Designing the Canadian airports or the future

机场客运大楼由几个相互作用的设施和流程组成。过去几十年，航空运输量每年增长超过5%，在可预见的未来，预计仍将以类似的速度增长，因此，提供足够的航站楼容量对国家机场系统的良好运行至关重要。这类建筑的设计是一个复杂的工程问题，必须以综合的方式处理，寻求最佳的系统性能，同时允许设计的灵活性。在加拿大，由于加拿大主要机场存在美国海关和移民预通关，这一问题变得更加复杂。机场工程的两个方面在现有文献中没有得到充分或适当的解决。首先，没有尝试将客运大楼和机场机场侧的设计结合起来。这是机场研究中的一个严重缺陷，因为乘客和飞机交通是相互关联的；机场一侧和航站楼都在争夺土地；机场一侧的布局和运营将受到客运大楼布局和运营的影响，反之亦然。其次，很少有人注意到设计参数的不确定性。通常，机场设施的设计是基于对未来20年的详细预测。在一个瞬息万变的行业里，这些预测不太可能实现。需要一种新的方法来支持机场设施的长期设计，并适当考虑这些不确定因素。在机场客运大楼的设计中，根据问题的性质和复杂程度，可能需要不同的技术。在这项研究中，将建立基于排队论、工程经济学和数学优化的分析模型，以帮助理解机场航站楼设施设计中涉及的主要变量之间的复杂关系。模拟现在是一种非常成熟的评估复杂交通系统的技术，也将被广泛使用。

The airport passenger building is comprised of several interacting facilities and processes. With air transportation growing over 5% a year in the last few decades and still expected to grow at similar rates in the foreseeable future, the issue of providing enough terminal capacity is crucial to the well-functioning of the national airport system. The design of such buildings is a complex engineering problem that must be approached in an integrated manner, seeking optimal system performance, while allowing for flexibility in the design. In Canada, the problem is made even more complex by the existence of the U.S. customs and immigration pre-clearance at the principal Canadian airports. Two aspects of airport engineering have not been sufficiently or properly addressed in the existing literature. First, no attempt has been made to integrate the design of the passenger building and the airport airside. This is a critical shortcoming in airport research, as passenger and aircraft traffic are inter-related; both the airside and the terminal building compete for land; and the layout and operation of the airside will be affected by the layout and operation of the passenger building and vice-versa. Second, there has been little attention paid to the uncertainty in the design parameters. Typically, the design of airport facilities is based on detailed forecasts up to 20 years ahead. In a rapidly changing industry, those forecasts are very unlikely to be realised. A new approach is needed to support the long-term design of airport facilities with proper consideration of these uncertainties. In designing airport passenger buildings, different techniques may be required according to the nature and complexity of the problem. In this research, analytical models based on queuing theory, engineering economics and mathematical optimisation will be developed to help understand the intricate relationships between the main variables involved in the design of airport terminal facilities. Simulation, now a very well-established technique for the evaluation of complex transportation systems, will also be used extensively.