The Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) Master Plan explores a variety of ways to meet the changing aviation needs of Southern California in coming decades. The needs include increasing the safety of passengers and airport workers. A recent proposed alternative, Alternative D-Safety and Security, includes more features for the security of airport workers and passengers. Among the features of this plan are maintaining current gate capacity to accommodate growth to 78 million annual passengers by 2015 (from roughly 67 million in 2000), with some reconfiguration to better accommodate very large aircraft, reconfiguring the Central Terminal Area, including removal of the U-road currently used for passenger loading and unloading, and the removal of all parking structures, limiting Central Terminal Area vehicle traffic to emergency vehicles, mass transportation vehicles (including 'FlyAway' buses to long-term parking lots), and vehicles making deliveries to tenants and concessionaires, constructing a large Ground Transportation Center in the Manchester Square Area, approximately two miles from the Central Terminal Area; all short-term parking and passenger dropoff and pickup would occur at this facility, constructing a mass transit system or 'people mover' linking the Ground Transportation Center, the Metro Green Line, the Central Terminal Area, and a consolidated car rental facility within the Central Terminal Area.


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    Title :

    Designing Airports for Security: An Analysis of Proposed Changes at LAX


    Contributors:
    T. L. Schell (author) / B. G. Chow (author) / C. Grammich (author)

    Publication date :

    2003


    Size :

    8 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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