The Consolidated Rental Car Facility in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, accommodates twelve rental car companies in a nine-story, 9,000-car facility. Connections to the airport terminals are achieved with a pedestrian bridge and a dedicated busway for shuttle buses. The garage consists of five stories of rental car concessions and four stories of airport public parking on the top floors. Public parking floors accommodate 1,200 cars per floor for a total of 4,800 passenger parking spaces. Level One of the facility includes a maintenance area (quick turnaround area) with fueling, washing, vacuuming and staging for up to 1,000 rental cars. Levels Two, Three and Four include customer counter areas and “ready” spaces (ready return area), with 1,000 cars per level. Functioning as an extension of the airport’s ground access system, the nine-level facility provides easy access for vehicles and pedestrians to the auto rental companies, daily and hourly parking levels, and pedestrian transfer areas. The CRCF will connect the local community and traveling public to major transportation hubs (airport and port) as part of a planned public transit system.
