摘要: |
Airports take a wide range of approaches to designing and building baggage handling systems (BHS). Most systems are designed and built with a focus on minimizing capital costs without much consideration given to the future costs of performance, operations, and maintenance. ACRP Research Report 172: Guidebook for Considering Life-Cycle Costs in Airport Asset Procurement provides broad total cost of ownership guidance for airport infrastructure projects; however, it does provide specific guidance for BHS. In addition, airports lack guidance for benchmarking and tracking BHS total cost of ownership, and incorporating it into financial models.
Research is needed to develop a guidebook for airport stakeholders for incorporating total cost of ownership for BHS, including related infrastructure and resources.
The objective of this research is to develop a guidebook for incorporating total cost of ownership into BHS decision-making, including related infrastructure and resources.
The guidebook should help users: Incorporate BHS into benefit-cost analyses and financial models; Identify and evaluate potential project delivery methods;
Define fixed and variable costs for capital expenditure and ongoing operating costs;
Identify intangible costs that should be considered for BHS (e.g., customer experience, worker productivity, risk management); and Evaluate operation and maintenance business models (i.e., third-party, airline, and airport). |