What ratio are you using between a Large Stand and Large Security stations?
Looks like London Stansted on a good day
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I know! It’s insane. I’m using one medium security to one medium gate, and find that it works just fine for most planes. Then for extra capacity, I have one extra medium security checkpoint for every four medium gates. So basically, five medium checkpoints to four medium gates. With appropriately-placed staff rooms, I’m getting no queues whatsoever.
But once the large gates were built… oh dear. I would have thought two large security checkpoints for every large gate would be adequate, but sadly not. Flights are still delayed, and passengers are still stuck in the security queues. I do think this requires a bit of tuning tbh–if you think of most airports, other than those with security at individual gates, most do not run on one checkpoint per gate. Heathrow certainly doesn’t (but yes, it does did have horrible queues), Amsterdam doesn’t, and I really don’t know which one does. And for those airports that do have individual gate security, e.g. Singapore, they certainly manage with one checkpoint per gate on average (some are two checkpoints for two gates, that can be flexibly used).
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Thank you, I push 7 large stands through this atm and 20 mediums, with peaks of 10k people on airport. The red marked staff rooms are security staff rooms. I am considering extending more, but I am not sure.
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I’ve ended up zoning staff rooms for security below the security checkpoints (either ground floor or basement depending on layout). These are reached by staff-only lifts (elevators) from inside the secure area, and just next to the security checkpoints (the security staff and ramp agent staff rooms are all inside the secure area). Then the baggage scanners are just off to the side of these staff rooms. This layout seems to help minimise the need for security officers to walk around too much (unmanned checkpoints), and also the need for ramp agents to continually pass in and out of secure zones.
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Thx, at the moment I have no baggage room at all, so I will have to think about that when I set it up.
An interesting layout you could try, is perhaps if you put align security checkpoint sideways, like how one would organize check-in area.
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I do not exactly get your point.
Agree it works very well! Effectively imagine a terminal with multiple parallel boarding piers. Also known as a toaster rack layout, apply that logic to your security search points. It works well for security will get screenshot of a one I made soon!
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This is an example, I can fit 15 checkpoint in just that space.
This is the one I also normally use, 7 large and 2 medium, serving 12 medium stands just fine.
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Ah, such sandwiching is something to consider in the future.
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Perhaps it’s due to the pathfinding, but concentrating the checkpoints helps with
- Saving space, allowing a bit more freedom to build on the space up and above (which also means one can put a staff room closer to the security checkpoint area).
- Pax don’t have to move too far when the checkpoint “shuts down” due to shift change.
- I haven’t confirmed it, but I think it also helps evens out pax distribution.
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Great example! Even 3 checkpoints per row can increase capacity within same floor space as a single row layout. Also staff have less to walk for shift change 
May i just ask how did you manage to put baggage claim in the secure area, as mine doesn’t allow it, it only allows in non secure area Thanks
You should just be able to place it in a secure area, there isn’t any trick to it. The only restriction is that a baggage claim cannot be placed across different zones.
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Also, rooms cannot cross the draggable plants, since the act as walls.
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