The Port Authority of NY & NJ: Terminal Planning Guidelines

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The airport passenger terminals owned by The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey are operated by private entities, commercial airlines, and the Port Authority. At most of the Port Authority’s passenger terminals, aircraft gates are under the control of the terminal operators. Nevertheless, all terminal operator alteration proposals are subject to Port Authority approval under the Tenant Alteration Application (TAA) and permitting process. The TAA references the Port Authority’s Planning & Design for Terminals and Facilities: Airport Standards Manual, dated May 2005 (First Edition); therefore, the terminal operators are subject to the terms of the Airport Standards Manual (the Manual), where applicable. The Manual establishes a general set of standards and performance criteria to maintain safe, functionally efficient, code-compliant, sound, and acceptable terminal area operations while ensuring airport customer satisfaction in the process. This document updates and retitles the Airport Standards Manual to Terminal Planning Guidelines.

These Guidelines are intended as an initial source of guidance for developing spatial requirements for common in-terminal facilities used to process passengers and their baggage. As such, supplemental references are provided to external publications that describe, in more detail, acceptable methodologies for calculating activity—specifically, peak daily and peak hourly activity, quantifying processor capacities, and deriving discrete processor requirements. New and emerging trends are also discussed to increase awareness of their potential effects on current guidance and the reasoning behind adoption of the current guidelines. These Guidelines are intentionally focused on a discussion of the fundamental principles and methodologies that should be considered when developing terminal requirements and layouts rather than mandated standards; even so, the Guidelines and supplemental references convey the Port Authority’s expectations for development or refurbishment of its terminals to consistently meet the quality service standards described herein.

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The Port Authority of NY & NJ (2013). Terminal Planning Guidelines.

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