Proper management of aircraft departure queues so that the aircrafts wait at the gate rather than before the runway entry point is important for reducing fuel consumption at airports. This study proposes a method to apply an aircraft departure model on a runway with time-varying fluid queues to a mixed takeoff/landing runway. As a case study, this study applied this departure queueing model to the daily operation of runway 34R at Tokyo International Airport and estimated departure waiting times using actual departure traffic data. The results revealed that aircrafts were waiting before the runway entry point for approximately one hour per day. This is due to the inability to accurately predict the waiting time in front of the runway or to appropriately allocate waiting time at the gate according to the predicted waiting time, which results in the waste of approximately 1 ton of fuel. It was also shown that the validity of the model can be improved by changing the service time according to the number of arriving aircrafts per unit time. Furthermore, information that departure management system should obtain from the arrival management system for their future integration was discussed.
Developing Aircraft Departure Queueing Models for a Mixed Takeoff/Landing Operational Runway
Lect. Notes Electrical Eng.
Asia-Pacific International Symposium on Aerospace Technology ; 2023 ; Lingshui, China October 16, 2023 - October 18, 2023
2023 Asia-Pacific International Symposium on Aerospace Technology (APISAT 2023) Proceedings ; Chapter : 48 ; 555-570
2024-07-02
16 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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