John F Kennedy International Airport Airside
Airport Landside
Terminals
JFK Airport comprises six operative terminals which are numbered 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, and 8. They are allocated within the outer part of the loop. The vehicle manages to gain access and parking on the inner part. It’s worth noting that Terminal 3 and 6, got demolished in 2011 and 2013 to give room for the expansion of Terminal 5(Gosling, & Freeman, 2012). As noted in the diagram below the inside of the loop is a pre-security area where all the passengers can gain access. At the same time, the post-security section represents the area where passengers with a valid ticket are permitted. AirTrain tracks define the loop or how one can get from one terminal to another, operating landside.
Ground access
AirTrain is one of the easiest ways to travel to and out of JFK airport and within terminals. This means that passengers can make use of the AirTrain to link the parking lot, the hotel shuttles section, area for rental cars as well as the New York public transportation services which are situated at the Jamaica and Howard Beach Stations (Gosling, & Freeman, 2012). The AirTrain makes numerous stops with the Airport, but does not make a stop in terminal 4. The way the train stations are designed enables accessibility for the passengers who even have special needs or with issues linked to reduced mobility.
Airport configuration
The first Master Plan of 1946 was conceived by the airlines as a 12 runway lateral pattern with a capacity of 360 peak hour movements. However, after extensive research of the meteorological history, features of current and future aircraft of ever attaining 100% efficiency a conclusion by the Port Authority on the necessary runway arrangements required only two runway directions with an approximate right angle (Jacquillat, Odoni, & Webster, 2017). Thus, FK Airport is of today characterized by its right angle-bidirectional runway formations. That is it operates with the use of two sets of parallel runways that are centrally situated. Most runway exits comprise of a high-speed formation or in other words, the angle that the exit way has with the runway small, and this allows aircraft to land as well as exit the runway with high speeds allowing increased speedy availability of the runway to be used by the next aircraft.
Automobile parking
The terminals, together with the parking lots at JFK, are grouped into five categories, and each of the section is marked with different colors. For the passengers’ convenience, the parking spaces that are close to the entrances of terminals contains only a limited number of spaces for the travellers who have disabilities. In order to park in these spaces an official license plate is required or obtained from the municipality or state of residence and which is expected to be prominently displayed. Moreover, the parking fees these vehicles are equivalent to the lowest rate accessible at the Airport.
References
Jacquillat, A., Odoni, A. R., & Webster, M. D. (2017). Dynamic control of runway configurations and arrival and departure service rates at JFK airport under stochastic queue conditions. Transportation Science, 51(1), 155-176.
Gosling, G. D., & Freeman, D. (2012). Case Study Report: John F. Kennedy International Airport, AirTrain. Mineta Transportation Institute Working Paper: Research Project 2503. San Jose, CA: San Jose State University. Available at: http://transweb. sjsu. edu/PDFs/research/2503/2503_cases/2503-cs2-JFK-AirTrain. pdf (accessed 7 December 2017).