| Autor: |
George J. Couluris, David Signor, Susan E. Cliff, John E. Melton, Anna Dabrowski |
| Rok vydání: |
2006 |
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| Zdroj: |
AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference and Exhibit. |
| DOI: |
10.2514/6.2006-6613 |
| Popis: |
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is addressing technological and operational approaches to reducing aircraft turnaround time at airport terminal gates. In support of NASA, this preliminary investigation parametrically analyzes potential impacts on runway system delay at three study site airports: Chicago O'Hare (ORD); Boston Logan (BOS); Las Vegas McCarran (LAS). The study assesses takeoff and landing delay impacts using NASA's Airspace Concepts Evaluation System (ACES). ACES is a fast- time simulation of gate-to-gate flights in the nationwide airport and airspace system. ACES is adapted to represent capacities at each study airport for 2004 and to model aircraft connections for paired gate arrival-departure flights and non-connected flights. The analysis examines alternative gate connection scheduling procedures based on schedule padding, reduced minimum turnaround time and schedule slack parameters. The scheduled departure times for gate-connected flights are shifted to account for minimum turnaround time reduction without changing the arrival flight schedule. The minimum turnaround time reductions range from 11 to 30 minutes depending on aircraft type; these parameter values are half the reported current minimum turnaround times. A gate departure scheduling procedure examined in this study maintains approximately the overall origin-destination market scheduling policy and contains schedule slack useful for absorbing gate arrival delays. The study finds that reduced minimum turnaround time has a generally positive impact on runway system operations subject to favorable traffic loading patterns. Delay reduction gains are associated with the capability to shift connected departure flights to earlier scheduled gate departure times such that traffic peaks at the runway system are diminished while retaining schedule slack. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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