TERMINAL FACILITIES PLANNING
Jacobs Consultancy focuses on two dimensions of terminal planning
(1) planning new terminal facilities to meet anticipated future demand, and (2)
optimizing the use of existing facilities to delay the need to develop costly
new facilities.
Airport passenger terminal facilities present many challenges in terms of
their ability to accommodate demand, increasing passenger expectations, technological
advances in processing passengers and their baggage, regulatory and security
requirements, and aircraft and vehicular movements. Terminal facilities must
also be in balance with airfield and ground transportation facilities.
Terminal plans or designs developed for one airport are not directly applicable
to another--each airport has different airline, market, and operating conditions.
Terminal improvement programs must also balance often-conflicting community objectives
with the users' ability to pay the ultimate cost of new development. Jacobs Consultancy
is an industry leader in addressing these challenges. We use leading-edge techniques
and cutting-edge solutions--and, most importantly, we observe and we listen carefully.
Jacobs Consultancy assists airport sponsors, the airlines, concessionaires,
federal agencies, and other stakeholders in addressing these challenges and achieving
consensus for terminal development programs. We assist in the planning and design
of passenger terminal facilities; analyze the demand/capacity of existing facilities;
develop planning criteria, space programs, and conceptual plans for new or expanded
terminals; and support the design work of architects and engineers by validating
design decisions and cost estimates and evaluating passenger flows and accumulations.
With other specialized areas of our practice, such as ground transportation and
parking planning, airfield and airspace planning, commercial and concessions
planning, financial planning, and aviation demand forecasting, we are able to
develop airport terminal expansion plans that work |
