Salt Lake City International Airport Terminal Redevelopment ...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
eliminate the need for new passenger handling facilities, the use of other airports, or the use
of other modes of transportation that may reduce the need for improvements at the Airport.
Terminal Development Alternatives
As the transfer point between surface and air transportation, passenger terminals must be
easily accessible from the surface transportation systems and the airfield circulation system.
At a major airport, such as SLC, the area required for passenger handling facilities, automobile
access and parking, and airfield circulation is extensive. The existing terminal
complex at SLC is well located in all of these respects. Although other sites on or adjacent to
the Airport might be considered for a replacement terminal complex, no other site offers
similar benefits. Exhibit ES-3 shows the constraints of six potential terminal locations
(labeled A through F) at SLC. These constraints and limitations include:
The size of the area needed to accommodate the necessary facilities and the necessary
separation from existing runways
The need to avoid area required for airfield circulation
Proximity to access roadways
Surrounding development, infrastructure, and environmental factors
Area A, the existing terminal area, is the best located with respect to airfield circulation and
the regional surface transportation system. Continued use of this area would minimize
impacts to the natural and manmade environments compared to developing a new site by
avoiding the need to develop undeveloped areas, or to acquire and relocate off-Airport
development. For these reasons, alternatives that would relocate the terminal complex from
Area A would not be prudent; terminal planning has, therefore, focused on the existing
project area shown in Exhibit ES-1. Exhibit ES-4 shows terminal concepts developed for SLC
in master planning studies dating back to 1975.
Potential Terminal Configurations
During the last 35 years, the SLCDA has examined dozens of concepts for providing
terminal facilities. As noted above, these concepts have focused on the existing terminal area
as the most logical location for a passenger terminal complex (see Exhibit ES-4). These
concepts have generally approached terminal development in one of three ways:
Multiple terminals
Single terminal
Hybrid
Single-terminal concepts (1997 Concept H and 2010 Proposed Action) would minimize the
need for duplicate facilities and would provide maximum flexibility in responding to
changes in air transportation service patterns. Single-terminal concepts would also
minimize congestion and delay in the terminal area by eliminating dead-end taxilanes and
chokepoints between concourses. The multiple-terminal and hybrid concepts do not meet
the purpose and need for the Proposed Action and are not retained for detailed
consideration.
ES-6
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