A DYNAMIC SIMULATION STUDY OF AIR TRAFFIC CAPACITY IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY TERMINAL AREA

A DYNAMIC SIMULATION OF AIR TRAFFIC OPERATIONS IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY TERMINAL AREA WAS CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE AIR TRAFFIC CAPACITY ESTIMATES WHEN SEVERAL DIFFERENT AIRPORT EXPANSION PLANS WERE IMPLEMENTED. CAPACITY ESTIMATES WERE MADE FOR THE FOLLOWING SEPARATE CONDITIONS: FIRST, THE PRESENT DAY SYSTEM SLIGHTLY MODIFIED TO ACCOMMODATE AN INCREASED VOLUME OF TRAFFIC; SECOND, WITH THE OPERATION OF AN ADDITIONAL RUNWAY AT SAN FRANCISCO AIRPORT; THIRD, WITH THE OPERATION OF AN ADDITIONAL RUNWAY AT OAKLAND AIRPORT; AND FOURTH, WITH THE OPERATION OF A NEW MULTIPARALLEL RUNWAY AIRPORT LOCATED NEAR THE SOUTH END OF SAN FRANCISCO BAY AND WITHOUT THE EXPANSION TO EITHER SAN FRANCISCO OR OAKLAND AIRPORTS. AN ESTIMATE WAS ALSO MADE OF THE TOTAL SYSTEM CAPACITY WHEN ALL AIRPORT EXPANSIONS WERE IMPLEMENTED. /AUTHOR/ (GRA)

• Corporate Authors:

  National Aviation Facilities Experimental Center

  Federal Aviation Administration
  Atlantic City, NJ  United States  08405
• Authors:
  • Obrien, P J
• Publication Date: 1971-8

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 114 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air traffic; Airport capacity; Airport planning; Airport runways; Development; Expansion; Forecasting; Highway capacity; Parallel runways; Simulation; Taxiways; Traffic simulation
• Identifier Terms: Metropolitan Oakland International Airport; San Francisco International Airport
• Uncontrolled Terms: Airspace capacity
• Old TRIS Terms: Air traffic forecasts; Parallel taxiways
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Pavements; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00226631
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: International Aerospace Abstracts
• Report/Paper Numbers: FAA-15400501 Final Rpt.
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Jul 16 1974 12:00AM