San Francisco International Airport

Lea+Elliott provided multi-project services to determine the feasibility of installing an APM system in San Francisco International Airport and to provide procurement and implementation services. The initial phase included 2.8 miles of dual-lane guideway and nine stations. Preparatory work involved ridership analysis, alternative route investigations, alignment, and station location studies for a facility that wass planned for over 51 million passengers annually. The evaluations involved the use of LEGENDS^©, Lea+Elliott's proprietary simulation software. LEGENDS^© helped provide a technology assessment, power distribution analysis, and preliminary design criteria for stations, the guideway and other fixed facilities.

Upon completion of the feasibility phase, Lea+Elliott was chosen to provide professional services to assist in the procurement of AirTrain. The scope of this phase included development of final ridership estimates and technical operating parameters, refinements of fixed facilities design criteria, preliminary power distribution subsystem design, development of procurement documents for the design-build operating system contract, review of supplier proposals, and systems/fixed facilities interface coordination. Implementation phase services included supplier design review, contract compliance monitoring, on-site installation management, testing, inspections, and quality assurance oversight. In addition, the firm provides complete coordination between the operating system and fixed facilities designs.

AirTrain opened for service in 2003 year and is successfully serving SFIA’s passenger conveyance needs. Bombardier introduced a new moving block advanced train control system on this CX-100 technology.

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