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Companion Guide
CBP Airport Technical Design Standard

Key Findings

This guide provides recommendations based on key findings that were collected through airport questionnaires, site surveys, industry documents, and working groups. 

Facility Enhancements for Key FIS Processes

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Insufficient kiosks Confusing messages for passengers Problem: limited capacity for growth Flexibility for precleared widebody flights High Connection Time

Overall Findings from the ATDS

There are also six additional findings with general processing principles that can be applied to all areas
6. Improve egress from CBP
7. Global Entry/Connections
8. Rescreening elimination
9. Flexible FIS space
10. Growth triggers
11. Reduce baseline requirements

Smaller FIS Facilities

A 12th finding involves the flexibility needed for smaller FIS facilities, particularly those that can leverage existing resources for corporate aviation facilities.  Click here for more information. Building a “Right-of-Way” for Future Facilities Note that the findings are not recommendations for implementation. Some findings can be immediately acted upon, but most will require a business case tailored to the individual facility. The findings for facility design are meant to help airport planners think ahead to the evolution of facilities. As a result, the illustrations are analogous to a “right-of-way” in highway planning – creating the space or facilities to allow easy implementation of future pathways, or options for international arrivals or preclearance processing.
© National Safe Skies Alliance Authored by InterVISTAS Consulting
Companion Guide
CBP Airport Technical Design Standard

Key Findings

This guide provides recommendations based on key findings collected through the airport questionnaires, site surveys, industry documents and working groups.  The top five findings, which target the process for passengers as some of the most important areas to ensure quality design is advanced, are listed below: 1. Expand processing areas outside of FIS 2. Coordinate passenger wayfinding for arrivals 3. Adopt convertible processing kiosks 4. Adapt common baggage area for domestic/international use 5. Eliminate baggage recheck areas Our study also has six more findings associated with the general process principles above that can be applied to all areas: 6. Improve egress from CBP 7. Create dedicated egress for Global Entry/connecting passengers 8. Eliminate TSA re-screening for connections 9. Create flexible FIS space 10. Use phased FIS capacity approach with growth triggers 11. Reduce baseline space requirements 12. Customize small airport facilities Note that the findings are not recommendations for implementation. Some findings can be immediately acted upon, but most will require a business case tailored to the individual facility. The findings for facility design are meant to help airport planners think ahead to the evolution of facilities. As a result, the illustrations are analogous to a “right-of-way” in highway planning – creating the space or facilities to allow easy implementation of future pathways or options for international arrivals or preclearance processing.