Strategic Airport Planning and Development Analysis: Brisbane Airport

This report provides an overview of strategic airport planning and development, emphasizing the systematic processes involved in establishing and developing airports according to guidelines and efficient plans. It delves into the challenges associated with strategic airport planning, using Brisbane Airport as a case study. The report discusses key aspects such as airport planning and design, the roles of master planning and development teams, traffic forecasting considerations, environmental improvements, and surface access considerations. Furthermore, it addresses traffic growth ambitions, environmental goals, and surface area developments aimed at improving the strategic airport development plan and ensuring its success, highlighting the importance of these elements in achieving desired levels of traffic, environmental sustainability, and surface area coverage.

Strategic Airport
Planning and
Development

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Airport Planning and Design...........................................................................................................1
Airport planning process..................................................................................................................2
Master Planning and Development Teams of Airport............................................................2
Key planning challenges..................................................................................................................3
Airport Traffic forecasting considerations.............................................................................3
Airport Environmental improvements....................................................................................4
Surface Access considerations...............................................................................................4
Development plan and its success....................................................................................................4
Traffic growth ambitions........................................................................................................4
Environmental goals...............................................................................................................5
Surface Access developments................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Strategic airport planning and development can be explained as the systematic process that
is used for establishing the airports according to the guidelines and efficient development plans.
It is very important that airport planning is done strategically for achieving the desired level of
traffic, environment and surface area coverage (Brown, 2022). The following report will describe
the various challenges in relation to the strategic planning of the airport and its establishment.
Construction of the airport is a multi-disciplinary project and involves various requirements such
as engineering, contractors, executives, agencies, experts, legal advisors, etc. This report will
cover the description of Brisbane airport that is an international airport that serves Brisbane and
South East Queensland. This report will discuss the various challenges faced by the airport while
planning its airport traffic forecast in airport environment and surface access considerations. In
the end, it will describe the traffic growth ambitions, environmental goals and surface area
developments for improving the strategic airport development plan and its success.
MAIN BODY
Airport Planning and Design
Figure 1: The Airport System
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Airport is a place for connectivity that provides travelling options for the people through air
that is among the fastest means of transport invented by humans. The airport can be described as
the place which consists of air space, landing area, runways, Taxies, waiting area, boarding area
etc. The airport planning must reflect the complete understanding about the interrelated factors
that helps to facilitate better experience at the airport (Wang, Gong and Yang, 2018). It consists
of the aircraft performance, environment management, air traffic management etc. activities at
the Brisbane Airport, Australia.
Airport planning process
Master Planning and Development Teams of Airport
The airport master planning team helps in the ultimate planning and development activities
of the airport. The master planning and development includes the development of the airport
physically as well as the development of entire airport areas for aviation and non-aviation
demands as well as the use of land for the airport according to the financial implications and the
specifications required physically. The major components on which the Brisbane airport master
planning and development teams focus are the air support and ground support. The terminal
building is the main connection that provides connectivity between the air support and ground
crew for maintaining the smooth flow of activities at the airport. The major planning and
development activities that are performed by the master planning team at Brisbane airport are
given below.
 Planning, organising, coordinating, and directing the procedures goals and policies at the
airport so that Brisbane airport can operate effectively.
 Forecasting the planning purposes is the next step that helps to identify the requirements,
methods, factors and principles for presenting the forecasts for the plan.
 Financial arrangements and control are major sources of achieving the capital cost and
operational costs for carrying out the business activities.
 Site evaluation and selection by identifying the types of land required, site inspection and
potential environment studies for making the plan of the airport (Budd and Ison, 2021).
 Runway and taxiways must be configured in the airport with specific dimensions,
strength, characteristics of the aircraft, airfield configuration etc.
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 Air and ground control must be supported by visual support, radio navigation, critical
area demarcation, providing Air traffic control etc.
 Passenger building must be prepared by planning principles regarding the airport traffic
and various characteristics and factors that can be helpful to handle the passenger
effectively and efficiently.
 Cargo facilities must be taken care of to provide the customers with good support for
their extra luggage.
 Ground transportation and internal circulation and parking must be provided to the
airplanes, vehicles so that the airport traffic can be controlled easily (Oliveira, 2020).
 Airport operation and support facilities by proper administration, maintenance, fuel
station, fire rescue facilities, evacuation plans, meteorological services and power
generation units must be prepared at the airport.
 Security and safety services must be provided in the air as well as on the ground so that
passenger safety can be enhanced at the airport.
Key planning challenges
Every airport has certain problems, issues and challenges that affect their daily operations
that must be addressed for the sake of its stakeholders. In order to avoid the collection of
unnecessary data for improving the operations at the airport, the particular issues must be
covered in the pre-planning that could be helpful to focus on its higher level of performance.
Airport Traffic forecasting considerations
In order to plan and develop an airport and create a strategic airport development program
the evaluation of future traffic is required that must be strategically done and uses statistical data.
The forecasts may after the overall investments and operating cost that must be incurred on the
airport. The ineffective forecasts of airport traffic may lead to increased cognition with
aggressive delays and lower down the overall revenue of the business. Some of the factors must
be considered by Brisbane airport for planning and developing their airport that are given below.
The understanding about various demographic factors those exist in the society.
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Airport Environmental improvements
The airport environmental improvement is another factor that affects the planning and
development activities of Brisbane airport. It is because of the changing trends and behaviours of
customers, who seek for faster, safer and cost effective transportations. The development and
planning activities at the airport may lead to delays and halts that may prove to be an issue for
the business. The airport environment must have effective runways, instrument weather,
controlled air space, beacons, radar and other equipment that can be helpful in improving the air
space traffic. There are many activities that can be performed by Brisbane airport to improve the
environmental aspects and develop the master plans for improving the airport activity.
Surface Access considerations
The surface area considerations or airport site determination and considerations have
significant effects on the success of airport planning and development. The air space and site
determination for tracking the take-off and landing corridors are very important for planning and
developing the airport activities (Guedes and et. al., 2021). It must be decided what are the safe
landing locations and where the turbulence can be controlled. The obstacles in the flight path and
airport operations must be identified for developing better surface area control of the operations.
Development plan and its success
The siting of the runway must provide the solutions to all these constraints and would avoid
the landing and take-off problems.
Traffic growth ambitions
By identifying and forecasting the critical traffic at the airport better financial plans can be
established to acquire the success of the planning and development activities of Brisbane airport.
 Various geographical factors and their impacts on the airport operations.
 Changing lifestyles, trends and disposable income of people that may affect their choices to
travel via air.
 The nearby airports and competitors whose operations may affect the overall effectiveness
and efficiency of the Brisbane airport.
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 Changes in the ways airports are used in today's world such as the route change, halt
stations, fuel stations etc.
 The changes in the convention industries and the availability of customers for leisure
purposes.
Environmental goals
The environmental goals can also help to comply with the planning and development
activities of the organisation with the external environment factors that affect its operations. With
the help of environmental goals consisting of the political environment, economical environment,
social environment, technology environment, legal environment and ecology or natural
environment, the company can gain a high level of effectiveness and efficiency of its planning
and development activities of the airport.
 Establishing the air traffic control procedures so that a suitable air space environment can be
created at the airport.
 By determining the causes and obstructions of air navigation, Brisbane airport can improve
the air environment or Air traffic control.
 By using the electronic and virtual approaches the landing, ground control and take off at the
airport can be enhanced.
Surface Access developments
The siting of the runway must provide the solutions to all these constraints and would avoid
the landing and take-off problems (Preston and et. al., 2019). The surface area considerations or
airport site determination can be helpful to identify the better operations of air control and
ground control for maintaining higher level of performance. With the help of better surface
access development and proper planning and development activities the airport authority can
easily develop better planning and development activities for them.
CONCLUSION
It has been concluded from the above report that strategic airport planning and development
is a systematic process that is helpful in installing the airports according to the guidelines for
their smooth functioning. It has been identified in the above report that airport planning and
design can provide better options for strategic development and planning of the airport. It has
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been identified that master planning and development teams of airports can bring out effective
planning for the airport traffic forecast in airport environment improvement and surface area
considerations.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Brown, M., 2022. Strategic Airport Planning. Routledge.
Budd, L. and Ison, S., 2021. Public utility or private asset? The evolution of UK airport
ownership. Case Studies on Transport Policy, 9(1). pp.212-218.
Guedes, Í., and et. al., 2021. BIM-Based Airport Design Project Standardization (IFC) for Use of
Code Checking. In Formal Methods in Architecture (pp. 37-47). Springer, Cham.
Oliveira, P. P., 2020. Digital twin development for airport management. Journal of Airport
Management, 14(3). pp.246-259.
Preston, K., and et. al., 2019. Airport Design and Construction Narrative Research
Roadmap (No. ACRP 11-02/Task 30).
Wang, D., Gong, Z. and Yang, Z., 2018. Design of industrial clusters and optimization of land
use in an airport economic zone. Land Use Policy, 77. pp.288-297.
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