A Simulation Model For Estimating Airport Terminal Area Throughputs And Delays

The report documents a simulation model (DELCAP) designed to estimate airport throughputs and aircraft delays, taking into account their dependence on the traffic level and mix of user types, the airport configuration, and the separation rules in force. The model is implemented in two parts: a user may elect instead of providing his own, and an event-oriented simulation model. The report includes a discussion of the elements in the airport system which are modeled, a description of the simulation model's logic, and a set of sample outputs. Listings of the model programs, and a user's guide to their operation, appear as appendices. (Author).

The report documents a simulation model (DELCAP) designed to estimate airport throughputs and aircraft delays, taking into account their dependence on the traffic level and mix of user types, the airport configuration, and the separation rules in force. The model is implemented in two parts: a user may elect instead of providing his own, and an event-oriented simulation model. The report includes a discussion of the elements in the airport system which are modeled, a description of the simulation model's logic, and a set of sample outputs. Listings of the model programs, and a user's guide to their operation, appear as appendices. (Author).

Lists airport technical and research reports sponsored by the Federal Aviation Administration in a subject arrangement.

"TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 104: Defining and Measuring Aircraft Delay and Airport Capacity Thresholds offers guidance to help airports understand, select, calculate, and report measures of delay and capacity. The report describes common metrics, identifies data sources, recommends metrics based on an airport's needs, and suggests ways to potentially improve metrics."--Publisher's description.

&Quot;This proceedings contains 31 papers from the International Conference on Airport Modeling and Simulation held on August 17-20, 1997, in Arlington, Virginia. The papers cover many areas of aviation simulation and modeling, including air traffic management, airport ground traffic, terminal design and operations, planning, forecasting, financing, and environmental studies."--BOOK JACKET.

This report documents exercises of the DELCAP airport terminal area simulation model performed to validate the maximum throughput calculations of that model. DELCAP was run for five different runway configurations, with three or four appropriate operating policies chosen for each, and for three different mixes of aircraft types. Throughput estimates from DELCAP are found to be in general agreement with current values provided by the FAA. One specific instance of greater discrepancy is identified, and a remedy for it is proposed. Changes made in DELCAP since its original documentation in 1971 are described in an appendix.