ABSTRACT
KEY POINTS: This building type is subject to constant evolution and change Terminals are now more like shopping malls than Victorian
railway stations
Contents 1 Introduction 2 Airport passenger terminals 3 Landside functions 4 Airside functions 5 Aircraft and apron requirements 6 Bus and coach stations 7 Railway stations 8 Bibliography
1 INTRODUCTION
1.01 This chapter addresses the aspects of passenger requirements which are common to all terminals where passengers board aeroplanes, buses and coaches or railway trains or transfer between them. (Note that for practical purposes the consideration of baggage systems is limited to the airports section.)
1.02 Space standards One person’s congestion is another’s profit: space standards are variable and subjective. The objective solution is to quote from the concept of Standard of Service. The application of this is common to all terminals and interchanges, and the differences arise, for example, from the amounts of baggage involved. Table I shows levels of service related to unit space standards in different types of space. For many passengers the criterion by which terminals such as airports are judged is the walking distance between one mode of transport and another. Although there is an inevitability about the length of a railway station platform or an airport pier, design can mitigate the strain of walking distance by providing passenger conveyors (see Chapter 5).
