Traffic Related Representative Airport Categories for Technology Impact Evaluation

Abstract

Technology impact evaluations in air transport require the specification of environment conditions, such as the traffic structure. Since a multitude of worldwide traffic situations exists, this paper presents a systematic approach based on cluster analysis that can handle the worldwide diversity, while ensuring to determine most relevant traffic situations. This is crucial for the universality and global relevance of evaluation results. The approach is presented for the application example of runway capacity evaluation, as part of which features of daily movement distributions of airports and the traffic mix as well as peak situations are quantified. The resulting representative airport and peak categories comprise a limited set of typical traffic situations worldwide that can serve as standard input for capacity-related evaluation, ensuring comparability and clarity.

Evolutionary Fleet Development Considering Airport Capacity Limitations and their Mitigation

“…Öttl [7] extends this view to a global influence analysis of new aircraft concepts on runway capacity. He mapped the variety of different airport types via a cluster analysis and depicted the range of possible air traffic developments at these airports through various scenarios [7].…”

“…By setting up simulation tools for specific airports, he estimated the influence of the introduction of new aircraft types on these airports' capacities [6]. Öttl [7] extends this view to a global influence analysis of new aircraft concepts on runway capacity. He mapped the variety of different airport types via a cluster analysis and depicted the range of possible air traffic developments at these airports through various scenarios [7].…”