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。在过去的几十年里，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，提供足够的航站楼容量对国家机场系统的良好运作至关重要。这类建筑的设计是一个复杂的工程问题，必须以综合的方式来处理，寻求最佳的系统性能，同时允许设计的灵活性。在加拿大，由于美国海关的存在和加拿大主要机场的移民预清关，问题变得更加复杂。在现有文献中，机场工程的两个方面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空侧的设计结合起来。这是机场研究的一个关键缺陷，因为乘客和飞机交通是相互关联的；空侧和航站楼都在争夺土地；而空侧的布局和运行将受到客运楼布局和运行的影响，反之亦然。其次，对设计参数的不确定性关注较少。通常，机场设施的设计是基于长达20年的详细预测。在一个快速变化的行业中，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，并适当考虑到这些不确定性。在设计机场客运大楼时，根据问题的性质和复杂程度，可能需要不同的技术。在本研究中，将开发基于排队论、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，现在是一个非常完善的技术，用于评估复杂的运输系统，也将广泛使用。

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.