Ratio-based design hour determination for airport passenger terminal facilities

To avoid both over-design and under-sizing of airport passenger terminal facilities such as security checkpoints, the infrastructure is designed for a specifically determined design load. As such, load considered short period time, usually an hour operation, during which peak, though not necessarily maximum, demand occurs. For strategic planning applications, future loads can be by either fictitious flight schedules or ratio-based models forecast relationship between annual demand. This study presents two methods allow direct determination (DHL) facilities. The unsaturated DHL model considers observed flows in aggregated data. saturated includes several operational constraints limit actual DHL, limitations runway system fleet mix operating at airport. Both are applied to real-world airports, checkpoint estimated from large datasets covering multiple years. Results significant 5 % level suggest that proposed appropriate applications.