b'48 ATL PASSENGER TRANSPORT New elevator banksATLNext development program staff anticipates that the civil were installed tocomponentsmainly the tunnel extension and associated serve the systemterminal items such as new escalator and elevatorswill be extension.complete by May 2024. After that, specialists will install the train controls, and the cars will begin to arrive. Then, well be able to actually use the tunnel, says Pino. Projected CapabilitiesWith the 600-foot tail track augmentation well underway, Pino says Plane Train riders will begin to realize the benefits in spring 2025, when ATLs new underground rail service is slated to debut. Six hundred feet doesnt seem like a lot of footage, but it will be enough to significantly reduce train headway and allow us to add more trains in the circuit, he notes. In 2022 alone, more than 93 million passengers flew into, out of or through ATL, and many rode the Plane Train to connect among its seven concourses that are flanked by the domestic and international terminals. Currently, the system has 11 trains, each containing four Alstom Group cars. The extension currently in the works will enable ATL to reduce train headway from 108 seconds to 90a nearly 20% increase in capacity.Should the Plane Train Tunnel West Extension project continue to stay on track as expected, ATLNext will deliver a marked enhancement in passenger connectivityand reap the anticipated benefits of using a new project delivery method. We have had construction managers at Boost Revenue, Efficiency,risk here for a long time, so the construction manager at risk with design responsibilities Traveler Experience kind of adds another phase to it, Pino says of the progressive design-build contract. It at the same time seems to work fine.Travelers park up to 63%Chris Rogers, senior vice president of Aviation and ATLNext program manager with faster, elevating theirWSP USA, notes that it has been challenging experience and boostingto execute a project at the busiest airport on-site revenue.in the world due to the number of ongoing operations and passengers.Efficiency soars, stressThis program couldnt have been done plummets.without a complete team effort, which was a true partnership with city of Atlanta Upgrade your airportsDepartment of Aviation, Rogers says. This parking game today withprogressive design-build required timely an Automated Parkingdecision-making and precise planning; and the fact that we were able to execute aGuidance System (APGS). project of this complexity to increase passenger flow efficiencies while enhancing the overall experience at ATL is what Im parkassist.com most proud of. January | February 2024AirportImprovement.com'