1. Airport Design Introduction
Note: verify all procedures taught this semester with current FAA or ICAO standards!

2. Some Stats
2013: 7.3 million flights to top 77 US airports (ATL is largest at 445,000 arrivals and 445,000 departures)
19,600 airports in the US
10% Military
27% Publicly owned

3. Some Stats (cont’d) Air travel: 8 billion VMT
Highway travel: 3 trillion VMT

4. Passenger-miles by Mode

5. Passenger-miles by Public Mode

6. Trip Length by Mode

7. Ton-miles by Mode

9. Length of Freight Haul by Mode
2010
1150
563
914

10. Airplane Safety The safest transport mode Highway Air Carrier:
Average 50 per year, many years zero or close to it
Highest in recent years, 531 in 2001
General Aviation (GA): Average 500 per year, slight decreasing trend
Highway
Fatalities: 35,000/yr

11. US Airports Atlanta (ATL): 45 million annual pax #1
Chicago (ORD): MAP #2/3
LAX: 32 MAP #2/3
New York (JFK): 25 MAP, #6
Louisville (STN)
Cincinnati: 3 MAP #52 (used to be 7 MAP #31)

12. Freight

13. Airport System Airspace Terminal Airspace Runway AIRSIDE Taxiway
Apron/Gates
Terminal
Parking
LANDSIDE
Ground Access

14. Airport Planning Studies
Airport System Plan
National
State
Regional
Airport Master Plan
Airport Project Plan

15. Airport Master Plan Physical facilities Land use Environmental impacts
Access needs
Airport feasibility
How to get there

16. Where to put an airport? Land use Atmospheric conditions
Ground transport
Expandability
Proximity to other
facilities
Obstructions
Demand

17. General Layout DFW