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Títol: Airport system capacity analysis

Estudiants que han llegit aquest projecte:

Director/a: PONS PRATS, JORDI

Departament: FIS

Títol: Airport system capacity analysis

Data inici oferta: 22-07-2022     Data finalització oferta: 22-03-2023


Estudis d'assignació del projecte:
    GR ENG SIST AEROESP
Tipus: Individual
 
Lloc de realització: EETAC
 
Segon director/a (UPC): KULJANIN, JOVANA
 
Paraules clau:
Airport, Capacity and delay, Network, Air Transport, Barcelona Airport
 
Descripció del contingut i pla d'activitats:
As stated by Hamzawi 1992; "Lack of sufficient airport capacity
to meet traffic demands and the resulting problem of congestion
and delays plague the aviation system at many major airports
around the world. As traffic continues to grow, the problem
worsens. This issue has become a major concern of airport
authorities and airlines and innovative means of accommodating
the ever-increasing airline traffic have been sought."

As the paper, the project wants to explore some approaches for
coping with the underlying problem of imbalance between the
available airport capacity and the traffic demands placed on the
system. Four basic alternative approaches are analysed:
increasing the capacity through building new airports or
expansion of existing facilities; reducing the demand by
transferring portions of it to alternate locations or to other
transportation modes; spreading the traffic peaks through
economic or administrative measures to make the demand fit within
the available capacity; and application of new technology and
innovative operational practices to optimize the operation and
usage of airport facilities. The effectiveness of each approach
in relieving congestion and the implementation difficulties
involved are discussed and final conclusions are presented. The
scope of the paper has generally been confined to the landside
component of the airport system.

Work plane to follow is:
- Background;
- Demand and Capacity
- Airline business strategies
- Airport network, and airspace network,
- Regulations, standard by ICAO, IATA (what is defined at ADRM by
IATA)
- Airport configuration wrt capacity/demand balance (paper 1-
s2.0-S0969699712001573-main.pdf)

- Strategies proposed by Hamzawi 1992 (paper 1-s2.0-
0965856492900448-main.pdf)
- Understanding the strategies and their implications
- Assessing other strategies
- Applicability and limitations of these strategies
- Airport network assessment
- Selection of representative airport network (North of
Spain; Ireland, Scotland, Wales; French Polynesia; ')
- Analysis of the situation, configuration, traffic,
capacity and demand of each airport
- Analysis of proposed strategies and assessment of effects

Possibility of developing a software solution to assess these or
some of these strategies.

 
Overview (resum en anglès):
The objective of this project is to analyze the capacity of the airport system and how its limits are being assimilated as a direct consequence of the continuous increase in demand.

This analysis will address the main determinants of airport capacity, as well as different theoretical proposals to address the effects of airport system saturations in order to find viable solutions to improve both the capacity and efficiency of some airports, enhancing the passenger experience and the business performance of airlines.

Finally, the case of the Josep Tarradellas Barcelona - El Prat airport will be studied and the feasibility of implementing some of the ideas proposed in this paper will be analyzed.

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