Abstract
Ever growing traffic in air transport with associated capacity constraints brings problems to air passenger flows at airports. There is strong link between quality of airport ground access system and airport terminal operations. However, this aspect remains underestimated in the development plans of many airports all over the world, which results in underutilization of both planed and existing infrastructure. In efforts for improvement, the higher level of synchronization and coordination between air and ground transport needs to be achieved. For this purpose, a computer model enabling to simulate passenger flows within airport's catchment area has been developed by the Air Transport Department, University of Zilina. Thanks to this simulation model, it is possible to perform comprehensive operational, economic and environmental assessment of the innovative airport ground access concepts and thus facilitate designing and operating airports as nodes of intermodal transport.
Highlights
Due to physical and nuisance constraints the airports have always been built far from the city centres and their operations have always been dependent on the ground transport [2]
In order to fill this gap in research and development, our research aims at developing passenger flow model that would be able to simulate passenger flows from the place of origin to the airport and back
The model assumptions are based on extensive passenger survey at Bratislava airport and on operational data collection exercise that was performed at Bratislava airport and at Brno-Turany airport
Summary
Due to physical and nuisance constraints the airports have always been built far from the city centres and their operations have always been dependent on the ground transport [2]. G Environment: Traffic generated by the airport has a major influence on the surrounding environment This influence increases with the size and throughput of the airport, its proximity to the built up residential area and with the share of individual car access trips [4]. Even most of airport landside operations models developed using either generic or dedicated simulation software packages (e.g. PaxSim, SLAM, WITNESS, ARENA or EXTEND) are designed for simulating the passenger and baggage flows only between curb-side and apron. This approach provides valuable data concerning capacity, delays or processing bottlenecks, in some cases, identified capacity constraints are only the symptoms of the actual problem. The AGAP model represents a powerful tool allowing user to perform comprehensive operational, economic and environmental assessment of innovative airport ground access concepts
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