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AIRPORT LAND USES
The Terms of Reference for this Consultancy required development, in broad terms, of an airport land-use plan. Its purpose is to locate, size, and specify the character and extent of development of airport facilities and interfacility transport systems to the extent necessary to confirm the feasibility of the pilot scheme. A Master Plan is required to optimize the concept. The considerations of civil engineering, airfield, and airspace utilization generally took precedence in defining a pilot airport configuration. The work on facilities was concerned primarily with defining the major requirements, identifying potential problems in providing for these facilities, and indicating required policy decisions. The planning for a transport system had the goal of defining multiple access modes to avoid dependence on a single mode or route and to provide expandability and flexibility in developing system alternatives.
As with the other major tasks, a Technical Advisory Group was convened to work with the Consultants on the subject of facilities and transport. The group consisted of experts from the CAD who understood the local requirements unique to the Hong Kong operation. This advisory group and the Consultants reached a consensus of opinion that will be of major importance in developing the replacement airport. The character of the future air transport system will be dramatically different from the system we know today. The report on facilities and transport and the Consultants' Final Report present schematic plans for passenger terminals. These should be considered as solutions that are workable in current terms and sufficient to meet the cost-definition objective. The Consultants and the advisory group concur in the need for a careful and thorough Master Planning effort that will emphasize the changing nature of the air travel system with respect to terminal system design.
Facility locations and transport systems shown in Figure 18 were devised to reflect the phased construction pro- gramme envisioned for the pilot scheme. Virtually all of the initial facilities and considerable expansion space are provided south of the Phase I runway. The juxtaposition of passenger and air cargo facilities and other airport facilities is subject to review and possible relocation. The
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