WESTERN SYDNEY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT LINKING WESTERN SYDNEY TO OPPORTUNITY A vision by DFNP Consultants Executive Summary Contents The federal government’s green light for maximum 30 minutes by vehicle. efficiently than the traditional multiple airline Badgerys Creek to be the location for Sydney’s ‘runway in the rough’ model. This reduces the combined operating new airport opens a flood gate of opportunity The current Transport for NSW strategies for rail costs of all parties. Savings realised by airlines for greater Western Sydney. This report outlines A minimal impact approach is adopted for the access to the Western Sydney growth centres will then be claimed by the airport as a revenue a community centred approach to airport airport layout and construction with the aim of will be extended and augmented. The Fast stream through a usage charge, without the net design encouraging distributed regional growth creating a ‘runway in the rough’ feeling. The Transport System will include a Fast Rail cost to the airline changing. around a mass transport hub. reduced terminal footprint achievable with the Service between the Western Sydney airport 01 02Part 2 - The Concept Part 1 - The Vision Lean Airport Model is complemented by and Kingsford-Smith airport, then through to It is proposed that despite the loss of retail 02 A Story about the future of 06 Terminal Design adherence to sustainable design principles the CBD. The transfer time between airports will revenue, the reduction in capex and opex Western Sydney 07 Passenger Experience throughout. initially be 20 minutes reducing to 15 minutes associated with the Lean Airport Model, an airport for the people of Western Sydney 02 The Community 09 Airport Layout when demand allows a dedicated service, combined with progressive airport revenue 03 The Airport Precinct 10 Local area Layout & Zoning The report recognises that the success of the offering transit times currently only observed structures will deliver a return on investment 04 The Region 12 Integration with Western Western Sydney Airport - and its ability to distributed Aerotropolis between co-located terminals. equivalent to traditional airport commercial Sydney become an equal of Kingsford-Smith - will be models . 13 Interlinking Western linked to the growth of the Western Sydney The proposed layout and zoning references a To minimise local congestion and pollution, Sydney region. The report proposes a long term recent urban design a strategy of placing vehicle travel to the airport will be discouraged One approach examined for additional revenue 16 Airport Services planning approach that integrates the needs of airports at population centres with the intent of by tolling the airport access road and high streams is the creation of an entity tasked with the airport, the Western Sydney community and connecting workers, suppliers, executives, and prices for parking. facilitating strategic alliances between the Western Sydney economy to promote goods to the global marketplace. We have community groups, the government, the airport, mutually supportive growth. expanded this concept by defining the airport financiers and other private enterprise that as a regional transit hub, central to a number of facilitating commercial success present the opportunity to promote growth and Our design presents a concept focused on the population centres, encouraging decentralised produce revenue for the airport and in the user experience, the needs of the community growth in line with State strategy. This approach population centres. and the growth of the region. Better transport, is referred in our report to as a Distributed The Lean Airport Model reduces traditional Aerotropolis. more amenities, more parklands, more airport capital expenditure and operating costs. Project Team Mentor opportunity. When coupled with the Fast Transport System it Nick Owen Andrew Pettifer A Distributed Aerotropolis design allows the assists the integration of the airport with the sustainability through community [email protected] [email protected] area around the airport to be zoned in a more Western Sydney Region, allowing passengers to balanced manner, providing for the immediate David Dennis lean design access amenity within the population centres An airport for the people must have that commercial and industrial needs of the airport [email protected] Futurenet before travel, after travel or during transit. people’s input. A thorough revision of the EIS is Prudence Hickey The terminal design presented follows a Lean whilst creating a more extensive rural and proposed to complement and inform our design parkland zoning to maintain the area’s natural [email protected] 2014 Airport Model to reduce airport capital and The reduction in dwell time encourages concept. The new EIS will include a fresh Flavio Rossi operating costs while providing an exceptional feel and allow for potential future expansion. passengers to spend more time in the beginning on the community engagement work [email protected] user experience. The user experience is Population Centres reducing the revenue and focused on defining what the community needs optimised by offering streamlined check-in and time spent available to the airport through the and early identification of potential for security, minimising dwell time. In the long transport hub traditional airport commercial models, which alliances. 03 term, passenger processing will be carried out rely on retail for up to 28% of their revenue. Part 3 - The Approach Linking the airport to the Western Sydney off site. 18 Staged Implementation Population Centres is a key element to the In our proposed Lean Airport Model, land side 20 Delivery Model The user experience is enhanced by the Distributed Aerotropolis model. The airport will passenger processing and most air side form a central transport hub for an 22 Facilitated Alliances availability of a detached ‘snail zone’. A separate processes, will be common use and run by the 23 Stakeholder Engagement slow area available to all passengers, but interconnected Fast Transport System with airport. This will eliminate the traditional fixed 26 EIS Update designed to provide transit passengers with a design criteria of 10-15 minutes to each of the land based costs for airlines, leaving minimal 27 Sustainable Approach relaxing café, bar, dining experience with some six Western Sydney Population Centres. New variable costs. The airport will be able to light retail. freeways will be introduced to achieve a manage the land based airport processes more Introduction Part 1. The Vision The Federal Government’s recent announcement that Badgerys Creek will be the location for Sydney’s new airport has created considerable debate. Consult Australia’s Futurenet Business Leaders Course has chosen this topic for its annual course project. The following report offers a design concept for this new regular public transport airport. The concept was developed in response to a hypothetical request from the Western Sydney Airport Alliance (WSAA) to a consulting and project management group DFNP Consultants. DFNP is a team of professional consultants formed exclusively to respond to this brief as part of the Futurenet course. Our approach to designing Western Sydney airport was to closely follow the WSAA brief with a focus on the needs of Badgerys Creek residents and those of the broader Western Sydney community. Our intent is to offer a holistic airport design concept that is immediately commercially viable and whose long term success is interrelated with the growth of the Western Sydney region. Western Sydney has been identified as the largest NSW growth centre. Forecasts suggest the Greater Western Sydney population will outnumber the rest of Sydney by 2026. Development of an airport at the Badgerys Creek ‘Western Sydney International location will complement and encourage growth in the region by providing jobs to local residents - both directly and through related business around the airport - and by bringing people to the area. Symbiotically, growth of the Airport, linking Western Sydney to Western Sydney region will support the success of the airport. opportunity.’ The DFNP Concept is a practical framework for the creation of Facilitated Alliances, within which a focus on the needs of the community will promote both the success of the airport and sustainable growth in the region. iv Introduction 011 01 The Vision 01 The Vision The Community The Airport Precinct considered at all stages of project _ Minimised taxi and aircraft dwell efficient Western Sydney Transport existing population centres in A Story about the future of Western development. time Network linking to all Population Improving quality of life Minimalist approach Environmentally Sustainable Design Ease of access Western Sydney to each other and to Sydney _ Air filtering vegetation retained or Centres and the to CBD principles the airport, and provides a fast planted in the airport and it’s In contrast to ‘standard of living’ DFNP have adopted a Lean Airport The most obvious factor to success transit link to the CBD. The DFNP Concept is founded on the which is generally defined in terms of Model. The DFNP Concept provides From not so far away the airport will of the Western Sydney Airport is how Addressing Community Concern surrounds belief that a new airport at the income, ‘quality of life’ is a measure an optimal user experience by look like undeveloped park land or a many people use it. All else being _ Discouraged vehicle traffic by Connecting the past and the future The DFNP Concept for transport will: Badgerys Creek location should be The consultation process carried out providing an efficient Western of general well being. Apart from minimising airport dwell time. rural area. One low profile terminal equal the level of take up will be _ Make it feasible for weekday an airport for the people of Western as part of the 1997 Environmental Sydney Transport Network DFNP believe that a story about the financial stability, quality of life Passengers will arrive under the building will stand in the middle of dependant on access.