AIRPORT PLANNING

AIR TRANPORTATION

A method of transportation by which passengers

, mail, and cargo are conveyed by air. The chief
advantage of this method is the considerable
amount of time saved because of the high
speed of the flight.
 AIRPORT
An Airport is an location where aircraft such as
fixed wing aircraft, helicopters take off and
land. Aircraft may be stored or maintained at
airport. An airport consists of at least one
surface such as runway for a plan to take off
and land, a helipad and often includes
buildings such as control towers, hangers and
terminal buildings.
 COMPONENTS OF AN AIRPORT
PLANNING
Runway
Taxiway
Hanger
Apron
Terminal building
Parking area
Approach zone
Control tower
 RUNWAY
Runway is the area where an aircraft lands or takes off. It
can be grass, or packed dirt, or a hard surface such as
asphalt or concrete. Runways have special markings on
them to help a pilot in the air to tell that it is a runway
(and not a road) and to help them when they are
landing or taking off.
Runway markings are white. Most runways have numbers
on the end. The number is the runway’s compass
direction. Some airports have more than one runway
going in the same direction, so they add letters to the
end of the number R for right, C for center, and L for
left.
RUNWAY
 TAXIWAY
It is a defined path (usually paved) prepared for
the use of taxing aircraft to and from the
runway. The object of providing taxiways is to
give access to the aircraft from the runways
to the terminal areas and hangers. They
should be arranged in such a way that aircraft
which have just landed do not interfere with
the aircraft taxing to take-off. Sometimes at
buzy airports, one way taxi ways may be
provided.
TAXIWAY
 HANGER
A large workshop or building for storing and
maintaining aircraft.
A hanger is a closed building structure to hold
aircraft in protective storage.
Hangers are used for protection from the
weather, protection from direct sunlight,
maintenance, repair, manufacture, assembly
and storage of aircraft on airfields.
HANGER
 APRON
The portion of the airport, usually paved, in
front of the terminal building or adjacent to
hangers, means for parking, loading and
unloading of the aircraft is known as apron.
Depending upon the size of the airport and
the volume of traffic and cargo handled by it,
a single apron for all these facilities or
separate ones for each one of these may be
provided.
APRON
 TERMINAL BUILDING
The airport terminal building or buildings should provide
adequate facilities for all passengers arriving and
departing from the aircraft and accommodation for
airline and administrative personnel. The building may
include provision for services such as booking offices
for various airlines serving the airport and other offices
of management including passport and customs
control area for international traffic, a restaurant,
weather bureau, waiting rooms with bath rooms,
baggage and mail rooms, public telephone booths, etc.
Hence terminal building are provided to facilitate the
passenger and all needs of the passenger are meet
with efficiently.
TERMINAL BUILDING
APPROACH ZONE
 CONTROL TOWER
A tower at an
airfield from which
air traffic is
controlled by radio
and observed
physically and by
radar.
 PARKING AREA
Parking is a specific
area of an airport
at which vehicles
park.
 CLASSIFICATION OF AIRPORTS

INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
DOMESTIC AIRPORT
DEFENSE AIRPORT
 INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
An international
airport is an airport
that offers customs
and immigration
facilities for
passengers
travelling between
countries.
 DOMESTIC AIRPORT
A domestic airport is an
airport that handles only
domestic flights—flights
within the same country.
Domestic airports do not
have customs and
immigration facilities and so
cannot handle flights to or
from a foreign airport.
Mumbai domestic airport
 DEFENSE AIRPORT
A military base is a
facility directly
owned and operated
by or for the military
or one of its branches
that shelters military
equipment and
personnel, and
facilitates training and
operations.
Grizzly Le Bourget 2011
 SITE SELECTION OF AN AIRPORT
 Considered all the activities of an airport.
Air atmospheric condition.
Accessibility of ground transport.
Availability of land for expansion.
Surrounding observation.
Availability of utilities around the airport.
 AIRPORT SURVEYS
• METEOROLOGICAL SURVEY.
• TOPOGRAPHICAL SURVEY.
• APPROACH-ZONE SURVEY.
• MATERIAL SURVEY.
• SOIL SURVEY.
• DRAINAGE SURVEY.
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