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The Future of Airports - A customer-centric experience - Arcadis
The Future
of Airports
A customer-centric experience
The Future of Airports - A customer-centric experience - Arcadis
Contents
03 – Introduction

04 – Airports aren’t islands

06 – Customer champions count

08 – Mobility matters

10 – Customer-centric design

12 – Serious about sustainability

14 – Mildura Regional Airport
		 Master Plan

16 – Tyabb Airfield Precinct Plan

18 – Making it happen
The Future of Airports - A customer-centric experience - Arcadis
The case for customer-centric airports
The world has never been so accessible. The invention of flight has turned into
one of humankind’s greatest enablers - connecting people, communities and
companies - and opened up the world to those that can afford the price of a
simple plane ticket.
                                                 In 2018, airlines alone created       This white paper explores how
                                                 around $821bn of revenue on           airport owners and operators
                                                 46.1m flights, according to ITAT,     can balance the competing
                                                 and ATAG estimates that the           needs of preparing for the future
                                                 total aviation industry employs       while catering for the customer
                                                 over 65m people with a global         expectations of today.
                                                 economic impact of around
                                                 $2.7trillion from its many            We examine the industry through
                                                 associated services.                  the lens of five major trends:
                                                                                       • Enabling the airport city:
                                                 These economic benefits don’t           although airports have positively
                                                 come without costs, however. The        enabled globalization, they can
                                                 highly competitive nature of the        only survive and thrive if they
                                                 airline industry and the continued      have the support of their local
                                                 pressure on airport infrastructure      community;
                                                 both new and old means that
                                                 airport operators are facing          • Championing the customer: by
                             Nick Hutchinson     unprecedented challenges.               embracing the opportunities
             Global Leader - Airport Solutions                                           of digitization, passenger pain
                                                 To meet the expected growth             points and frustrations can be
                                                 forecasts (a potential doubling of      alleviated and even eliminated;
                                                 demand within the next 20 years)      • Embracing the challenge of
                                                 airport operators need to deliver       mobility: by integrating airports
                                                 their infrastructure upgrade            with as many different modes
                                                 and expansion programmes                of transport as possible, and
                                                 as efficiently as possible – and        embracing the efficiency
                                                 manage their existing assets more       opportunities of autonomous
                                                 effectively – against a backdrop of     vehicles, airports can
                                                 falling retail revenue, downward        revolutionize how passengers
                                                 pressure on fees earned through         get to airports, how they travel
                                                 airlines, and a revolution in the       around it, and how they get to
                                                 expectations of passengers on           their final destination;
                                                 the experience they expect from
                                                 an airport.                           • Customer-centric airport
                                                                                         terminal design: it’s not enough
                                                 Within the constraints of this          to be innovative, efficient and
                                                 competitive environment, airports       sustainable; airport operators
                                                 need to focus just as hard on           must also integrate the needs of
                                                 attracting customers – to become        customers into their terminal-
                                                 an airport of choice – as they must     design decisions;
                                                 on sustaining their infrastructure    • Being serious about
                                                 and adapting or improving their         sustainability: the obligations
                                                 existing business models.               and regulatory requirements
                                                                                         on the global aviation industry
                                                                                         will only increase as the world
                                                                                         confronts the climate-change
                                                                                         challenge.

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“There’s nothing like an
    airport for bringing you
             down to earth.”
       Richard Gordon, Novelist

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Airports aren’t islands
                                                                       In this new way of thinking,
                                                                       airports are no longer sterile,
                                                                       transactional places for waiting
Very few airports exist in isolation. Despite                          and passing through. Instead,
                                                                       they are more like smart cities,
their status as enablers of globalization, most                        where place-making, entertaining,
                                                                       and information access is just
airports can only survive and thrive with the                          as important as the provision
                                                                       of economic benefits and
support of their local communities.                                    long-distance travel. And, like
                                                                       cities, they will only thrive if the
                                                                       metropolitan areas around them
                              This conundrum is at the heart           can also flourish.
                              of the challenge facing airport
                              operators as they plan for the           Airports need to consider what
                              future. Unless an airport’s facilities   it will be like to work, live and
                              drive the local economy forward          travel in the surrounding area,
                              and provide benefits back to the         and how it can drive and support
                              community, local politics can            technology-based economic
                              hamper or even stop progress in          development within a surrounding
                              its tracks.                              smart city region.
                              This means addressing not just the       Airports are already significant
                              obvious issues of noise, pollution,      employers for the local community
                              air quality and congestion, but          – potentially up to 50,000 people
                              it also means tackling human             in some of the largest – but
                              factors head-on. By embracing            the infrastructure that these
                              positive community outreach,             places create can also provide
                              airports can show how the                significant community benefits.
                              community can feel connected             By taking a long-term view of an
                              to the airport – and not just            airport’s infrastructure upgrade
                              feel the jet blast of arriving and       programme, communities can be
                              departing planes.                        brought into an airport’s sphere
                              Mastering planning                       of influence in a beneficial way.
                                                                       Think of the positive impact that
                              To thrive in the future, airports        interconnecting metropolitan
                              need to view themselves in a             railways can have on improving
                              different way. They need to think        regional connectivity.
                              of themselves within the context
                              of an airport city – or ‘aerotropolis’   Enabling regional powerhouses
                              – where the area surrounding             Like cities, airports will need
                              the airport is just as important         to interconnect with the
                              as the airport itself, enabled by        region around it and become
                              the airport’s infrastructure and         a catalyst for aviation-related
                              economy. Schiphol Airport in             economic development, high
                              the Netherlands, for example,            value employment and regional
                              earns as much as 80 percent of           competitiveness. There is a
                              its operating revenue from areas         real opportunity for airports to
                              other than aviation – retail, hotels,    move away from being simply
                              leisure and entertainment, R&D           a functional and transactional
           Schiphol Airport   parks, light industry and logistics –    transport hub to become an
                              and it is not alone in this.             engaging, high-quality experience
                                                                       for passengers and citizens alike.
                              Dallas/Forth Worth International
                              Airport’s vast land mass is being
                              exploited to create new commercial
                              developments that are affiliated
                              with the airport’s economy.

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Customer champions count
It’s not often you find someone who actively looks forward to going
to an airport. Perhaps this would be different if every trip to the
airport today was queue and crowd-free. But for airports to succeed
in the next 20 years, they will need to find ways to make the whole
customer experience much more positive than it is today.

                                                               Global customer satisfaction
                                                               surveys reveal that the most
                                                               important factors affecting
                                                               customer satisfaction today are
                                                               security, retail, food and beverage,
                                                               infrastructure, wayfinding, check-
                                                               in and access. These issues are
                                                               likely to dominate in the future
                                                               too. But airports have a clear
                                                               opportunity to champion the
                                                               customer by taking advantage
                                                               of digitization to reduce or even
                                                               eliminate the most pressing
                                                               passenger pain points and
                                                               frustrations.

                                                               Facing forward
                                                               One particular source of
                                                               innovation is the use of facial
“There are those airports which make you feel better, and      recognition technology and
                                                               biometrics. Apple’s new range
   there are those airports that, when you go there, your      of iPhones have brought Face ID
 heart sinks: you can’t wait to get out of there. They both    technology into the mainstream,
    function as airports, but it’s the things that you can’t   and some airports have already
                                                               begun embracing biometrics to
                      measure that make them different.”       reduce check-in and security-
                                              Norman Foster    check times. These same
                                                               biometric technologies will also be
                                                               linked with baggage, allowing for
                                                               a lower-risk, lower-stress baggage
                                                               drop-off and collection routine.

                                                               The check-in process is already
                                                               automated at most airports,
                                                               with passengers able to check-in
                                                               beforehand, reserve and change
                                                               seats, and this has resulted in
                                                               significant reductions in check-
                                                               in queues within some airports.
                                                               There’s room for major progress,
                                                               though. Airports such as LAX
                                                               and Schiphol Airport have
                                                               implemented biometric check-
                                                               ins, but the approach is far
                                                               from common.

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will also be made more efficient
                                                                             through biometrics and bag-
                                                                             tracking technology, including
                                                                             onward delivery of baggage to the
                                                                             passenger’s final destination.

                                                                             The Process Problem
                                                                             These solutions are not without
                                                                             their challenges. Legislation in
                                                                             different countries will need to be
                                                                             coordinated to allow for seamless
                                                                             security and immigration checks,
                                                                             and a degree of pre-screening
                                                                             and trusted traveller programmes
“Where did I put                       Less screen-time                      will need to be implemented in
                                                                             order to speed up the process.
my bags?”                              Security screening is another         However, these are largely process
Airports such as those in              area that will take advantage of      improvements than significant
Copenhagen, Switzerland and            biometric technology to realize       technological challenges, and
Hong Kong have embraced                efficiency benefits. Already,         there is no doubt that airports will
the process of de-coupling             airports such as Dubai Airport        continue to rely on digitization for
passengers from their baggage          are using face-scanning to allow      their aviation operations.
by using electronic RFID tagging       for a more transparent security
and linking this with the check-in     process. Using a combination of       Digitization will help passengers
process. In this way, passengers       sensor techniques, passengers are     too. Digital wayfinding will
can drop their baggage off in          scanned as they pass, speeding        become commonplace, with
downtown (in the case of Hong          up the process and improving          handheld devices containing
Kong, it’s the MTR subway system       the passenger experience. These       real-time flight information,
that connects with the airport)        tunnels can contain a number of       departure gate information,
or within linked transport hubs,       different screening technologies      landing cards, wayfinding and
meaning that passengers can turn       – body scanners, metal detectors      baggage collection. Automated
up to the airport only carrying        and liquid detection – and more       gate systems will also make
hassle-free hand luggage.              technologies will be integrated       use of these digital wayfinding
                                       in the future. The IATA estimates     apps, helping to improve the use
Longer term, baggage pickups will      that biometrics will reduce waiting   of valuable airport space and
become even more flexible once         times at security gates by 40%.       reduce personnel costs – while
airports partner with established                                            also improving the passenger
courier companies to collect bags      As the systems become more            experience.
from wherever the passenger            sophisticated, security and
needs it, delivered in whatever        immigration can be linked,            The technology to do all of this
mode is most appropriate.              especially when the underlying        exists today, but the challenge for
                                       passenger databases for the           its use is one of real-time trusted
Mobile app technology and              airport and immigration systems       information. After all, the only way
real-time monitoring and               are integrated. The industry is       that passengers will truly relax at
communications means that              already working on the process        an airport is if they know that the
customers will be able to get real-    of integrating all data in an         information they are receiving is
time positioning on where their        airport into a single database,       trustworthy – and that the steps
baggage is, which will also have       structured in a standard way and      they need to take to reach their
the benefit of improving lost-         used much more efficiently. The       final destination will be friction
luggage reporting and processing.      same biometric and screening          free. But despite today’s mixed
                                       technology will make it much          results in delivering this vision, it
There are still issues to overcome     easier to board the plane at the      will be a reality sooner rather
– security of baggage when             departure gate.                       than later.
it is picked-up at hotels, for
example, and the laws governing        This also benefits passengers
security checks with biometrics        when they arrive at their
currently differ from country to       destination, where biometrics and
country – but there is a clear trend   common databases will lead to a
towards separating baggage and         massive reduction in immigration
passengers.                            bureaucracy. Baggage return

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“The problem with airports
  is that we go there when
 we need to catch a plane -
and because it’s so difficult
to find the way to the gate,
we tend not to look around
       at our surroundings.”
               Alain de Botton
        Philosopher and Author

                                 Mobility matters
                                 One of the biggest challenges passengers
                                 have with airports has to do with mobility
                                 - getting to the airport, travelling around
                                 the airport, and then finding their way to
                                 their final destination after landing. This
                                 is especially true now that airports are
                                 getting larger. However, airports have the
                                 opportunity over the next 20 years to
                                 fundamentally transform this passenger
                                 pain point - and they will need to, because
                                 passengers will actively seek out airports
                                 with the fastest, easiest and cheapest
                                 transport routes.

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This should not be surprising,         because of the in-built precision     There’s another reason that
as it is only a continuation of        of self-driving vehicles, parking     airports should embrace multi-
the trend towards digitization         spaces can be smaller, freeing up     modal transport services –
and convenience that has               more valuable land for other uses.    customers expect choice. By
revolutionized – and upended –         This shift in the technology of       considering travel to and from
the world of retail. It’s clear that   parking may well create greater       the airport through the lens of
airports must continue to work         bottlenecks closer to the airport     the customer, not just through
hard on being as efficient and         terminal buildings, as the demand     the lens of capital cost efficiency,
delay free as possible.                for ‘Kiss and Fly’ increases.         airports can proactively try to
                                       Passenger drop-off zones will         eliminate single points of failure in
“To the airport, driver”               therefore need to be larger, and as   the airport transport environment.
Within the airport environment,        close to the terminal as possible.    This will be a crucial step forward.
automated vehicle technology is
already being embraced to help
                                       Transit as a competitive              Optimized travel
move passengers to and from            advantage                             There is one more trend that
car parks and terminal buildings,      Fundamentally, airports will          should have a transformative
but this trend will continue apace     need to embrace a much more           impact on transport to and from
as the underlying technology           integrated approach to mobility       airports: Mobility as a Service
becomes mass market and even           planning in and around their          (MaaS). MaaS is currently being
more efficient.                        estate than is currently the case,    piloted in a business district in
                                       as each mobility transition will      Amsterdam in the Netherlands,
By 2037, mass electrification of       impact upon the other. Airports       and uses an integrated approach
the world’s vehicular transport        will also need to act as a catalyst   to sustainable transport by
infrastructure will have become a      by creating integrated transport      combining multiple modes of
reality, and airports can lead the     master plans with their feeder        transport into a single delivery
way on promoting the benefits of       cities.                               platform – in this case an app. In
automated and driverless vehicles                                            the same way that Uber or Lyft
as a way of alleviating congestion     One of the most important             provides access to drivers and cars
around the terminal buildings and      principles underpinning these         where and when you want them,
the airport estate.                    masterplans is the need to            the Mobility as a Service trial
                                       integrate airport infrastructure      enables users to plan journeys,
Parking planning                       with as many modes of transport       buy travel tickets, reserve car
There are other automation             as are economically and financially   shares or bikes, and pay for each
drivers too. As airports get bigger,   feasible. This may mean taking        instance of transport with a single
the distance between terminals         a long-sighted approach to            seamless payment system. The
and parking lots is increasing –       integrating airports with high-       ultimate aim is to try to change
with journeys of several kilometres    speed rail systems, for example,      travel behaviour and shift people
or more from long-term parking         which will help displace a number     towards more sustainable modes
now commonplace. This does             of short-haul flight options onto     of transport. In the not too distant
nothing to improve customer            more efficient high-speed rail        future, all available transport
satisfaction survey results. But       networks. Airports can therefore      options will be digitally connected
by using self-driving autonomous       proactively choose to cooperate       into one seamless experience on
vehicles – as used at Heathrow         – rather than compete – with          one app.
T5 in the UK, and several other        high-speed rail in the provision of
airports around the world – or         short to medium distance travel       Within the airport context,
driverless light rail solutions,       services, before they’re forced to,   Mobility as a Service would no
airports can give passengers an        either by regulation or by carbon     doubt improve the passenger
alternative to the near-ubiquitous     emissions reduction targets.          experience when travelling to and
irregular or unreliable shuttle bus                                          from the terminal.
solution.                              Light rail connections are also
                                       good additions to the mobility
Parking will change in other ways      systems surrounding airports. In
too over the next 20 years. When       cases such as Heathrow in the UK
cars incorporate self-driving          or Schiphol in the Netherlands,
technology, they will be able to       the travel time savings en route
park themselves in more remote         to the airports make a very good
locations, separating airport          business case for dedicated airport
infrastructure even further from       transit elsewhere.
parking infrastructure. And

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Customer-centric                                              The ongoing consolidation in
                                                              the airline industry – creating
                                                              ever-larger airline carriers – has
Given the projected growth in flight                          led to a significant reduction
                                                              in landing fees. The airlines are
numbers, airports will have to invest in                      taking advantage of their greater
                                                              buying power to drive down fees
expanding their physical infrastructure. In                   and airport operators are not in
                                                              a position to say no. They need a
a ‘business as usual’ approach to expansion,                  new approach.

waiting areas will need to be expanded,                       Design as competitive
along with baggage handling infrastructure                    advantage
                                                              There are a small but growing
and ticket processing in order to overcome                    number of airports – led by
                                                              Changi Airport in Singapore
congestion within the terminal building.                      – that are showing the way in
But a business as usual approach is no                        terminal design. They’re creating
                                                              better passenger experiences by
longer enough.                                                providing features such as quiet
                                                              zones, sleep pods and multi-
                                                              generational entertainment areas
                        Nor is innovation, efficiency or      – suitable for young and old alike
                        even sustainability in airport        – which could have the effect of
                        design. To become the airport         reducing passenger stress.
                        of choice, airport operators
                        must also integrate the needs         Changi’s new Jewel complex
                        of customers into their terminal      brings Singapore’s “City in a
                        design decisions.                     garden” concept to life in a vast
                                                              indoor garden, retail, hotel and
                        This is also a hard-nosed business    leisure destination just outside
                        decision. By creating spaces that     the airport’s terminal building.
                        passengers enjoy being in, airport    It’s a destination that airport
                        operators can give themselves a       passengers and local citizens alike
                        fighting chance of overturning the    can enjoy, including the 40-meter
                        trend of declining revenues from      high indoor waterfall and indoor
                        non-aviation activities.              tropical rain forest environment.

                        Handbags and gladrags                 Other airports – Orlando, Doha,
                                                              Indianapolis, for example – talk of
                        There are a number of reasons for     ‘Town Squares’ and ‘Civic Plazas’,
                        this decline. With duty-free and      and are unashamedly focusing on
                        luxury goods outlets selling the      leisure and entertainment. Doha,
                        same things the world over, many      in particular, has created a cultural
                        passengers feel unexcited by the      experience based around major
                        range of goods on offer. Also, the    pieces of art – both bought and
                        demographics of regular flyers are    specially commissioned. These
                        shifting towards those with less      airports want to create a sense
                        disposable income, meaning fewer      of place, where it’s pleasant to
                        retail purchases within airports.     stay, creating ‘experiences’ for
                        Revenues from parking and car         passengers that include arts and
                        rental services are also falling as   culture, music, movies, fine dining,
                        services such as Uber and Lyft        hotels and digital entertainment.
                        displace those formerly reliable      When done correctly, this design
                        sources of revenue.                   approach should create a virtuous
                                                              circle, where better passenger
                        This revenue shortfall is likely      experiences provide a greater
                        to continue, and is happening         opportunity to relax, which also
                        at a time when airports are also      bring about a greater willingness
                        facing another cash squeeze.          to spend.

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Finding your way
                                 All of these ‘experiential’ design
                                 features would be undermined if
                                 the processes guiding passengers
                                 to their planes weren’t similarly
                                 pleasurable. This is where digital
                                 technology can genuinely bring
                                 benefits to terminal design. By
                                 integrating in-terminal GPS and
                                 making use of augmented reality
                                 and automated gate-wayfinding,
                                 passengers will begin to trust that
                                 they are going where they need to
                                 in a timely manner.

                                 “It can hardly be a
                                 coincidence that no
                                 language on earth has
                                 ever produced the
                                 expression, ‘As pretty as
                                 an airport’.”
                                 Douglas Adams
                                 (The Long Dark Tea-Time
                                 of the Soul)

Singapore’s “City in a garden”

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Serious about sustainability
The aviation industry is under pressure to play a full role in the
global effort to reduce CO2 emissions. From 2021 until 2026, the
sector will be encouraged to voluntarily implement the ICAO’s
Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation
(CORSIA), with all member States expected to be on-board from
2027 through to 2035. And following the COP21 meeting in Paris
in 2015, an initial target was set for creating 50 carbon neutral
airports around the world by 2030, a target which was increased
in 2017 to 100.
                       Together with the airport              equation right from day one, but
                       specific requirements coming           long-established airports also
                       from the UN’s Sustainable              have significant opportunities
                       Development Goals, it’s clear that     to reduce their energy loads.
                       the obligations and regulatory         Given the increasing demand for
                       pressures on the global aviation       electricity, airports are introducing
                       industry will only increase as         more resilient utility operations
                       the world confronts the climate        through improved energy storage
                       change challenge.                      technology, smart metering and
                                                              smart grids to build resilience
                       Global impact, local                   against major outages.
                       pressure                               In Australia, for example,
                       As well as these global initiatives,   Brisbane Airport has installed a
                       airports are under increasing          major rooftop solar system that
                       pressure from more stringent           includes 22,000 solar panels
                       local operating environments,          across a 36,000 square meter
                       where licenses to operate – and        area spread across six sites. And
                       passenger preferences – are            Cochin International Airport in
                       increasingly based upon meeting        the Indian state of Kerala became
                       very local sustainability targets.     the first airport in the world to
                       These include local air quality,       be entirely powered by solar
                       surface access, climate change,        energy. 46,000 on-site solar
                       use of natural resources, noise        panels produce 12 megawatts of
                       impact and waste management.           energy, enabling it to power all
                                                              of the airport’s operations from
                       There is also a dual focus by          renewable sources. Initiatives
                       airport operators on reducing their    such as these can give airports
                       energy costs and increasing the        energy independence as well
                       use of renewable sources within        as showcasing sustainability
                       their energy supplies. Terminal        credentials.
                       buildings are by far an airport’s
                       greatest energy consuming
                       assets, with the greatest energy
                       consuming elements within
                       being baggage handling, lights,
                       cooling and IT infrastructure.
                       New-build airports have the
                       upper hand in getting the energy

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Four to the floor                       a virtual air traffic control room
                                        which relies on multiple cameras
There are at least four major           to provide a 360 degree view of
opportunities for improving the         the airport and which can overlay
overall sustainability in the airport   radar information on-screen. The
arena. Within pre-flight transport,     audio visual information is piped
emissions from cars driving to and      to a control room 120 miles away
from the airport can be mitigated       from the airport, where air traffic
by encouraging car sharing,             controllers can zoom in to get a
electric vehicle use, building          much more comprehensive –
an electric vehicle charging            and more detailed – view on
infrastructure, and encouraging         the skies above.
multi-modal public transport.
Within landside and terminal
operations, energy independence
can be improved by installing
major solar panelling arrays.

Airside operations can improve
congestion issues and wasted
fuel on the ground by improving
air traffic control operations
and electrifying the taxiing
process and implementing smart
pavement. While flying, problems
of aircraft noise, extreme
carbon emissions and kerosene
composition can be mitigated by
using more efficient aircraft, more
efficient flight routing, and finding
more sustainable fuel sources.

Eyes on the sky
Longer term, improvements
in aircraft engine technology
– including hybrid electric
propulsion systems being
developed by NASA, and similar
alternatives being developed by
a consortium including Airbus,
Siemens and Rolls-Royce – will
improve carbon emissions, fuel
efficiency and noise levels in
commercial aircraft. Test flights
                                                                                  “When you realize that
are likely to take place from 2020.                                                   aviation, if it were a
                                                                                    country, would be the
Flights will also become much
more efficient with the continued                                                21st largest economy in
evolution of air traffic control,                                                   the world, supporting
which is transitioning to an era
                                                                              62.7 million jobs and nearly
of air traffic management. The
combination of high definition                                                     three trillion dollars in
cameras and improvements in                                                             economic impact,
remote sensing make it possible
to use predictive technologies                                                    you really see the scale
within air traffic management                                                            of air transport.”
that will improve operations and
                                                                                                  Michael Gill
overall safety. Already, some
                                                                                    Executive Director of ATAG
airports – including City Airport
in London – have implemented

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VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA
CASE STUDY

                            Mildura Regional Airport
                            Master Plan
                            Mildura Regional Airport plays a key role in the
                            movement of people and goods to and from the
                            Sunraysia Region, eastern parts of South Australia
                            and south-western NSW.

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The Master Plan designates
                                                                              discrete precincts and a suite of
                                                                              airside and landside projects and
                                                                              initiatives as the basis for future
                                                                              development and operations at
                                                                              Mildura Regional Airport. The
                                                                              projects and initiatives provide
                                                                              a comprehensive infrastructure
                                                                              development program both within
                                                                              and beyond the life of the Master
                                                                              Plan.

                                                                              With 120 people currently working
                                                                              in aviation and non-aviation
                                                                              related business at the airport, the
                                                                              Master Plan will help drive and
                                                                              sustain growth while providing the
                                                                              community with a high-quality
                                                                              transport gateway.

                                                                              20-year
                                                                              MASTER PLAN

                                                                              Sustainable
                                                                              GROWTH AND
                                                                              DEVELOPMENT

                                                                              Airside
                                                                              AND LANDSIDE
                                                                              ASSET PLANS

It is unique for a regional airport     Arcadis was engaged to develop a
in Australia in that it currently has   20-year Master Plan for the airport
220,000 passenger movements             that would provide a sustainable
and services a total of three capital   and long-term planning
cities and four destinations. The       framework, while also reinforcing
airport is also a regional hub for      the airport as a core pillar of the
general aviation activity including     Mildura economy and community.
a diverse range of aviation
businesses, pilot training and          The development of the Master
recreational flying. With increased     Plan involved consultation with
passengers and flights expected         stakeholders including planning
in the coming years, a plan was         and regulatory bodies as well as
needed to guide the growth of the       airport users. Key foundations
airport.                                of the Master Plan are the
                                        aeronautical growth projections
                                        and ongoing safety and security
                                        requirements.

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VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA
CASE STUDY

                            Tyabb Airfield Precinct Plan
                            Tyabb airfield is a privately-owned aviation facility located
                            on the Mornington Peninsula, approximately 84 km
                            south east of Melbourne. Opened in the 1960’s, it is
                            located directly adjacent to the western edge of central
                            Tyabb township.

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Following an intensive community
                                                                               consultation program, as well
                                                                               as an analysis of regulatory
                                                                               and planning requirements,
                                                                               the Tyabb Airfield Precinct
                                                                               Plan was developed to provide
                                                                               a comprehensive plan for the
                                                                               community and airfield to coexist.
                                                                               It included:

                                                                               • The Airfield Area Plan
                                                                               • The Off-Airfield Plan including
                                                                                 recommended Airspace
                                                                                 Protection Areas and Public
                                                                                 Safety Zones
                                                                               • A recommended “road map”
                                                                                 to establish appropriate
                                                                                 planning policies and controls
                                                                                 including the development of
                                                                                 an Airfield Master Plan and
                                                                                 Airfield Noise Management Plan
                                                                                 – incorporating a review of an
                                                                                 existing Fly Neighbourly advice
                                                                               • Proposed establishment of a
                                                                                 Community Reference Group
                                                                               • Advice regarding further
                                                                                 investigation of areas with high
                                                                                 aircraft noise exposure
                                                                               • Implementation Plan

                                                                               The plan outlines a balanced
                                                                               way forward for both the
                                                                               airfield’s operators and the local
                                                                               community to continue to grow,
                                                                               develop and enjoy the high quality
                                                                               of life offered by Tyabb and the
                                                                               Mornington Peninsula.

The airfield and town have grown
significantly over the years, and
                                       and sustainable co-existence
                                       between the airfield and the local      1
a plan was needed to ensure            community.
both could continue to grow and
                                                                               PRECINT PLAN
coexist. This presents a number        Tyabb Airfield is a general aviation
of challenges due to the close         facility, supporting primarily
proximity of the township, the
surrounding topography and
                                       recreational use but caters for
                                       a diverse mix of aviation uses
                                                                               Over 100
uncertainty regarding both future      including a flight school, charters,    COMMUNITY
plans for the airfield and the         engineering services for aircraft,      SUBMISSIONS
regulatory framework.                  the restoration and maintenance
                                       of historic aircraft, and support for
In this context, Arcadis and project   emergency-services. It also hosts
partner Kneebush Planning were         the biennial Tyabb air-show. Tyabb      Actions and
appointed by the Mornington            Airfield has the largest collection     recommendations
Peninsula Shire Council to develop     of ex-military aircraft (“warbirds”)
the Tyabb Airfield Precinct Plan       and historic aircraft in Australia.     PLAN DEVELOPED
to allow for a balanced, fair

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Making it happen
Amid all of the challenges facing airports
today, it’s clear that airport operators will
need to carefully consider how they manage
their existing business, and how they plan
for the future anticipated growth in
passenger numbers.
                        Infrastructure upgrades and
                        expansion programmes will need
                        to be managed as efficiently as
                        possible – and existing assets
                        managed more effectively– while
                        revenue gaps from ‘business as
                        usual’ activities such as retail
                        and landing fees will need to be
                        filled by airports looking afresh at
                        becoming customer champions,
                        and airports of choice.

                        If properly designed and the latest
                        digital infrastructure is leveraged,
                        airports are in a unique position
                        to not only satisfy the world’s
                        growing demand for flying, but
                        also deliver significant economic
                        benefits in the form of tourism,
                        trade and business services.

                        The potential of airports as an
                        asset is significant, but they can
                        also become a hub of innovation
                        and opportunity as well as a
                        gateway to the world.

                        By becoming an airport city – or
                        ‘aerotropolis’ – they can bring
                        far-greater economic and social
                        benefits to a region than if they
                        were to act in isolation. We owe it
                        to our future generations to get
                        the planning and design right.

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Schiphol Airport

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                   Greg Harrison
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                   Business Advisory Leader
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                   Nick Hutchinson
                   Global Leader - Airport Solutions

                          Nick Hutchinson

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