The Airport Planning Course It offers you a unique opportunity to enter a sector that is constantly growing and experiencing high demand for labour. Aviation is crucial to global connectivity, and efficient airport planning is essential to meeting the needs of current and future air traffic. You will learn about planning levels, airport layout design and the ICAO structure of the master plan, developing skills to analyse current and future capacity. This course will enable you to understand how traffic demand is managed and how movement areas and terminals are planned, ensuring a high-quality service. The planning tools you will acquire are fundamental to becoming a professional capable of tackling the challenges of modernisation and expansion in the airport industry. Join us and be part of the transformation of air transport, preparing yourself for a promising future in this vital field.
Airport planning
Introduction
Objectives
- To understand the different levels of airport planning and their strategic importance.
- Analyse the ICAO structure of the Master Plan to ensure its correct implementation.
- Identify the data required to draw up an effective master plan.
- Assess traffic forecasts using accurate demand studies.
- Design the airport layout in line with best practice.
- Plan the movement area on the airside to optimise operations.
- To draw up plans for the terminal area and land-side access routes.
- Estimate current and future capacity based on projected demand.
- Apply the planning tools set out in the Airport Development Reference Manual.
Table of Contents
TEACHING UNIT 1. LEVELS OF PLANNING
Introduction
Strategic
Tactical
Project
TEACHING UNIT 2. AIRPORT MASTER PLAN: DEFINITION AND OBJECTIVES
Introduction
Master plan. Process in accordance with IATA
AC150/5070-6 FAA Airport Master Plans
TEACHING UNIT 3. ICAO STRUCTURE OF THE MASTER PLAN
Introduction
Document 9184
TEACHING UNIT 4. DATA REQUIRED FOR THE MASTER PLAN
Introduction
Stock
Demand and traffic
Environment
TEACHING UNIT 5. TRAFFIC FORECASTING. STUDY OF DEMAND
An Introduction to Demand Forecasting
Methods and models for forecasting demand
Qualitative methods for demand forecasting
Quantitative methods for forecasting demand
TEACHING UNIT 6. AIRPORT LAYOUT
Basic definitions
Air-side and ground-side components
ICAO Core Regulations
FAA reference regulations
TEACHING UNIT 7. PLANNING FOR THE MOVEMENTS MODULE. LADO AIRE
Objectives
Master Planning Manual (Doc 9184). Section 2
Clues
Filming locations
Platforms
Navigation aids
Related basic concepts
TEACHING UNIT 8. PLANNING OF THE TERMINAL AREA, URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND ACCESS ROUTES. LAND SIDE
Master Planning Manual (Doc 9184). Section 3
Terminal buildings
Goods handling facilities
Land transport
References
TEACHING UNIT 9. CURRENT AND FUTURE CAPACITY. DEMAND
Definition of capacity
Range of motion
Methods for estimating capacity
Claim.
Peak values
Design values
References
TEACHING UNIT 10. SERVICE LEVELS. AIRPORT DEVELOPMENT REFERENCE MANUAL
ADRM. Objectives and content
Definition of service levels (the)
The evolution of the concept
Adrm 11th. Changes and improvements
TEACHING UNIT 11. PLANNING TOOLS
Simmod
Other simulation tools