As described in the August edition of STRUCTURE® magazine, Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport opened the first stage of their automated transit system, PHX Sky Train™, on April 8, 2013. Thousands of passengers have already boarded the Sky Train and experienced the comfortable five minute ride from the 44th Street Station through the East Economy Lot Station, over Taxiway “R” (more than 100 feet above Sky Harbor Blvd.), ending at Terminal 4. …
Author Archives : David A. Burrows, CBE, P.E., FICE, FASCE, MIStructE, LEED-AP
Steve Burrows was a Director of Arup, EVP at WSP, and Executive at Katerra. He is now a Principal Consultant at Cameron MacAllister Group and a Founding Partner of Baumatix Building Automation. (burrows@cameronmacallister.com)
The First Precast Open Box Girders for Phoenix and Arizona
This is the second in a series of articles about the components of the new PHX Sky Train™ in Phoenix, Arizona. Part 1 of the series was published in the July 2013 issue of STRUCTURE magazine, and Part 3 will appear in an upcoming issue. …
On April 8, 2013, Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport opened the first stage of the PHX Sky Train™, a 5-mile long automated transit system exclusively serving the Airport. Expected to carry 2.5 million passengers a year, the system provides a dedicated, streamlined, safe, convenient, and more sustainable transportation link between airport terminals, parking lots, rental car center and regional light-rail transit facilities, and reduces congestion around the airport terminals. This is no small feat given that Sky Harbor is one of the ten busiest airports in the country. …