Ratio-based design hour determination for airport passenger terminal facilities

Manuel Waltert, Jan Wicki, Edgar Jimenez Perez and Romano Pagliari

Journal of Air Transport Management, 2021, vol. 96, issue C

Abstract: To avoid both over-design and under-sizing of airport passenger terminal facilities such as security checkpoints, the infrastructure is designed for a specifically determined design load. As such, the design load is considered for a short period of time, usually an hour of operation, during which peak, though not necessarily maximum, demand occurs. For strategic planning applications, future design loads can be determined by either fictitious flight schedules or ratio-based models which forecast the relationship between design load and annual demand. This study presents two ratio-based methods which allow the direct determination of design hour loads (DHL) for passenger terminal facilities. The unsaturated DHL model considers the relationship between observed passenger flows in the terminal and aggregated annual demand data. The saturated DHL model includes several operational constraints which limit the actual DHL, such as limitations in the runway system or the fleet mix operating at an airport. Both models are applied to two real-world airports, for which the DHL of the security checkpoint facilities is estimated from large datasets covering multiple years. Results are significant at the 5Â % level and suggest that the proposed ratio-based methods are appropriate for airport strategic planning applications.

Keywords: Airport strategic planning; Airport passenger terminal facility; Design hour load; Linear regression model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jairtraman.2021.102125

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