Airport Planning

Introduction

This cours covers the basic concepts and steps involved in planning of the airport , participants will be taught the phases of the planning process based on ICAO SARPS

Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Conduct airport system plan to meet the needs of the region.
• Define the levels of plans.
• Conduct airport master plan. (learning outcome)
• Recall the elements of airport master plan.
• Conduct capacity analysis.
• Identify the airport facilities requirements.
• Identify the potential airspace limitations.
• Assess the factors that influencing the selection of the airport location.
• Assess the factors that influencing the airport size.
• Conduct land-use planning.
• Evaluate the environmental potential effects.
• Conduct economic and financial feasibility for the alternative plans.
• Explain the guidelines for the structure of the master plan.
• Assess the factors that the airport layout depends on.
• Identify the requirements data for master planning.
• Explain the importance of continuous airport system planning.
• Differentiate between PRACTICAL CAPACITY and ULTIMATE CAPACITY.
• Recognize the components of the airfield.
• Consider the relationship between capacity, demand, and delay.
• Assess factors that affect capacity.
• Evaluate factors that affect maximum number of aircraft operations.
• Determine runway capacity.
• Calculate the annual aircraft delay.
• Review the annual service volume that used as a reference in preliminary planning.
• Estimate the procedures for annual service volume.
• Evaluate gateway capacity.
• Review the arrangement of runways and taxiways.
• Assess deferent types of the runway configurations.
• Evaluate the runway configuration summary.
• Verify the design of holding aprons.
• Explain the relationship between the terminal area and runways.
• Conduct wind analysis and wind rose calculation.
•  Test and judge the requirements of obstruction.
• Identify the taxiway system.
• Evaluate the highest point on landing area according to sea level.
• Select airport reference point.
• Consider the factors that affects air traffic calculations.
•  Assess the capacity driver factors.
• Calculate FIR airspace capacity.
• Consider capacity analysis in establishing halls buildings terminals.
• Use the statistical estimations & specification of trend curves to forecast (future traffic).

Who Sould Attend

• Airport managers
• Airport engineers
• Aerodrome quality and compliance managers
• Airport supervisors
• Civil engineers, architects and other contractors
• Managers of civil aviation authorities

Course Content

• Module 1: Civil Airport Planning
• Module 2: Airport Capacity Analysis Purposes
• Module 3: Configuration
• Module 4: Introduction to Forecasting Analysis
• Module 5: Landsite
• Module 6: Master Planning
• Module 7: Annex 14 & OLS

Prerequisite

Annex 14 V 1

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Course Duration

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