ANALYSIS OF A CAPACITY CONCEPT FOR RUNWAY AND FINAL-APPROACH PATH AIRSPACE

A maximum throughput rate concept, for the capacity of a runway and its associated final-approach path airspace, is developed as a possible alternative for some purposes to the present concept embodied in the Airport Capacity Handbook which is based on a tolerable average delay level. The new concept is shown to be representable by a simple mathematical formula. Illustrative numerical calculations and parametric sensitivity analyses are included. Suggestions for natural extensions of the present brief study are formulated. Technical appendices include peripheral studies of capacity-increasing techniques for deviating from a first-come first-served treatment of arriving aircraft.

• Corporate Authors:

  National Bureau of Standards

  Technical Analysis Division & Applied Mathemics
  ,   United States 
• Publication Date: 1969-11

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Airport capacity; Airport runways; Approach
• Uncontrolled Terms: Airspace capacity
• Old TRIS Terms: Final approach
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Operations and Traffic Management; Pavements;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00074095
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: FLIGHT TRANSPORTATION LABORATORY, MIT DEPT. OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS
• Report/Paper Numbers: 10111
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 5 1974 12:00AM