Identifying Congestion and Safety Risks Due to Heterogeneous Airport Curbside Activity and Remedial Solutions

Terminal curbs, particularly at large airports, feature a mix of activity. Private vehicles, taxis, airport shuttles, transit buses, and, most recently, transportation network activity (TNCs) all mix with pedestrians. This heterogeneity can make maintaining safe curbside operations a challenge, especially at high traffic volumes. Implementable measures and management methods, ranging from efficient countermeasures and technologies to policies, are vital to mitigate the congestion and safety risk caused by these heterogeneous conditions. A majority of airports do not have any monitoring or management systems for curbside activities, while some airports have already started to explore ways and approaches, such as advanced spatial sensing technologies (e.g., radar, LiDAR, camera) to monitor and manage curbside congestion and mitigate potential safety risks. There is a need to review remedial measures and management approaches, and provide insights into airports’ curbside congestion and safety problems. Understanding how airports can adapt these approaches to the dynamic environment with minimal infrastructure changes helps maximize the derived cost benefits. The objective of this research is develop guidelines of remedial solutions, including detection measures, for managing terminal curbside roadways that can be adapted to airports of various layouts and activity levels.

• Record URL:
  http://apps.trb.org/cmsfeed/TRBNetProjectDisplay.asp?ProjectID=5397
• Supplemental Notes:
  • This project was cancelled.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Terminated
• Funding: $350000
• Contract Numbers:

  Project 03-69

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Airport Cooperative Research Program

  Transportation Research Board
  500 Fifth Street, NW
  Washington, DC    20001

  Federal Aviation Administration

  800 Independence Avenue, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20591
• Project Managers:

  Navarrete, Joseph

• Start Date: 20230320
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 20230320

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Airport ground transportation; Curb side parking; Detection and identification; Traffic congestion; Traffic safety; Traffic surveillance
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01853999
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Transportation Research Board
• Contract Numbers: Project 03-69
• Files: TRB, RIP
• Created Date: Aug 9 2022 1:34PM