Guidebook for Planning and Implementing Automated People Mover Systems at Airports (2010) / Chapter Skim
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7This chapter provides a history of APM systems with an emphasis on airport APMs. The initial airside and landside airport APMs are then described in detail, followed by a more general description of the evolving role of both airside and landside systems over the last four decades.
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with an extensive project at the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport (DFW) , the 13-mile AIRTRANS system.
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used APM technology as an integral part of their configuration for airside and landside connections. The second driver of APM growth was the inadequacy of existing transport technologies.
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Tampa International Airport In the early 1960s the Hillsborough County Aviation Authority identified the need to expand capacity at Tampa International Airport while maintaining a high level of service (LOS) to airline passengers.
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and Dashaveyor, the airport board asked these two firms to partner with larger companies for financial purposes. Varo partnered with LTV Aerospace Corporation, and Dashaveyor partnered with Bendix, and later Westinghouse Airbrake Company (WABCO)
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range of conveyance service and allowed an origin/destination terminal design to transform itself into one of the largest airline hub airports in the world. 3.1.5 The Airside Shuttle Era: 1970s–1980s The original airport APM system was the airside shuttle system at Tampa in 1971.
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ness to publicly fund new transportation systems research and development gave rise to early APMs. The technology found its niche in meeting the growing conveyance needs of rapidly expanding airports in the United States, and later in Europe and Japan, during the 1970s and 1980s.
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landside (or non-secure side) , an APM typically connects the airport processing functions with other landside facilities such as parking, car rental, or regional transit.
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3.2.3 Landside APM Systems APM systems that operate on the non-secure side of the airport are called landside APM systems. These systems transport passengers between multiple processing terminals or between processing terminals and other landside activity centers at the airport.
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parking may have hourly demands from 1,000 to 2,500 pphpd and range from 1,500 ft to 2 miles. For remote facilities located more than 3 miles from the main terminal, buses are the more typical transport technology.
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17 Airport YearOpened Alignment Configuration Service To Length (miles) 1 Houston 1981 Loop Terminals 1.02 London Gatwick 1987 Shuttle Terminals, Intermodal 0.7 Tampa 1990 Pinched Loop Parking, Car Rental 0.6 Paris–Orly 1991 Pinched Loop Terminals, Intermodal 4.5 Chicago 1993 Pinched Loop Terminals, Parking, Intermodal 2.7 Newark 1996 Pinched Loop Terminals, Parking, Intermodal, Car Rental 3.2 Minneapolis/St.
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