airport capacity

Analytical method for calculating sustainable airport capacity

Capacity is the attitude of an airport to manage a number of operations in a given time interval within a fixed maximum delay (and under given safety conditions). Capacity studies are commonly carried out on five levels of analysis according to the required detail in order to identify the best option that balances economic, logistic and safety issues. This study focuses on level 3 (i.e., analytical methods) developing a calculation model to assess the runway capacity.

A critical comparison of airport capacity studies

Airport traffic management should solve a trade-off between minimising congestion and maximising capacity: different methods are available in the literature to assess the maximum traffic flow that an airport infrastructure can manage under satisfactory conditions.The paper compares the output from two approaches currently adopted to compute airport capacity: the Advisory Circular AC 150/5060-5 and the AirTOp Fast Time Simulator (FTS).

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