The terminal design process and decisions on the suitability of design concepts for a particular airport and/or air transport demand remain not well‐defined. The terminal design concept is central to the planning and design phases of airport development and will later influence airport operations—both on airside and landside. Studying the relationships between characteristics of demand and terminal design concepts is vitally important to understanding the potential influence of both on airport operations. This paper presents a chronology of airport development stages with a unified terminology of terminal design concepts defined in terms of terminal/apron configurations and their corresponding designations. It identifies possible variations in terminal design concepts known, and portrays, within a relative time frame, the evolution and development of these concepts from the simple terminal. Finally, important factors that influence the selection of terminal design concepts are stated and discussed in light of an Expert System approach suggested for the decision‐making process. Interrelations between those factors are considered together with quantified input parameters to enable airport planners to arrive at an “optimum” decision—the best selection for particular airport and demand characteristics.


    Access

    Check access

    Check availability in my library

    Order at Subito €


    Export, share and cite



    Title :

    Development of airport terminal design concepts—a new perspective


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1989-04-01


    Size :

    18 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    Unknown




    Airport terminal design

    Heino, A.F. | Engineering Index Backfile | 1946


    AIRPORT TERMINAL DESIGN

    Heino, Albert F. | SAE Technical Papers | 1945


    Airport terminal design

    Heino, A.F. | Engineering Index Backfile | 1945


    Airport Terminal Design Challenges

    Feil, D. J. / American Society of Civil Engineers; Air Transport Division | British Library Conference Proceedings | 1994


    Wayfinding and Airport Terminal Design

    Fewings, Rodney | Online Contents | 2001