A large-scale simulation model of Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport was constructed using the GKPSS/360 and Fortran IV languages. The model includes the movement of ground vehicles, passengers, and aircraft within the ground access, landside, airside, and terminal airspace sections of the airport system. Following extensive testing of the model to insure that it operated as intended, three percent, six percent, and nine percent growth rates per year in passenger traffic levels were used, representing pessimistic, most likely and optimistic forecasts, respectively for the time period 1975 to 1980. The experiments with the model indicated that severe congestion delays can be expected to occur at specific locations on the airport under the simulated future passenger loads. The means of alleviating those delays were evaluated through further experiments with the model. Further analyses of the experimental results demonstrated that interactive effects between parts of the airport system become increasingly important as heavier passenger loads are imposed upon the system.
Analysis of Passenger Congestion Delays at a Metropolitan Airport: A System Simulation Approach
1977
341 pages
Report
No indication
English
Air Transportation , Airports , Passenger transportation , Air transportation , Time lag , Computerized simulation , Systems analysis , Mathematical models , Fortran , Forecasting , Michigan , Runways , Air routes , Air traffic , Terminal air traffic control , Parking facilities , Passenger terminals , Systems engineering , Traffic congestion , Detroit Metropolitan Airport , Wayne County(Michigan) , IBM 360 computers , GPSS simulation language , Traffic flow
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