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An Overview of Airport Design and Key Transportation Statistics

This document explores the evolution of air travel and airport design, highlighting significant milestones such as the Wright brothers' first flight in 1903 to the expansive network of 19,600 airports in the U.S. It presents compelling statistics, including passenger miles traveled and comparisons between air travel and highway travel safety. With a focus on airspace management and airport planning studies, this comprehensive overview emphasizes the considerations that shape modern airport systems, including environmental impacts, land use, and community access.

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An Overview of Airport Design and Key Transportation Statistics

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  1. Airport Design Introduction

  2. Some Stats • 1903: Wright brothers fly 120 ft • 2003: US Domestic airlines 500,000 miles • 2003: US highways 3.95 million miles • 2007: US Domestic flights 679 mil pax • 19,600 airports in the US • 10% Military • 27% Publicly owned

  3. Some Stats (cont’d) • 2006 • Air travel: 7.7 billion VMT • Highway travel: 2,989 billion VMT • 2006 • Passenger Miles Traveled: 4.8 trillion • Air travel 11%

  4. Passenger-miles by Mode

  5. Passenger-miles by Public Mode

  6. Trip Length by Mode

  7. Ton-miles by Mode

  8. Length of Freight Haul by Mode

  9. Airplane Safety • The safest transport mode • 2007 • Fatalities: 531 commercial; 500 GA • Crashes: 54 commercial; 1800 GA • Highway • Fatalities: 45,000/yr • Crashes: 3.2 million

  10. US Airports • Atlanta: 42.6 million pax--1 • Chicago: 34.5 million pax--2 • New York: 12.5 million pax,--16 • Cincinnati: 7 million pax--31

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

  12. Airport Planning Studies • Airport System Plan • National • State • Regional • Airport Master Plan • Airport Project Plan

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

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

  15. General Layout

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