The scope of this committee covers the design, maintenance and operation of the airport landside. The airport landside is defined as the area bounded by the points at which passengers and goods enter the airport by all modes and the point on the apron at which the aircraft is serviced and loaded. The airport landside includes access roads and ramps, parking facilities, the terminal curbside, terminal facilities, and the aircraft apron, including the adjacent taxiway.

Our main goals are to promote informed discussion; engage in the advancement of knowledge; foster longer term perspectives on issues of importance to future planning of airport landside facilities and systems and to focus the attention on immediate problems of national consequence.