The report considers the subject of congestion at airport terminal buildings, access roads and parking areas. Such congestion increasingly threatens the capability of airports to serve passenger and freight carrying operations. Measuring the capacity of airport landside facilities and services is now as critical as capacity measurements for the airside taxiways and runways. As no generally accepted standards are said to exist for evaluating the level of service provided by landside facilities this trb review considers capacity assessment techniques and recommends guidelines that can be used by airportplanners to measure airport landside capacity. Part 1 of the reportcontains a general description of the airport landside and how its capacity is defined and measured. In part 2 guidance is given for applying these capacity definitions to specific functional components likely to represent constraints on an airport's ability to satisfy demand.
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