airport planning and design. It addresses
the strategic issues that airports face in the rapidly changing
environment of international air transport.
The course offers detailed discussions
of:
- Developing and maintaining
airport security
- Impact of tightening security
measures on airport operations and facilities
- Standard and emerging methods
for evaluating airport needs, including latest computer models,
- Strategies for dealing with
the variability of traffic and the problems of congestion and
delays
- Design methodologies for
airside facilities and modeling
- The development of major
new airports such as Athens, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, and Shanghai
- The design of airport passenger
buildings, automated baggage and people mover systems
- Airport access issues and
development in people movers
- Financing of airports by
public and private agencies and by airport user charges
- Competition between airports
and multiple airport systems
Numerous examples drawn from
the extensive North American and international consulting experience
of both lecturers supplement the presentations of issues and methods.
A major theme for the course
is that airport planning takes place in a highly unpredictable environment.
It is therefore necessary to adopt flexible approaches to calls
for new or expanded facilities. Strategies toward capital investments
should be multi-dimensional, not just technical or capital-intensive.
For example, in addressing problems of congestion and delays, the
course explores the advantages of solutions involving the reallocation
of resources, economic incentives, demand management, and the reconfiguration
of services and facilities in combination with new construction.
The course will distribute copies
of the new text Airport Systems: Planning,
Design and Management (McGraw-Hill, 2003) by Professors
de Neufville and Odoni. It incorporates extensive new material,
previously not available, on:
- efficient configuration of
airport passenger buildings
- cost-effective design through
shared use of facilities
- runway and taxiway capacity
- demand management
- airport financing
- security procedures and their
implications
The course will also be highly
illustrated from the extensive collection of figures developed in
conjunction with the publication of the book.
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