Speaker Biograghy: Mario has more than 45 years of experience in airport planning and design through most of the South American countries and Africa. He has a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Sao Paulo/Politechnical School, an MSc in Transportation and a doctorate in Airport Planning and Design. His post-doctoral studies involved short courses at the University of California, at Berkeley, USA; MIT, Ma, USA; and LUT, Loughborough, England. He has been involved in more than 50 airport projects, including concession processes. He has also been an airport planning and design teacher at the University of Sao Paulo USP, University of Campinas - Unicamp and Catholic University - PUC, at Santos. He is currently President of two consultancy companies: Aeroquip - Equipment and Airport Operations Ltd and Aeroconsult - Airport Planning and Design Ltd.


Day 3 - 12 March
Session: Airport Design, Planning & Development

12:25 - 12:55 - New passenger terminal area of Maringa Regional Airport, Parana, Brazil
Synopsis: The actual terminal area of Maringa Regional Airport is going to handle 1,0 million passenger in 2014. The current terminal is completely saturated and expansion is very limited. Building a new terminal area would allow the construction of a multimodal rail and bus terminal in front of the new airport passenger terminal. Between the two terminals would be built a regional outlet and a new parking lot to serve the three facilities. Around the airport a 7.2km² area would receive an aeronautic pole and an industrial park.

Audience will learn:

• Planning of an airport facility maximising the commercial possibilities and access modes
• Urbanising the area surrounding the airport property for the implementation of an industrial park
• Commercialisation of the urbanised area to third parties interested in the development of an industrial park
• Integration of the airport activities with the industrial park, outlet, the actual terminal area and the multimodal terminal
• Socialisation of the entire multimodal transportation network, allowing people living in the suburbs to have easier transportation access