Re-Write of ‘Airport Design’

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Re-Write of Airport Design

• A New Focus for Advisory Circular 150/5300-13

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The Big Picture

• Why?

• Who?

• What?

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AC 150/5300-13 Re-Write Highlights

• Design Standards Concepts
• Modification of Standards
• Improved Organization
• Taxiway Layout Guidance
• Airplane Design Groups
• TERPS and Other Standards
• Airport Data and ALP

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Design Standards Concepts

• Multiple Goals
• Multiple Users
• Types of Standards
• Flight Standards
• Airport Standards
• Federal Funding Programs
• Planning
• Environmental Regulations

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Modification of Standards

• Airport Standards A Tiered Model
• Highest Level
• Maintains airport utility
• Provides long term economic investment
• Flexible Accommodates changing demand
• Lowest Level
• Provides essential safety requirements
• Applies restrictions when, how, who
• Not flexible May only be valid for one point in
  time

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Improved Organization

• Objectives
• All related information can be found in one place
• Primary reference source for any airport design
  issue
• Use external references whenever possible
• Built-In calculations using Adobe pdf files

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Improved Organization

• Chapters
• Regulatory Requirements
• Airport Design Planning Considerations
• Runway Design
• Taxiway Design
• Aprons
• Navigational Aids
• Airfield Bridges

• Appendices
• Glossary
• Aircraft Characteristics
• Compass Calibration Pad
• Jet Blast
• Wind Analysis
• End-Around Taxiways
• Acronyms

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Taxiway Layout Guidance

• Airport layout and taxiway arrangement can be a
  significant factor in preventing runway
  incursions
• Engineering Brief 75- Incorporation of Runway
  Incursion Prevention into Taxiway and Apron
  Design, 11/19/07
• Design strategies or recommendations
• Not airport design standards
• Airfield design is often a balancing act
• Need to ensure that runway incursion potential is
  considered for any design proposal

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Taxiway Layout Guidance

• Taxiway Computer Model / Fillet Design
• Displaced Threshold Issues With Runway Taxiway
  Separation
• Taxiway Geometric Layout Can Aid In Preventing
  Runway Incursions
• Engineering Brief 75 Incorporation Of Runway
  Incursion Prevention Into Taxiway And Apron
  Design
• Collaborative Effort Between The 5300-13 Re-write
  Team, FAA Runway Safety Offices And Mitre Corp

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Engineering Brief 75

• Provides Taxiway Design Recommendations
• Consider Runway Incursion Prevention While
  Planning And Designing Any Taxiway Changes
• Use Recommendations To Remedy Hot Spots

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Engineering Brief 75 Key Points

• Limit aircraft crossing active runways
• Crossing taxiway within the last third of the
  runway
• Maintain standard signage, marking, and lighting
  configurations
• Use right-angle taxiway/ runway intersections
  (except high speed exits)
• Avoid wide expanses of pavement at runway entry
• Limit the number of taxiways intersecting at one
  point
• Avoid direct access from terminal ramps to runway
• High speed exit taxiways should not lead directly
  a runway crossing

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Engineering Brief 75 Airfield Concept
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Airplane Design Groups

• Fewer than today
• 12 categories today versus 9 proposed
• Improves safety
• Provides for economical long term investment
• May increase near term costs
• May require more Modification of Standards
• Drivers for change
• Regional, business, and micro jets
• Technology trends

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TERPS and Other Standards

• Not Airport Standards
• Developed to implement specific requirements
• Related to, but not the same as airport standards
• Part 77
• Minimize discussion in new AC
• Notification, analysis, and airspace protection
  of off-airport proposals
• May affect airport clearance standards-
  eligibility
• TERPS
• Safety of flight standards only
• Must be accommodated by Airport Standards
• Airport standards need (must have) agreement from
  Flight Standards

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Airport Data and ALP

• Uses
• Airport Design Evaluation
• Airspace
• Procedure Development
• Publications
• Airports-GIS
• Single source, available to all of FAA as well as
  airport operators and consultants
• Complete description what and how it can be used
• Facilitate existing processes
• Planning
• Design Coordination
• Construction
• NOTAMS

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• Thank you!
• Any (more) questions?

-Ken Jacobs, FAA