The Cost-Effective

Airport Concept
Frankfurt, 4th February 2014
 Introduction

Development of the concept

Solutions

Conclusions

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1. Introduction
Why has the CE concept been developed?

To minimize the OPERATIONAL costs

To reduce the investment costs

To increase the revenues

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1. Introduction
How has it been developed?

1. Describing the background: vision, future forecasts

and trends;
2. Analysis of a reference airport: operational analysis;
of a current airport and bottleneck detection;
3. Solution generation: solving bottlenecks;
4. Value assessment.

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2. Background of the concept
How has it been developed?

Future trends in key areas

Future stakeholder’s objectives

Specific objectives of the CE concept

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2. Background of the concept
Key factor areas relevant for the CE concept
Demography Growing of world population

Society Evolution of a global middle class

Door-to-door service expected

Mobility Robustness of the transport chain
Increase in automation: need to ensure reliability/robustness
Positive impact on personnel costs
Negative impact on maintenance costs
Technology Smaller staff costs by transferring employees to
assignments with better potential for direct profit
Increase of the maintenance costs
Expenses on environmentally friendly and social friendly
Environment aircraft technologies.
Maximum utilisation of resources will be necessary

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2. Background of the concept
Key challenges derived from Vision 2050
1. Processes cost-efficiency and maximized throughput
2. Intermodality: enabling seamless flow between modes
3. Eliminations of bottlenecks at the terminal
4. Elimination of peak demand – spread the demand
5. Elimination of transfer delays
6. Extend information sharing beyond air transport
7. Finding common goals for stakeholders
8. Simplification of infrastructure to enable maximum
throughput at lowest costs

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3. Scope and objectives
Boundary conditions derived from Vision 2050

Vision 2050+ (situational context)

Airport as nodes into New airport operational

Transportation Network concepts implementation

Cost-Effectiveness

New design of terminal

New technology implemeted
focused on Cost-Effectiveness

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3. Scope and objectives
Objectives for the CE airport concept
ADD VALUE FOR AIRPORT AND STAKEHOLDERS IN 2050

BE COST-EFFECTIVE (Area: Economics) BE ULTRA-GREEN (Area: Substainability) BE TIME-EFFICIENT (Area: Mobility)

Minimize throughput time of

Reduce energy consumption
passengers

Minimize throughput time of

Reduce cost Increase revenues Reduce emissions
aircraft

Reduce Increase Keep noise ≤ legal limit Have seamless intermodality

aeronautical aeronautical
cost revenues
Optimal use of resources (recycling)
Reduce non- Increase non-
aeronautical aeronautical
cost revenues Optimal use of water

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3. Scope and objectives
Objectives for the CE airport concept

Costs Revenues

 Passenger Service
 Ground Handling
 Commercial Activities

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4. CE concept airport reference
A look at the current airports…
EN-ROUTE

PASSENGERS BAGGAGE

AIRSIDE INFRASTRUCTURE (e.g. runways, taxiways, platform, hangars, etc.)

TURNAROUND SECURITY SAFETY BAGGAGE MAINTENANCE

Scope boundary

LANDSIDE INFRASTRUCTURE (e.g. terminal, offices, hotels, shops, etc.)

Security Safety Baggage Check-in Customs Real-estate Retail People flows

INTERMODAL INFRASTRUCTURE (e.g. runways, taxiways, platform, hangars, etc.)

SAFETY PEOPLE FLOWS

PASSANGERS BAGGAGE

ORIGIN / DESTINATION
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 INTERMODAL (ARRIVALS & DEPARTURES)

COMMERCIAL SERVICES

LANDING TAKE-OFF

CHECK-IN
SECURITY AND
PASSANGER PASSPORT
DEBOARDING CONTROL

BOARDING
PROCESSING BAGGAGE
UNLOADING

LOADING

TAXI OUT
TAXI-IN

AIRCRAFT TURNAROUND (AIRCRAFT PROCESSES)

ATM

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4. CE concept airport reference
A look at the Cost Structure of Airports
Other non-aero, 10%
Car park, 2% Landing, 21%
Landing
Direct sales, 4%
Passenger
Recharges, 4% Aircraft parking
Handling
Other aero
Rents
Concessions
Recharges
Passenger, 20%
Concessions, 16% Direct sales
Car park
Other non-aero
Rents, 8%
Aircraft parking, 1%
Other aero, 1% Handling, 13%

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4. CE concept airport reference
A look at the Average Revenue Structure
Non-operating
Other non- income, 6%
aeronautical, 9% Passenger related charges
Food & Beverage, Passenger related Aircraft related charges
2% charges, 24% Terminal rental fees (NA)
Advertising, 2%
Ground handling
Car rental, 3% Retail
Parking
Real estate, 7% Real estate
Car rental
Advertising
Parking, 7% Aircraft related
charges, 18% Food & Beverage
Other non-aeronautical

Retail, 11% Non-operating income

Terminal rental fees
Ground handling, 5% (NA), 6%

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4. CE concept airport reference
A look at the Forecasted Cost Structure of future airport

Security, 15%
Staff, 15%

Energy, 3%

ITS, 1%
Repairs and
maintenance, 20%

Depreciation, 35%
Materials and supplies, 11%

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5. CE concept solutions
Solutions for 2050 airports.
CHECK-IN SMART DEVICES

DOOR-TO-DOOR
BAGGAGE DROP-OFF
TRANSPORTATION

SECURITY CHECK Implementation of new THz TECHNOLOGY

technologies
PASSPORT CONTROL BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION

BOARDING ON-BOARD BOARDING DEVICE

Functions accommodated
Functions accommodated
by the terminal resulting
by the terminal resulting
robust floor plan and high Lower labour costs
simple narrow floor plan
labour costs and reduced Maximised throughput
reduced labour costs and
throughput due to
higher throughput
bottlenecks.

WALKTHROUGH
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CE Airport Concept
5. CE concept solutions
Best ideas
Satellite Airport & City Center Terminal Intermodal transporation hub including airport terminal
Sharing landside costs and revenues Shared-property commercial facilities
High level of automation and integration Automated apron, integrated security systems
Smarter Aircraft Airplanes less dependent on ground facilities
Screening on-the-go THz-based security screening of walking passengers
On-board self boarding Aircraft systems aware of who's on board
Fully Integrated IT Services No service desk - use your smartphone!
Remote Towers More efficient ATC service
Self-Cleaning Materials No cleaning equals faster turnarounds
Integrated Air-Ground Digital Data Exchange D-ATIS, SWIM, etc.
Synthetic Vision Reduced use of runway/taxiway lighting
Active buildings Heat recuperation, LED/FIPEL lighting, etc.

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6. Best ideas of the CE concept (1)
Satellite Airport & City Center Terminal
Intermodal transporation hub including airport terminal.

• In an extremely cost-sensitive
world, resource sharing will be
crucial.

• This may result in satellite

airports with a passenger
terminal located in the city
center, shared among different
transport modes and perhaps
a shopping mall too.

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6. Best ideas of the CE concept (2)
On-board self boarding
Aircraft systems aware of who's on board.

• The Terminal is equipped with the

advanced IT solutions that allows to
identify passengers and provide
personalised information for them, so
that they can proceed to the aircraft
without having checked several time
and wait in different purpose ques.

• The final check is the boarding check

that is to establish that the particular
passenger is to board that particular
aircraft.

• This is done by the aircraft built in on-

board equipment based on biometric
or other for example IT technology.
(retina scan, fingerprint recognition,
identification by the smart
communication device, etc.)

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 6. Best ideas of the CE concept (3)
Remote Towers
More efficient ATC service.

• Use of available controller resources and

capacity on airports in adverse weather
conditions.
• Avoid the cost of keeping dedicated
controllers at some controlled airports that
are not very frequently used.
• Avoid loss of capacity I case of low visibility
operations in bad weather conditions
• Gain cost efficient and safe use of the
capacity that regional airports provide to
the air transport system while supporting
the overall ATM infrastructure
• Ensure an efficient operation of
smaller/regional airport ATM by economies-
of-scale in improving allocation of staff
• No need for building a costly structure
equipped with high cost equipment at every
regional airport.

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6. Best ideas of the CE concept (+1)
Walk through security check corridor
A Time-efficient solution can be also Cost-effective…

• If the operation cost

gains recover the higher
investment cost in time
than new ICT solution
can support the CE
concept.
• Positive impacts:
Reduction in waiting time
Seamless flow of passengers
• Implementation issues:
Users’ acceptance

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 7. Overarching concept description
Objectives for the CE airport concept

Connected to the Small terminal

Far from the city Commercial activities
intermodal building compared to
centre out of the terminal
transportation node the throughput

Passengers are connected to the terminal systems

The sole purpose of the terminal is the passenger
via smart devices receiving and providing necessary
processing via built in automated systems providing
information without any human interaction –
maximum throughput.
Walkthrough Terminal

As the party generating a great deal of traffic at the

Enter to the terminal is located at the high density
transportation node and as one of the investors in
traffic transportation nod supporting the necessary
the node commercial facilities the airport is entitled
intermodal connection
to have a certain revenue of it.

The location of the intermodal transportation nod is

irrelevant. It can be in front of the terminal or in the
city centre connected to the terminal via dedicated
high speed transportation facility.
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8. Conclusion
Maximum throughput of passangers
Increase aeronautical revenues
and flights

Increase safety
Automated services
Lower costs

Intermodality
Direct connection to intermodal
transportation node
Commercial revenues

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8. Conclusions and recommendations

Challenges Objectives
Vision Future
& boundary for CE Solutions
2050 conditions airport steps

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