The goal of this study was to develop a runway allocation optimization tool that seeks to maximize the permissible number of yearly flight movements within a specified noise budget. In this context a noise budget is to be understood as a set of regulations specifying that outside a certain surface area of land around the airport, community noise levels should not exceed certain specified annual limits. Although the runway allocation tool has been developed with a particular example airport in mind, namely, Schiphol airport, the model underlying the tool is sufficiently generic to permit application to other airports that are subject to similar noise budget restrictions. To enable an efficient use of the available noise budget, a minimax optimization model has been formulated that aims to reduce the risk of exceeding the noise limit at any point along the boundary of the protected area. In the case of Schiphol airport, a noise budget is imposed at a discrete number of specified points, called enforcement points, located on the boundary contour of the protected area. Due to the large-scale nature of the runway allocation planning problem, combined with limited computational resources, not all of the enforcement points were included in the optimization formulation presented in this study. Nevertheless, the number and distribution of the enforcement that were selected proved to be adequate to produce meaningful results. Indeed, the minimax optimization analysis resulted in a rather efficient noise distribution, reducing the maximum noise energy at any of the enforcement points included in the optimization formulation to a level some 10% below the permissible value, without overloading the enforcement points that were not included at the optimization analysis. Future research will focus on the development of a modeling approach that allows for more enforcement points to be taken into account at a reasonable computational cost, and that will include capacity constraints due to poor visibility conditions. It needs to be noted that as of 1 November 2010, a new set of experimental noise regulations has been put into place at Schiphol airport, for the duration of a period of two years. The primary goal of the new set of regulations is to minimize the expected number of annoyed people, the same objective as used in the original SNAP (Strategic Noise Allocation Planning) tool that formed the basis for the present development. However, the existing regulations pertaining to the noise budget imposed at the enforcement points remains in principle intact. For this reason, the continued development of the minimax runway allocation optimization remains of considerable interest for Schiphol airport. Due to its flexible, generic nature the tool can be applied to other airports with similar annual noise budget restrictions as well.


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    Title :

    Efficient use of an allotted airport annual noise budget through minimax optimization of runway allocations


    Additional title:

    Effiziente Verwendung eines zugewiesenen jährlichen Flughafen-Lärmbudgets durch Minimax-Optimierung der Start/Landebahn-Bereitstellungen


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    2013


    Size :

    15 Seiten, 9 Bilder, 5 Tabellen, 13 Quellen




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English





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