What does the airport mean?

Airports are facilities for air traffic and aircraft take-off and landing.

As the base of commercial transportation, the airport can be divided into three parts: flight area, ground transportation area and terminal area. The flight area is the area where aircraft move; The ground traffic area is the area where vehicles and passengers move; The terminal area is the area where passengers register, and it is the junction of the flight area and the ground traffic area.

1, flight area

Flight is divided into air part and ground part. The air part refers to the airspace of the airport; Including approach and departure routes; The ground part includes runway, taxiway, apron, boarding gate, and some maintenance and air traffic control facilities and venues such as hangar, tower and rescue center.

2. Connecting plate

The terminal area includes the terminal itself, the boarding apron and the passenger passage outside the terminal. It is the intersection of ground traffic and air traffic, and the central area of the airport serving passengers.

3. Ground transportation area

The airport is one of the transportation centers of the city and has strict time requirements, so the passage from the city to the airport is an important part of urban planning. In order to ensure the smooth traffic at the airport, big cities have built special expressway from downtown to the airport, and even opened subway and light rail transportation to facilitate passengers' travel.

When considering air transportation, the route from the airport to the railway station and port should be taken into account at the same time. In addition, the airport must also have a large parking lot and corresponding internal passages.

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Airport facilities and functions:

1, airport air traffic management facilities, core facilities. The tower is one of the most intuitive facilities and the command center of the airport. The tower is mainly used for air traffic control, as well as other air traffic control facilities such as communication, navigation and surveillance, navigation information and aviation meteorology.

Air traffic control, commonly known as air traffic police, provides traffic control services for the take-off and landing and cruising of aircraft; Communication, navigation and monitoring facilities are concrete tools for air traffic police, which facilitate the aircraft to obtain its own position, and the ground controller can "see" the specific position of the aircraft to avoid collision, while communication facilities are ground and air communication methods.

Navigation information provides aircraft with specific information about airports and routes (such as whether the runway at the destination airport is under maintenance and whether the weather is suitable for landing); The aviation weather station provides the weather conditions of the airport.

2, emergency fire rescue facilities, including emergency command center, rescue and medical center, fire station, fire water supply system and other facilities.

3 airport security facilities, including passenger, cargo, postal and staff security facilities. Now we know that our security check place is the security check facility.

4. Airport security facilities, including flight area security facilities, terminal security facilities, freight area security facilities, monitoring and reporting systems. There are many safety facilities at the airport. What we see is the passenger security inspection, but what we can't see is the encirclement and suppression brigade, the aviation security inspection detachment, the aircraft watchman and so on. To protect the safety of the airport.

5. Oil supply facilities, including oil unloading station, transit oil depot, airport oil depot, aviation gas station, apron pipeline refueling system and ground automobile gas station. Gas stations and transit oil depots are generally located outside the airport boundary.

6 power and communication systems, including power supply, water supply, gas supply, heating, refrigeration and communication facilities.

7. Freight area includes freight warehouse shore, freight distribution center, office facilities and freight apron.

8. Airport environmental protection facilities. Including flood control and rainwater drainage system, sewage treatment and drainage system, sewage treatment facilities, noise measurement and prevention facilities, bird and mouse prevention facilities, greening facilities, etc.

9, the base airline area, the airport where the airline (or branch) base is located, should be equipped with apron, hangar, maintenance workshop and air material warehouse.

10 belongs to airport maintenance facilities and ground service facilities.

1 1. Passenger service facilities, such as aviation food companies, hotels, rest places, shops and catering, entertainment, sightseeing, meetings and other facilities. This facility enables us to get in touch with the most places, and it is also the area of our greatest interest.

12, resident unit area, including multi-functional joint inspection units (customs, border inspection, commodity inspection, health and animal and plant quarantine, etc. ), public security, banks, post offices, insurance, travel agencies and other departments.

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