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Item A regional airport for Lubbock program(1969-12) Wood, Lawrence W."The increased air traffic volume of the 1970's calls for the effective advance planning of airports and facilities as a part of comprehensive planning for an area. The large numbers of new and high capacity airplanes entering airlines service and general avaition activity impose a responsibility upon aircraft owners and operators to provide adequate airport and ground facilities to serve them." To meet with this large growth of air traffic, the Lubbock airport must expand. At present the existing facility enplanes 157,000 peopleo In 1968 and future demands for 1980 predict 410,000 to 700,000 people. The city of Lubbock recognizes this problem and has contracted its studyo The airport master plan is the result of that study and the basic runway layouts will be a part of this thesis. The primary goals of this study are basic to all airport demands and problems. The basic problem at Lubbock is today an architectural one. The airport does not make a statement to the visitors or to the city. As a major port of arrival and departure, it must do so. An airport that is truly representative of the city of Lubbock is essential in the more subtle influences that it can produce; for example, the economics of the area could improve if the airport were better, and the city itself might draw more industry and a wider variety of business to the area. The airport is a revenue producing operation and a better facility can increase this income. The basic problems inherent in an airport should be discussed so the designer can understand and solve these in the best and most economical way possible. The following goals should also be defined: 1. To provide for a present and future passenger demand 2. To decrease walk~g time from car to check-in and check-in to plane. 3. Maximum ease of baggage pick-up and handling 4. Revenue production 5. Efficient passenger services, car-rental, cabs, etc. 6. To provide a building or buildings that function with maximum efficiency and minimum maintenance. 7. To be a'Qle to adapt to future increases in airplane design and sizes. In short, the terminal building must be for the convenience of the passenger. It must provide the safest possible conditions for the passengers as well as the employee, and for the economy of terminal development. The segregation of traffic flow must be based on function to avoid disorientation and to eleminate passenger confusion. For this thesis, I plan to programme a terminal for 1980 showing how it can expand for 1990 or 2000 year service. I feel that this will give a more realistic approach to the problem.Item A regional airport for Lubbock, Texas(1970-05) Wood, Lawrence W.The design of the Lubbock Regional Airport is based on the maximum projections of aviation growth for 1980. In order to make the design as flexible as possible, spaces and areas are designed to meet or expand to the projected needs of 1985 or 1990, depending on the growth of aviation in Lubbock. My major goal in this project was to make an architectural statement that would reflect and generate growth and be a mental focal point of aviation for the people of Lubbock.Item Beyond current means : meeting public aviation demand in the border region in 2035(2010-05) Phillips, Natasha Allyn; Sletto, BjørnAlthough not often discussed in planning curriculum across the United States, airports are a very significant part of the country’s transportation infrastructure. With so much emphasis placed on ground transportation modes such as light rail, bus, and bike, the impact of aviation on the transportation world gets lost in translation. This study seeks to bring airport planning back into the conversation by analyzing population projections, income, and industry and their affect on airport preparedness to meet increasing population demands. By using population projections through 2035 for the State of Texas, gross population and population growth rates were used to select counties within Texas that may be most in need of airport planning considerations. Counties along the Texas-Mexico border were analyzed in further detail for planning considerations and preparedness based on their population growth rates. Hidalgo County’s McAllen-Miller International Airport (MFE) was found to be proactively seeking changes to their airfield that matched recommendations based on their population increase. However, the level of coordination with city or county level authorities is lacking.Item Cooperation between high-speed rail and air travel in the United States(2011-05) Suski, Shea Matthew; Zhang, Ming, 1963 Apr. 22-; Walton, MichaelThe United States as a whole is embarking on the historic task of implementing high-speed rail (HSR) throughout the country in an attempt to improve regional mobility, including congestion at some of the nation’s busiest airports. However, despite the wide overlapping of service that both air and HSR provide and the goal of reducing airport congestion, little discourse has occurred on the topic of how these two modes might interact in an intermodal context. This report explores how air travel and HSR might cooperate in the US, which is defined as an explicit attempt by the two modes to utilize each other in order to transport a passenger to their final destination. It will document potential benefits of cooperation, survey how cooperation works elsewhere in the world, and investigate the current climate within the US for cooperation, including a review of current HSR plans and analysis of air travel data. This information will form the basis for suggested airports for the integration of HSR and air travel, and for how US airlines might utilize HSR. Lastly, lessons learned will form a list of best practices to follow in order to better insure a cooperative and successful relationship between HSR and air travel.Item System-wide capacity enhancement for the future U.S. airport network: a new generation hub and route optimization model(Texas Tech University, 1990-05) Patoskie, Joseph D.The welfare of today's air travelers is being compromised with the establishment of airline "fortresses" at many of our nation's major hub airports. The limited capacity of these sites has increased congestion both in the air and on the ground, causing system-wide passenger delays. Proposals to remedy the situation have included computer-based modernization of air traffic control, the building of more airports (and/or the enlargement of existing ones), price controls on slots (i.e., bidding), and government re-regulation. These proposals have focused primarily on the airport as the source of the capacity problem; however, relatively little has been accomplished in the way of a system-wide approach. If direct nonstop service could be offered between every city-pair, then passenger utility would be maximized; and if all destinations could be connected with the shortest possible span, air service utility would be maximized. Obviously neither of these extremes can exist, for the maximum benefit of one represents the greatest cost in utiHty to the other. Possibilities exist between these extremes, however, that offer "optimized" air passenger service in some sense. In this investigation the computer implementation of a mathematical model was developed to logically explore these possibilities in a spatial way to help planners optimize air passenger service-as it relates to airport capacity enhancement planning. The model was demonstrated on an actual region where measurements of service utility and passenger convenience were determined and compared with other common network types. Results indicated that in terms of network distance, route directness, and number of intermediate stops, branching networks compared favorably with hub-andspoke networks, but with a significant decrease in major hub congestion.Item System-wide capacity enhancement for the future U.S. airport network: a new generation hub and route optimization model(1990-08) Patoskie, Joseph D.The welfare of today's air travelers is being compromised with the establishment of airline "fortresses" at many of our nation's major hub airports. The limited capacity of these sites has increased congestion both in the air and on the ground, causing system-wide passenger delays. Proposals to remedy the situation have included computer-based modernization of air traffic control, the building of more airports (and/or the enlargement of existing ones), price controls on slots (i.e., bidding), and government re-regulation. These proposals have focused primarily on the airport as the source of the capacity problem; however, relatively little has been accomplished in the way of a system-wide approach. If direct nonstop service could be offered between every city-pair, then passenger utility would be maximized; and if all destinations could be connected with the shortest possible span, air service utility would be maximized. Obviously neither of these extremes can exist, for the maximum benefit of one represents the greatest cost in utiHty to the other. Possibilities exist between these extremes, however, that offer "optimized" air passenger service in some sense. In this investigation the computer implementation of a mathematical model was developed to logically explore these possibilities in a spatial way to help planners optimize air passenger service-as it relates to airport capacity enhancement planning. The model was demonstrated on an actual region where measurements of service utility and passenger convenience were determined and compared with other common network types. Results indicated that in terms of network distance, route directness, and number of intermediate stops, branching networks compared favorably with hub-andspoke networks, but with a significant decrease in major hub congestion.