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Demand & Landside Flashcards

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What is the importance of airports:

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Global transportation of people and goods, create employment, act as business gateways, main driver for tourism growth, generate economic deveplopment

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What types of airports are there?

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Airfield (general aviation, pilot trainging, business aviation), OD airports (seasonal, feeding hubs, point to point), hubs (regional, intercontinental), military airports and helicopter bases

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What is forecasting?

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Basic concept is to estimate past trends and project them forward, they are mostly incorrect and thus risky.

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How does growth occur?

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Increase in number of routes. Capacity van be increased by higher frequency or increasing size of aircraft used.

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What are different demand management tools?

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Administrative: slot coordination, schedule coordination with airlines and lotteries.
Economic: congestion pricing, minimum landing fees.
Hybrid: Slots plus peak period pricing and slot auctions.

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Slot Trading

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Swapping of slots between airlines.

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Goal of congestion pricing

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Increasing efficiency by internalizing external costs.

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Recognize the different interfaces of the airport

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See slides.

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What are the three different airport types?

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International Hub Airport: transfers, high growth rates, delays.
International Airport: mainly O&D traffic.
Regional Airport: Mainly domestic and also small continental traffic.

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What are the three airline types?

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Scheduled Carrier, Charter Carrier, Low-Cost-Carrier

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Scheduled Carrier

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Fixed schedule, many fesinations, high freq and various aircraft types, price and service diversification

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Charter Carrier

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Seasonal schedule, mainly P2P, holiday destinations, cheaper tickets, less passenger comfort

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Low-Cost-Carrier (LCC)

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Fixed scchedule, only P2P short-haul, only econ class, minimize costs, one AC type

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What are the three passenger types?

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Domestic/internationArriving / Departing / Transfer
Business / Leisure

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15
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Name the 5 basic configurations:

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Finger Piers (2 airsides)
Linear Piers (1 airside)
Satellites
Midfield (linear of X-shaped)
Transporter, see slides for pictures

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Linear Configuration

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Short walking distance for O&D pax, efficient operation and aircraft taxiing, not suitable for transfer, and decentralized concept (more staff needed)

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Midfield configuration

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Very efficient for aircraft parking and taxiing, suitable for transfer pax, need for underground APM

18
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Dwell time

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Average time someone spends there, determines capacity

19
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Formula for space required

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Area = Person/Time * Area/Person * Time

20
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PMM =

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Persons / Minute / Meter

21
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Automated people mover

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Transfers pax between terminal, allows fast transfer

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