Optimum Design of Airport Enplaning Curbside Areas
Publication: Journal of Transportation Engineering
Volume 120, Issue 4
Abstract
A new approach for design of enplaning curbside areas at airports incorporating the users' behavior was investigated. A design procedure based on the vehicular demand distribution over the doors of terminal building and along the enplaning curbside was developed. First, the traffic distribution around the doors of a terminal building based on the drivers' parking‐space preference, in the form of a binomial function, was analyzed. Second, weighting functions based on the users' door preference for unloading, in the case of more than one door, in the form of a modified binomial distribution, were developed and calibrated. By using the composite traffic distribution, a curb‐design computer program was developed to give the optimum number of doors, door locations, effective length, and practical dynamic capacity of the curbside area. A new interactive curb planning and design methodology based on the findings of the research was proposed. The new method, after determining the vehicular demand, will optimize curbside area requirements such that the capacity of designed curb would be greater than demand.
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Journal of Transportation Engineering
Volume 120 • Issue 4 • July 1994
Pages: 536 - 551
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Copyright © 1994 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Received: Dec 23, 1991
Published online: Jul 1, 1994
Published in print: Jul 1994
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