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Title:

Comparing Runway Capacity Between Two Italian Airports by Innovative Analysis Procedure

Accession Number:

01090143

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

In this paper runway capacity of the Linate airport (Milan, Italy) has been evaluated. This was scientifically estimated through an innovative analysis procedure based on survey data. The need of a methodology to get runway capacity arises from the fact that, till now, only American airports have been subjected to extensive researches. The main difference between USA and Italian airports lies in the aircraft sequencing rules: in fact, space distances between aircraft in USA are usually shorter than those adopted in Italy. This means that results obtained in US airports cannot be applied to Italian and European ones. The characterization of capacity periods takes place in three phases: in the first one, stationary periods have been extracted from the database. Stationary periods have similar time distance values between one flight and the subsequent. In the second phase only stationary periods with the lowest average distance values have been considered. These periods have been named ?critical periods?. In the third phase, critical periods have been cleared of all time distances over 7 minutes, so becoming capacity periods. Results obtained on the Linate runway have been finally compared to another runway. The analysis procedure is still to be implemented. Only 2 airports have been investigated: Linate is the third one. In order to be reliable other runways should be analyzed and data matched in order to get a quick method to estimate runway capacity. Software like SIMMOD should be used after capacity assessment with methods like that shown in this paper.

Monograph Accession #:

01084478

Report/Paper Numbers:

08-2065

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

de Riso di Carpinone, Vittorio

Pagination:

12p

Publication Date:

2008

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 87th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2008-1-13 to 2008-1-17
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

DVD

Features:

Figures; Maps; References (11) ; Tables (11)

Geographic Terms:

Italy

Subject Areas:

Aviation; Operations and Traffic Management; Pavements; Terminals and Facilities

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2008 Paper #08-2065

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Jan 29 2008 4:25PM