Abstract
At the international level, the interest in airport capacity is growing in the last years because its maximization ensures the best performances of the infrastructure. However, infrastructure, procedure, human factor constraints should be considered to ensure a safe and regular flow to the flights. This paper analyzed the airport capacity of an airport with two crossing runways. The fast time simulation allowed modeling the baseline scenario (current traffic volume and composition) and six operative scenarios; for each scenario, the traffic was increased until double the current volume. The obtained results in terms of average delay and throughput were analyzed to identify the best performing and operative layout and the most suitable to manage increasing hourly movements within the threshold delay of 10 min. The obtained results refer to the specific examined layout, and all input data were provided by the airport management body: the results are reliable, and the pursued approach could be implemented to different airports.
Highlights
There are several definitions of “airside capacity” in the literature: it quantifies the aptitude of airport infrastructure to accommodate a number of movements in a unit of the reference time
According to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the airport capacity is the maximum number of simultaneous movements of aircraft and vehicles that the system can safely support with an acceptable delay commensurate with the runway and taxiway capacity of the aerodrome [1]
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)-sponsored Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) assumes the capacity as the maximum number of sustained movements per unit of time that can be accepted during different local capacity factors [4,5,6]
Summary
There are several definitions of “airside capacity” in the literature: it quantifies the aptitude of airport infrastructure to accommodate a number of movements in a unit of the reference time. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)-sponsored Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) assumes the capacity as the maximum number of sustained movements per unit of time that can be accepted during different local capacity factors [4,5,6]. ACRP introduces the concept of “sustainable capacity” and refers to local capacity factors: it would lead to specifying the definition to other parameters and obtaining different specific capacity values for each situation. It would provide more detailed information than the actual state of the infrastructure in its various configurations, but a single value of capacity is currently required and declared. The results from different scenarios have allowed the identification of the best performing configuration
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