Analysis of Taxiway Aircraft Traffic at George Bush Intercontinental Airport, Houston, Texas

Serving one of the largest metropolitan areas in the United States, the George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) in Houston, Texas, is one of the 10 airports with the longest average taxi-out and taxi-in times. This paper assesses the congestion at IAH by analyzing taxi times and flight data during different hours of the day. The capacity of IAH is investigated by examining the number of departing flights on the ground. IAH is operating close to capacity most of the time. Because increasing airport capacity can mitigate congestion, this report develops a surface operation model based on analyzed results to achieve this aim. A mixed-integer programming formulation is proposed to optimize total taxi times by finding optimal taxi routes and the related schedules. The model is applied to a sample from real data.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.3141/2266-10
• Summary URL:
  • http://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?title=Analysis+of+Taxiway+Aircraft+Traffic+at+George+Bush+Intercontinental+Airport%2c+Houston%2c+Texas&author=K.+Yin&author=C.+Tian&author=B.+Wang&author=L.+Quadrifoglio&publication_year=2012
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This is Paper #12-0104 in the Transportation Research Board 91st Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers.
• Authors:
  • Yin, Kai
  • 0000-0002-4440-4846
  • Tian, Chunyu
  • Wang, Bruce X
  • Quadrifoglio, Luca
• Publication Date: 2012

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 85-94
• Monograph Title: Public-Sector Aviation: Graduate Research Awards Papers, 2010-2011
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
  • Issue Number: 2266
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Airport capacity; Ground handling; Mixed integer programming; Optimization; Taxiing; Taxiways; Time duration
• Candidate Terms: Airport congestion
• Identifier Terms: George Bush Intercontinental Airport
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Operations and Traffic Management; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01375585
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780309223058
• Report/Paper Numbers: AGRA12-10
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Jul 17 2012 2:00PM