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Errors in the initial stages of airport passenger terminal design can be enormously expensive. Thus, providing airport planners with decision support at the policy level can prevent costly errors made on the basis of rules of thumb or "standard" practice. The two traditional approaches for assessing potential terminal performance are inadequate. Detailed, microsiumlation programs require large amounts of data and presuppose a strictly defined initial configuration. Analytic formulas, expressing airport performance in terms of one or more decision variables, can be developed and optimized using differential calculus to find the best configuration -- unfortunately, this method can oversimplify the problem. A new methodology is presented for providing decision support for assessing airport terminal performance in terms of expected passenger walking distances. It has the advantages of capturing the most important elements of airport operations and being fast and flexible. To achieve such speed, simple mathematical expressions (based on sophisticated analyses) are used that can be computed very quickly so that potential performance can be assessed for a variety of forecasts. Performance can thus be assessed for many possible futures to get an idea of the robustness of a particular configuration, that is, whether it exhibits similar characteristics over a wide range of conditions.

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1379, Public-Sector Aviation Issues: Graduate Research Award Papers 1991-1992. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved

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English

p. 17-25

1993

Transportation Research Record

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Appendices (2) ; Figures (5) ; References (13) ; Tables (1)

Airport terminals; Decision support systems; Forecasting; Intermodal terminals; Performance; Structural design; Walking distance

Performance prediction

Aviation; Design; Highways; Terminals and Facilities

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