Daniel K. Barton is a principal consultant with expertise in airport master planning, strategic development, feasibility studies, curbside and roadway planning, parking strategies and technologies, rental car facility planning and design, and traffic simulation modeling. He has over 35 years of experience working on projects at over 35 airports worldwide, including airports in Athens, Brazil, Calgary, Dallas/Fort Worth, Denver, Detroit, Des Moines, Fort Lauderdale, Guayaquil, Harrisburg, Houston, Larnaca, Little Rock, Newark, Ottawa, Panama City, Phoenix, Portland, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, and more. His areas of specialization include airport master planning, ground transportation, parking, rental car facilities

1. DANIEL K. BARTON
Principal Consultant
CORE STRENGTHS SELECTED CLIENT EXPERIENCE
• Airport Master planning
• Strategic development
planning and feasibility
studies
• Airport curbsides and
roadways planning
• Intermodal connections
• Parking lot concepts
and layouts
• Parking strategies and
technologies
• Rental car facility
planning and design
• Traffic engineering
• Vehicular traffic
simulation and
modeling
• Airport Cooperative
Research Program
• Athens, Greece
• Brazil Privatization
• Calgary, Canada
• Dallas/Fort Worth
• Denver
• Detroit
• Des Moines
• Fort Lauderdale
• Guayaquil, Ecuador
• Harrisburg
• Houston
(Intercontinental)
• Larnaca, Cyprus
• Little Rock
• Newark
• Ottawa, Canada
• Panama City, Panama
• Phoenix
• Portland
• Sacramento
• Salt Lake City
• San Francisco
SELECTED EXPERIENCE
Mr. Barton has experience in master planning, strategic development planning, and feasibility studies, in addition to
specializing in Airport curbside and roadway planning; parking strategies, technologies, layouts, designs, and demand
analysis; rental car site analysis and layout; and traffic simulation modeling. He has worked at more than 35 airports
throughout the world.
Mr. Barton is currently serving as the lead planner for the master plan update at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. He served
on the management teams for the Strategic Development Plan Feasibility Study for Tocumen International Airport in
Panama City, Panama; the Master Plan for Harrisburg International Airport; and the Master Plan for Jose Joaquin de
Olmedo International Airport in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Mr. Barton has overseen the development of facility inventory,
aviation activity projections, facility requirements, , alternative development concepts, preferred development plans, cargo
development plans, commercial development plans, financial models and financial analyses, and preliminary environmental
assessments. Mr. Barton has coordinated on construction cost estimates, property valuation analyses, environmental
analyses, document translation, and electronic Airport Layout Plans. Mr. Barton’s is conversationally fluent in Spanish.
Mr. Barton has experience working with private airport operators. The aforementioned airports at Tocumen (Panama) and
Guayaquil (Ecuador) are privately operated. The aforementioned airport at Harrisburg (Pennsylvania) is run by an
independent airport authority. As part of privatization efforts in Brazil, Mr. Barton served as a technical lead for the master
plans and corresponding financial due diligence for five airports (São Paulo/Guarulhos, Rio de Janeiro/Galeão, Viracopos-
Campinas, Belo Horizonte Tancredo Neves - Confins, and Brasília). Mr. Barton also managed a VISSIM traffic simulation
project for the privately owned and operated Athens International Airport in Greece and the privately managed Houston
Intercontinental Airport.
Mr. Barton has provided consulting services on a variety of ground transportation projects at more than 20 airports. As
part of these projects, Mr. Barton has forecast demand using AVI and parking data, developed facility concepts, produced
schematic plans for new parking structures, and created construction phasing of short- and long-term public parking
facilities. He has produced comprehensive landside construction phasing plans, future terminal roadway layouts, curbside
designs, and light-rail airport alignments. Mr. Barton has vehicle traffic simulation skills and has created VISSIM models of
the roadways serving airports at Salt Lake City, Houston, Larnaca, Memphis, and Athens. Additionally, he has conducted
studies regarding parking requirements at on-airport hotels and participated in the identification of potential hotel sites.
For Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Project 07-02, Airport Curbside and Terminal-Area Roadway
Operations, Mr. Barton used a macroscopic simulation method for curbside roadways and a low-speed weaving analysis
tool, in preparing a guide for the planning and operation of terminal-area roadways and curbsides. These projects have
come both as part of master plans and also as stand-alone projects.

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Principal Consultant (continued)
SELECTED EXPERIENCE (continued)
Mr. Barton also serves as the technical lead for rental car facility planning, having recently completed rental car-specific
projects at Fort Lauderdale – Hollywood, George Bush Intercontinental (Houston), Dallas/Fort Worth, Denver, Newark
Liberty, Pheonix Sky Harbor, Portland, Salt Lake City, and San Francisco international airports. For these projects, Mr.
Barton has led surveying efforts, rental car facility assessments, the development of future program requirements, the
development of alternatives to meet these requirements, and the refinement of preferred development plans. The final
result of these studies has been a master plan for on-Airport rental car facilities and/or complexes. For projects at
Dallas/Fort Worth, Denver, Phoenix Sky Harbor, and Salt Lake City, Mr. Barton has provided facility planning expertise as
part of negotiations for new business deals. At Portland, Mr. Barton provided assistance in developing the design of a new
quick-turnaround (QTA) facility.
PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS (partial list)
• Airport Planning Trends In Latin America, American Society
of Civil Engineers, T&DI Congress 2014, June 2014,
Orlando, Florida.
EDUCATION
B.S., Civil Engineering, Brigham Young University.
M.S., Transportation Engineering, University of California at Berkeley.