Efficient use of an allotted airport annual noise budget through minimax optimization of runway allocations

This article presents the development of a runway allocation planning tool that seeks to maximize the permissible number of flight operations into and out of an airport within a given annual noise budget. Although the model that underlies the planning tool is generic in nature, the tool has been customized for application to a specific airport, namely, Amsterdam airport Schiphol in the Netherlands. The noise budget regulations applicable at Schiphol stipulate limits on the annual cumulative noise loads at a large number of enforcement points arranged around the airport. To ensure an equitable distribution of the cumulative noise load at the enforcement points, an efficient allocation and distribution of the annual flight movements over available runways and routes is required that takes weather induced restrictions into account. To this end, a linear programming optimization formulation has been developed that implements a minimax performance criterion that aims to minimize the maximum cumulative noise load value occurring at any of the enforcement points. The numerical results obtained for the operational year 2005 clearly demonstrate the potential of the tool to maximize the yearly number of flight movements within the assigned noise budget.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1177/0954410012447767
• Record URL:
  http://pig.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/227/6/1021
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/oclc/19966973
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications, Ltd.
• Authors:
  • Kuiper, Bryan R
  • Visser, Hendrikus G
  • Heblij, Sander
• Publication Date: 2013-6

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 1021-1035
• Serial:
  • Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering
  • Volume: 227
  • Issue Number: 6
  • Publisher: Sage Publications, Incorporated
  • ISSN: 0954-4100
  • EISSN: 2041-3025
  • Serial URL: http://pig.sagepub.com/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aircraft noise; Airport capacity; Airport operations; Airport runways; Noise control; Optimization; Regulation
• Identifier Terms: Amsterdam Schiphol Airport
• Geographic Terms: Amsterdam (Netherlands)
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Environment; Operations and Traffic Management; Terminals and Facilities; I15: Environment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01482758
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 3 2013 9:16AM