Airport Planning and Design: Factors Limiting Airport Growth Report

This report delves into the principles of airport planning and design, focusing on factors that limit the growth of major U.S. airports, particularly San Francisco International Airport (SFO). It highlights key aspects such as the importance of systematic approaches for efficient airport development, aiming to satisfy aviation demand cost-effectively. The report identifies three major factors hindering SFO's development: rules of air, aeronautical charts, and units of measurement. It discusses how these factors impact the airport's operations, including carbon emissions, navigation challenges, and operational standardization. The report then provides recommendations for better airport design, emphasizing the need for energy efficiency, environmental assessments, and a multidisciplinary approach to address environmental issues. It suggests using energy-efficient vehicles, preparing environmental assessment toolkits, and adhering to multiple federal agency demands to improve airport functionality and passenger experience. The report concludes by referencing relevant literature on airport planning and design.

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Principles of airport planning and design by identifying three factors that are limiting the
growth of a major U.S. airport:..................................................................................................3
Recommendation for better design possibilities in airports:......................................................4
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Principles of airport planning and design by identifying three factors that
are limiting the growth of a major U.S. airport:
Airport planning is one of the most systematic approaches, which was used in order to
have efficient development of airport (Burghouwt, 2016). The fundamental objective of
airport planning is to use the airport resources properly for the sake of satisfying the demand
of aviation in a cost effective manner (Faa.gov. 2020). Some of the major principles of airport
planning are as follows:
 To offer geographic representation of the features of existing airports and anticipated
land use in future.
 To establish realistic financial plan in order to support such development
 To establish the framework in order to run the planning process continuously.
 To make realistic schedule for the sake of implementing the proposed development in
a timely and cost effective manner.
However, De Neufville (2016) argued on the ground that there are some of the major
factors, which are creating major obstruction in the way of making effective design of US
airports. Rules of air are one of the major factors in the way of managing airports. According
to this rule, the air travel must be safe (Icao.int. 2020). However, San Francisco International
Airport (SFO) - one of the busiest airports in US, which is facing major issues in the way of
gaining effective development. Hydrogen fuelling complex is the impending issues, which is
affecting development of this airport. In order to manage the traffic of passengers, SFO has to
operate numerous heavy vehicles, which results in emission of high rate of carbon-die-oxide,
which is absolutely against the prescribed standard of rules of air (Cheng et al. 2019).
However, it had also been observed that, the higher authority of SFO is putting intense stress
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on energy efficiency. They are operating clean and energy efficient vehicles such as biofuel
buses, natural gas taxis, filtered diesel charter and scheduled buses.
Aeronautical Charts is another major factor, which is affecting the development of SFO.
Being a paper-based framework, following this aeronautical chart is making it difficult for
SFO to deal with the complex structure of some of some of the airspaces of different region.
As the chart is primary mean of navigation, it is becoming difficult for SFO to figure out their
own aircraft position by using Global Positioning System (GPS) as aeronautical charts are
traditional system.
Units of Measurement are another vital factor, which is affecting the growth of SFO. The
fundamental purpose of using the unit of measurement is to use the matrix system in order to
work as per the international standard. It is important to note in this context that in order to
improve the standardise level and ensure its smooth functionality, these units of measurement
were introduced. However, this is affecting the development of SFO, by making it difficult
for them to have control over the ticket counters and dedicated gates.
Recommendation for better design possibilities in airports:
Appropriate planning and designing of airport is very much needed in order to keep
the passengers attracted. Being one of the busiest airports of US, it is recommended for SFO
to focus on appropriate planning and designing by removing any kind of obstacles. It is
recommended for them to follow the demands of multiple federal agencies and airports.
Excessive emission of carbon-die-oxide is the major issue, faced by them. Thus, it is
suggested for them to focus on energy efficiency. The airport should use energy efficient
heavy vehicles in order to limit the emission of carbon-die-oxide. The environmental
consequence of airport management must be evaluated regular basis. This is the way, through
which the airport authority would be able to run their internal functionality in a
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environmental friendly manner (Li, Chen & Li, 2017). Both systematic and multidisciplinary
approach must be taken by them for the sake of identifying environmental issue and take
needful action in order to mitigate the same. It is the suggested for the higher authority of
SFO prepare environmental assessment (EA) toolkit, which can serve them with the ability to
accomplish the environmental assessment.
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References:
Burghouwt, G. (2016). Airline network development in Europe and its implications for
airport planning. Routledge.
Cheng, L., Chen, F., Tang, K., & Du, W. (2019). Application of surveying and mapping
technology in airport construction. In E3S Web of Conferences (Vol. 131, p. 01066).
EDP Sciences.
De Neufville, R. (2016). Airport systems planning and design. Air transport management: An
international perspective, 61.
Faa.gov. (2020). Airport Planning. [online] Available at:
https://www.faa.gov/airports/central/aip/sponsor_guide/media/0500.pdf [Accessed 28
Feb. 2020].
Icao.int. (2020). The Convention on International Civil Aviation. [online] Available at:
https://www.icao.int/safety/airnavigation/nationalitymarks/annexes_booklet_en.pdf
[Accessed 28 Feb. 2020].
Li, X., Chen, X., & Li, D. (2017). Simulation Evaluation Model of Airport Airspace and
Ground Operational Efficiency. In 2017 International Conference on Applied
Mathematics, Modeling and Simulation (AMMS 2017). Atlantis Press.
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