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
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Descriptions of Dan Poremba's select projects, including airport commercial development, public-private partnership projects (P3), transit-oriented developments (TOD), large mixed-use projects and major asset management portfolios.
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Airport Consulting
Project Briefings
AVS 4999 – Aviation Systems Safety
Airport Consulting & Airport Management
Why is this applicable for you?
Lifestyle
Highly Qualified
Excellent Backup Plan!
Ensures you are well rounded in your profession
A better fit for your strengths
My story at FIT
I didn’t even know this was an option starting out!
This makes you a more well rounded professional, regardless of the aviation discipline you enter for your career path!
This industry NEEDS your specialized knowledge!!
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Airport Consulting
Advising airports on strategic, aeronautical, and commercial issues.
A focus on highly technical design focusing on terminal development, and airfield development.
Exists to assist airport management by supplementing existing staff with high-level technical experience.
This enables management staff to stay lean, and consulting firms to become highly skilled at specific tasks by practicing at many different airports.
What is it?
Airport Consulting
The core product of a consultancy is their employees' knowledge and experience.
As a consultant you are paid for your technical knowledge.
You are expected to multitask and work on many projects within the same time frame juggling multiple deadlines
Therefore you charge your time to each project hourly. (Like a lawyer)
Life of a Consultant
Airport Consulting
Typically an office environment.
Work from home and flexible schedule options available.
You are on demand to meet client needs, which sometimes requires work outside of the typical 9-5 schedule.
Flexibility depends on office culture and employee achievement.
Life of a Consultant
15-20 Years
130K – 160K
10-15 Years
100K – 130K
5-10 Years
70K-100K
0-5 Years
55k – 70K
Airport Consulting
Career Path & Pay Escalation
* Pay estimates based on Central Florida 2020 Rates, escalation / reduction required for locale
Consulting
Aviation Planner II/III
Project Manager
Senior Aviation Planner
Aviation Planner I
Project Director
Senior Technical Director
Typical Airport Consultant Project
Forecast Future Demand
What facilities will create the capacity the airport will need to add to meet the forecasted demand
Decide where these facilities should go, and when they should be constructed.
Devise a plan for the airport to finance these projects.
Airport Master Plan
Lakeland Linder International Airport
LAL is located on an approximate 1,710-acre property in Polk County.
The Airport is located approximately five miles southwest of the City of Lakeland and 27 miles east of Tampa International Airport (TPA)
Forecasting
Forecasting
Annual Service Volume
An airport’s ASV is the maximum number of annual operations that can occur at an airport before an assumed reasonable operational delay value is encountered.
ASV is calculated based on factors.
Airport Consulting
Project Briefings
AVS 4999 – Aviation Systems Safety
Airport Consulting & Airport Management
Why is this applicable for you?
Lifestyle
Highly Qualified
Excellent Backup Plan!
Ensures you are well rounded in your profession
A better fit for your strengths
My story at FIT
I didn’t even know this was an option starting out!
This makes you a more well rounded professional, regardless of the aviation discipline you enter for your career path!
This industry NEEDS your specialized knowledge!!
2
Airport Consulting
Advising airports on strategic, aeronautical, and commercial issues.
A focus on highly technical design focusing on terminal development, and airfield development.
Exists to assist airport management by supplementing existing staff with high-level technical experience.
This enables management staff to stay lean, and consulting firms to become highly skilled at specific tasks by practicing at many different airports.
What is it?
Airport Consulting
The core product of a consultancy is their employees' knowledge and experience.
As a consultant you are paid for your technical knowledge.
You are expected to multitask and work on many projects within the same time frame juggling multiple deadlines
Therefore you charge your time to each project hourly. (Like a lawyer)
Life of a Consultant
Airport Consulting
Typically an office environment.
Work from home and flexible schedule options available.
You are on demand to meet client needs, which sometimes requires work outside of the typical 9-5 schedule.
Flexibility depends on office culture and employee achievement.
Life of a Consultant
15-20 Years
130K – 160K
10-15 Years
100K – 130K
5-10 Years
70K-100K
0-5 Years
55k – 70K
Airport Consulting
Career Path & Pay Escalation
* Pay estimates based on Central Florida 2020 Rates, escalation / reduction required for locale
Consulting
Aviation Planner II/III
Project Manager
Senior Aviation Planner
Aviation Planner I
Project Director
Senior Technical Director
Typical Airport Consultant Project
Forecast Future Demand
What facilities will create the capacity the airport will need to add to meet the forecasted demand
Decide where these facilities should go, and when they should be constructed.
Devise a plan for the airport to finance these projects.
Airport Master Plan
Lakeland Linder International Airport
LAL is located on an approximate 1,710-acre property in Polk County.
The Airport is located approximately five miles southwest of the City of Lakeland and 27 miles east of Tampa International Airport (TPA)
Forecasting
Forecasting
Annual Service Volume
An airport’s ASV is the maximum number of annual operations that can occur at an airport before an assumed reasonable operational delay value is encountered.
ASV is calculated based on factors.
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.
2. DANIEL K. BARTON
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.