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Airport infrastructure
Published in Peter J. Bruce, Yi Gao, John M. C. King, Airline Operations, 2018
Passenger demand in periods of peak activity is the main driver of the size and layout of passenger terminal facilities. While airports are commonly classified based on the number of annual passenger movements, sizing of passenger terminal facilities is generally based on the demand over a busy hour. As demand varies across the day, week, seasons and the year, a passenger terminal will likely be operating below capacity at most times but must still provide the capacity to meet the demand during peak periods. In order to avoid designing a passenger terminal based on a single peak hour associated with a unique event, the industry has established some typical planning parameters which allow the airport to operate at or below capacity at most times but to still have sufficient capacity to meet demand during peak periods. An appropriate balance should be struck between the need to meet passenger demand without overproviding space and facilities because of infrequent traffic surge occurrences.
Design of a new in-flight entertainment terminal
Published in Jimmy C.M. Kao, Wen-Pei Sung, Civil, Architecture and Environmental Engineering, 2017
Hairong Xu, Hong Zhou, Hui Yang
In the new design, passenger terminal system will integrate cutting edge technology of electronics, communications, computers, and big data analysis. These advanced technologies will provide more personalized service and increase the economic benefits of the airline companies. Passenger terminal system will place more emphasis on the comfort of the seats because the passengers spend most of their travel time in their seats. Audios and videos will be saved in local storage instead of the server, which will reduce the dependence on the server and the network (Akl, 2011).
From conflicts to synergies between mitigation and adaptation strategies to climate change: Lisbon Sponge- City 2010-2030
Published in Paulo Jorge da Silva Bartolo, Fernando Moreira da Silva, Shaden Jaradat, Helena Bartolo, Industry 4.0 – Shaping The Future of The Digital World, 2020
The storm water drainage sewer will be able to produce and store hydroelectric power at dedicated points to and feed some equipment, preferably from the cruise terminal. The passenger terminal is a mitigation project (compact city, low energy consumption and reduction of CO2 emissions), and it complements other synergistic projects, such as the green corridor of the river (CO2 sink, reduction of the heat effect, permeable soil, retention basin and increase of biodiversity) through its landscape green design (Williams 2012).
Methodology for defining the new optimum level of service in airport passenger terminals
Published in Transportation Planning and Technology, 2021
In these circumstances, the current and improved LOS standard for airport terminals by IATA (2019) (hereafter LOS-2019) deals with both space provision (spatial LOS) and waiting time (temporal LOS) for each service element within the airport terminal. The service level is segmented into three levels – suboptimum, optimum, and overdesign. International passenger terminal buildings generally consist of processing facilities (i.e. check-in desk, security checkpoint and emigration) and holding facilities (i.e. public departure hall and boarding gates). According to the 10th edition of Airport Development Reference Manual (IATA 2015), terminal facilities that are designed according to the LOS parameters for optimum levels (which are provided as a range of values) would provide the following benefits: space to accommodate all necessary functions in a comfortable environmentstable passenger flows with acceptable waiting timesan overall good service (comfort level) to passengers at a reasonable cost, andbalance economic terminal dimensions with passenger expectations.