OPTIMIZING AIRPORT RUNWAY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM - A DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING APPROACH

In order to reduce the air traffic delay in the terminal area, an immediate remedy is to increase airport capacity by an expansion of the existing runway system. The runway expansion program is often limited by budgetary constraints; the expensive facilities for a long-term improvement cannot be built at once. When a runway improvement strategy is being considered for a longer planning horizon, the investment decision depends upon the correlation of its composite periods. The problem, therefore, is to determine how time factor and investment decision interact to yield an optimal improvement scheme that meets demand at a minimum cost. With this objective in mind, a dynamic programming methodology is employed to determine the optimal planning scheme. Also, an example runway improvement problem is listed to illustrate how a dynamic programming model is practical in actual application.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • From Modeling and Simulation, Volume 6. Proceedings of the 6th Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, 24-25 April 1975.
• Corporate Authors:

  Instrument Society of America

  400 Stanwix Street
  Pittsburgh, PA  United States  15222
• Authors:
  • Yu, J C
  • Gibson, D
• Conference:
  • From Modeling and Simulation, Volume 6. Proceedings of the 6th Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, 24-25 April 1975.
• Publication Date: 1975

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 693-697

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Airport capacity; Airport runways; Costs; Dynamic programming; Expansion; Freight terminals; Improvements; Intermodal terminals; Investments; Methodology; Optimization; Traffic delays
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Finance; Freight Transportation; Pavements; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00155753
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: International Aerospace Abstracts
• Report/Paper Numbers: Proceeding
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 28 1977 12:00AM