Estimating the Effects of the Terminal Area Productivity Program

Estimating the Effects of the Terminal Area Productivity Program
Author: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2018-07-17
Genre:
ISBN: 9781723044328

The report describes methods and results of an analysis of the technical and economic benefits of the systems to be developed in the NASA Terminal Area Productivity (TAP) program. A runway capacity model using parameters that reflect the potential impact of the TAP technologies is described. The runway capacity model feeds airport specific models which are also described. The capacity estimates are used with a queuing model to calculate aircraft delays, and TAP benefits are determined by calculating the savings due to reduced delays. The report includes benefit estimates for Boston Logan and Detroit Wayne County airports. An appendix includes a description and listing of the runway capacity model. Lee, David A. and Kostiuk, Peter F. and Hemm, Robert V., Jr. and Wingrove, Earl R., III and Shapiro, Gerald Langley Research Center AIRPORTS; PRODUCTIVITY; TERMINAL FACILITIES; TIME LAG; MODELS; WEATHER; AIRLINE OPERATIONS; RUNWAYS; ECONOMICS; COSTS; CAPACITY; STANDARD DEVIATION; MEAN; OPERATIONAL PROBLEMS; NASA PROGRAMS...

Terminal Area Productivity Airport Wind Analysis and Chicago O'Hare Model Description

Terminal Area Productivity Airport Wind Analysis and Chicago O'Hare Model Description
Author: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2018-07-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9781722844172

This paper describes two results from a continuing effort to provide accurate cost-benefit analyses of the NASA Terminal Area Productivity (TAP) program technologies. Previous tasks have developed airport capacity and delay models and completed preliminary cost benefit estimates for TAP technologies at 10 U.S. airports. This task covers two improvements to the capacity and delay models. The first improvement is the completion of a detailed model set for the Chicago O'Hare (ORD) airport. Previous analyses used a more general model to estimate the benefits for ORD. This paper contains a description of the model details with results corresponding to current conditions. The second improvement is the development of specific wind speed and direction criteria for use in the delay models to predict when the Aircraft Vortex Spacing System (AVOSS) will allow use of reduced landing separations. This paper includes a description of the criteria and an estimate of AVOSS utility for 10 airports based on analysis of 35 years of weather data. Hemm, Robert and Shapiro, Gerald Langley Research Center NAS2-14361; RTOP 538-04-14-02...

Air Traffic Control

Air Traffic Control
Author: Max Mulder
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2010-08-17
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9533071036

Improving air traffic control and air traffic management is currently one of the top priorities of the global research and development agenda. Massive, multi-billion euro programs like SESAR (Single European Sky ATM Research) in Europe and NextGen (Next Generation Air Transportation System) in the United States are on their way to create an air transportation system that meets the demands of the future. Air traffic control is a multi-disciplinary field that attracts the attention of many researchers, ranging from pure mathematicians to human factors specialists, and even in the legal and financial domains the optimization and control of air transport is extensively studied. This book, by no means intended to be a basic, formal introduction to the field, for which other textbooks are available, includes nine chapters that demonstrate the multi-disciplinary character of the air traffic control domain.

Greening Airports

Greening Airports
Author: Milan Janić
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2011-06-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0857296582

Greening Airports considers the “greening”, i.e., more sustainable development, of the entire air transport system – airports, air traffic control, and airlines – that could be achieved by the development and implementation of advanced operations and technologies. A broad overview of the general concept is given at the start of Greening Airports, which then goes on to provide a system for monitoring and assessing the level of greening of both the air transport system and individual airports. These are followed by analysis and modelling of the potential effects of particular advanced operations and technologies on the greening of airports and their local airspace. These include: the development of a large airport into a multimodal transport node by connecting it to a high speed rail network; the use of operations supported by new and existing air traffic control technologies to increase landing capacity of existing runways; the use of liquid hydrogen as a commercial aviation fuel; and the improvement of airport ground accessibility by a light rail rapid transit system. Greening Airports is written for researchers, planners, operators and policy makers in air transport.