Airport planning

Steps in preparing a airport master plan

four main steps

1. General consideration or guide
2. types of activity involved

• policy planning
• economic planning
• physical planning development
• environmental planning
• financial planning

    3. steps in planning process

• prepare a master planning
• inventory and document existing condition
• projection of ATC
• determine gross facility requirement 
• evaluate existing and potential constraints
• agree upon relative importance or priority of various elements
• airport type
• constraints
• political and other considertaions
• develop several conceptual for purpose of comparative analysis
• review and screen alternative conceptual plans
• select most acceptable and appropriate alternative prepare in the final form

    4. plan update recommendations