Tutorial - Secure zoning & multiple terminals

If you want to create separated secure zones and/or setup multiple terminals in AirportCEO or if you have issues setting it up, please read this guide to get started. Hope you enjoy, please leave a comment if you have any remarks or questions.

Preparation

As this is a guide please do not pay any attention to the lay-out of the airport, this is just for functional purposes. You can obviously built your airport the way you want it to be laid out, but keep the security zones separated as described in this guide. This way you can built security station(s) per stand for example, costly but will release you from any congestion at centralised security desks. But you can also layout different zones in other parts of your terminal, or make any creative layout you can think of, but be sure the secure area’s are separated!

This chapter and the next will cover the basics around terminal, stand and secure zone setup, if you are already familiar with that please continue to the 'Multiple security zones' chapter.

Ok, let's start with the basics, layout a foundation:


Build one or multiple stands for secure zone A, in this example I used medium stands:


Lay out the taxiway foundation


Connect the taxiway path to the stand(s)


Determine the size of the secure zone A compared to the stand(s), waiting area, etc and create secure zone A

As said this is the basic setup of a terminal, stands, taxiway, taxi path and secure zone. Please continue to the 'Secure zone setup' chapter to learn about the basics around security zones.

Security zone setup

This chapter will cover the basics of setting up a security zone, if you are already familiar with that please continue to the 'Multiple security zones' chapter.

The basic layout is there and the first security zone has been created. The next step is to add the necessary items to the security zone.

Add security station(s) to secure zone A, small security stations have been used in this example

Add the boarding desk(s) to the stand(s)

Same secure zone with medium security stations

Place the security area exit(s)

Select the flight type you want accept

Check that the security stations are connected to the stands

This is the standard way of setting up a security zone, built stations, boarding desks, accept flights and connect security stations to stands. This works the same if you create one big secure zone and have centralised security stations. The next chapter will cover the multi secure zone setup.

Multiple security zones

This chapter will cover the way to setup multiple security zones side by side. This way passengers will be able to choose the correct security station(s) belonging to the departure stand(s). If security zones are not separated or if security stations are connected to stands in different security zones, passengers can end up in the wrong area and miss their flight causing delays on your airport. This example will cover three different separated zones, but you can create as many zones as you want in your airport setup.

Follow steps in the first two chapters to built new stands to the setup. Please note that at minimum one buidling block separates the stands you want to designate to different security zones, otherwise the zones will be connected through the stands

Add the security zones and also keep the zones separated!

If all has been built correct, the secure zones should not be connected and the secure stations in the separated zones must only be connected to the zone they are built in.

Security station in secure zone C is only connected to secure zone C attached stand (and the same should be the case for security zone B)

Security stations in secure zone A should only be connected to secure zone A attached stands

Please keep in mind to always place 'security area exits' in all security zones, otherwise your passengers cannot leave the secure zone!

Keep them separated

This chapter will cover the way you could create secure zones layouts towards another area and still keep them separated.

As you can see in the example the security zones have been extended to another location and the security station are also moved outside the area. This is just to illustrate you could still have security stations separated from the stands and even centralised as long as you keep the zones separated. Here the small secure station is connected to zone C

Here the medium security station is connected to only secure zone B

In this example only one security station is used for security zone B and C, but like in secure zone A you can have multiple secure stations if you want as long as you place them in the correct and separated secure zone.

Multiple terminals

When you keep to the rules of the separated security zones, you are also able to create separated, or multiple, buildings or 'terminals'. It's not a fully implemented multiple terminals setup yet, but it's a first step in the right direction. For terminal support we should, amongst others, be able to designate separated terminals, connect bus/car stops, allocate (secure) zones, etc.

In this setup 4 terminals / separate buildings are created with a centralised check-in building

Terminal 1 has 3 security zones the others have 1 security zone. That can be setup in any way you want to create your terminal/building setup, as long as you keep to the separates zones rules.
When you have baggage support on your airport you can also have check-in desks in separated buildings by assigning the baggage bay to a stand and a check-in to the baggage bay, then PAX will check in at the right terminal/buidling.

Please keep in mind that bus/car stops and subways are not and cannot yet be connected to a terminal/building, so the passengers will spawn at random and can cause them to walk long distances to other buildings. So always keep all buildings connected through walkways and crossovers, so passengers can walk to the correct building.

As stated in the beginning of this guide, as this is a guide please do not pay any attention to the lay-out of the airport, stands, secure zones, security stations, terminals, etc as this is just for functional purposes.

Hope this guide will help you to setup separated secure zones and helps you in your creativity to make beautiful airports, happy flights!

[Humoresque]

As a silent youtuber about ACEO its about time I make a terminal zone giude

[marc aus nuernberg]

Will there be a guide HOW to do terminal zoning with the terminal paint tool?

I paint one terminal with the tool... ok, this works. show me how many buildings, stands, people, etc. ... but I neither am able to draw a terminal zone on my other terminal nor can I say these people work especially here, others there - what it should allow me to.

Where can I find, how to do this.

All through the net I don't find anything when I search for "Airport CEO how to terminal paint tool"

Any tips, as I don't get it how to do it...?

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[76561198863931888]

good though im at regional airport with a shit grass field and the stands keep saying "stand not connceted to secutiry stand"

[pro_puma]

Hi Vavou, your welcome, hope it helped. The current version of the game does not support multiple terminals as an actual multiple terminal, so currently personnel can indeed be send to tasks at the other end of the map. In the upcoming updates multiple terminals will be properly supported by the game, so keep an eye out for the dev blogs on when that will be released.

[Vavou]

Hi !
Thank you very much for this guide!
I was wondering: are the ramp officers working in one terminal not going to cross the whole map to get off an airplane from another terminal for instance?
(Likewise for all other staff for their own tasks)

[pro_puma]

@AdmiralC because of game mechanics that is not possible within the same zone, so only way to solve it is to check people let them out through a security exit and then scan them again at the gate for example. Is there a reason why you want to do that, or do you want to simulate customs? FYI that will be part of the upcoming updates in Alpha 34/35/36, don't exactly know which version.