DELAYS TO AIRCRAFT SERVICED BY THE GLIDE-PATH

This paper considers some of the statistical service, flow and delay problems which arriving aircraft encounter in the glide-path of an airport runway. Mathematical expressions for service time distributions and delays are formulated in terms of the probability distributions of spacings between discharges of the glide-path. In this paper the author also considers some numerical solutions of the average glide-path separation as a function of w, the verage delay to arriving aircraft.Xo, a minimum glide separation and lamda the average Poisson flow rate of landing aircraft.

• Corporate Authors:

  University of California, Berkeley

  California PATH Program, Institute of Transportation Studies
  Richmond Field Station, 1357 South 46th Street
  Richmond, CA  United States  94804-4648
• Authors:
  • Oliver, R
• Publication Date: 1962-6

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aircraft separation; Airport capacity; Approach; Glide path systems; Landing; Time intervals; Traffic delays
• Uncontrolled Terms: Airspace capacity
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00074070
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: FLIGHT TRANSPORTATION LABORATORY, MIT DEPT. OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS
• Report/Paper Numbers: 119
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 5 1974 12:00AM