Orlando International Airport (OIA) serves over 43 million passengers each year. The main highway entrance to OIA from the north is Jeff Fuqua Blvd, which is also known as the Loop Road, as this highway “loops” around passenger terminals A and B. The existing asphalt pavement of the Loop Road needed to be rehabilitated, while minimizing the impacts to the passengers, employees, vendors and commercial vehicles arriving and departing the airport.

DRMP's design team worked with Greater Orlando Aviation Authority (GOAA) staff to develop a project design that would have the least amount of impacts to day-to-day operations. This started with using mobile LiDAR for the existing pavement survey, which eliminated the need for lane closures that conventional survey would have required.  The design included the milling and resurfacing of 21-miles of asphalt pavement on the Loop Road, ramps and parking garage entrances/exits. The maintenance of traffic was developed with time restrictions that only allowed lane closures at night when traffic was at its lowest. This project also included the addition of highway lighting, signing and pavement markings, permitting, drainage analysis and surveying.

The resurfaced Loop Road is safer for motorists during difficult driving conditions and provides GOAA with an extended roadway lifespan.