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FACILITY REQUIREMENTS The overflow lot was used on 65 percent of the days of 2016; there were no rental cars in the overflow lot on 129 days of the year. The maximum number of cars stored in that lot on any day was 192, while the mean daily usage was 28 stored cars. On 29 days of 2016 (eight percent of the days), 100 or more cars were in the overflow lot. In the rental car industry, the requirement for physical space to store cars is best viewed in the aggregate. The size of the ready-return lot, while important, is not the only critical requirement. The key for the industry is to have cars available when customers need them, which speaks to their overall fleet size, not just the number which are in the ready lot. If the ready-return lot is somewhat small, the spaces turn over a greater number of times in the peak hour (or over the course of the peak day), typically implying the need for more personnel to shuttle the cars out to service and back into the ready lot. While there can be a trade-off between ready-return lot size and operating strategy, in the aggregate, the industry needs to be able to store the cars in its fleet on-airport on the days when the fewest of them are out being rented. The requirements analysis examined both leased elements – ready-return and service areas – as well as their sum. The requirements reflect the idea that the facilities should be sized to significantly reduce the number of days in the year that overflow storage is necessary, from 236 days down to no more than 28 days per year. Future demand for rental cars was estimated from current peak hour demand using growth rates in peak hour passenger activity. Data were developed for the peak month of transaction activity, which is June. During June, there are more rentals, although their duration is not as long as in the later summer months, and thus the overall revenue is not at its peak. The data for the evaluation of facility requirements and the projection to the three future PALs are shown in Table 3-27. The demand basis for the average day of the peak month in 2016 estimates that the ready-return lot and the service area were 95 percent full, and there were 100 cars in the overflow area. Given that the practical capacity of both rental car facilities is 90 percent of the total spaces (so there is always a space for a returning customer, and the ability to move peak hour returned cars into the service area to maintain empty spaces in the return lot), then today the airport is short by a combined total of 118 spaces, as the use of the overflow lot is not a desirable alternative. EUGENE AIRPORT MASTER PLAN 3-52