A Queuing Model of the Airport Departure Process
This paper presents an analytical model of the aircraft departure process at an airport. The modeling procedure includes the estimation of unimpeded taxi-out time distributions and the development of a queuing model of the departure runway system based on the transient analysis of D/E/1 queuing syst...
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| author | Balakrishnan, Hamsa Simaiakis, Ioannis |
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| description | This paper presents an analytical model of the aircraft departure process at an airport. The modeling procedure includes the estimation of unimpeded taxi-out time distributions and the development of a queuing model of the departure runway system based on the transient analysis of D/E/1 queuing systems. The parameters of the runway service process are estimated using operational data. Using the aircraft pushback schedule as input, the model predicts the expected runway schedule and takeoff times. It also estimates the expected taxi-out time, queuing delay, and its variance for each flight in addition to the congestion level of the airport, sizes of the departure runway queues, and the departure throughput. The proposed approach is illustrated using a case study based on Newark Liberty International Airport. The model is trained using data from 2011 and is subsequently used to predict taxi-out times in 2007 and 2010. The predictions are compared with actual data to demonstrate the predictive capabilities of the model. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1053592022-09-27T16:20:19Z A Queuing Model of the Airport Departure Process Balakrishnan, Hamsa Simaiakis, Ioannis Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Balakrishnan, Hamsa Simaiakis, Ioannis This paper presents an analytical model of the aircraft departure process at an airport. The modeling procedure includes the estimation of unimpeded taxi-out time distributions and the development of a queuing model of the departure runway system based on the transient analysis of D/E/1 queuing systems. The parameters of the runway service process are estimated using operational data. Using the aircraft pushback schedule as input, the model predicts the expected runway schedule and takeoff times. It also estimates the expected taxi-out time, queuing delay, and its variance for each flight in addition to the congestion level of the airport, sizes of the departure runway queues, and the departure throughput. The proposed approach is illustrated using a case study based on Newark Liberty International Airport. The model is trained using data from 2011 and is subsequently used to predict taxi-out times in 2007 and 2010. The predictions are compared with actual data to demonstrate the predictive capabilities of the model. National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Award 0931843) 2016-11-18T15:35:01Z 2016-11-18T15:35:01Z 2015-11 2013-02 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0041-1655 1526-5447 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/105359 Simaiakis, Ioannis, and Hamsa Balakrishnan. “A Queuing Model of the Airport Departure Process.” Transportation Science 50.1 (2016): 94–109. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8624-7041 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/trsc.2015.0603 Transportation Science Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) MIT web domain |
| spellingShingle | Balakrishnan, Hamsa Simaiakis, Ioannis A Queuing Model of the Airport Departure Process |
| title | A Queuing Model of the Airport Departure Process |
| title_full | A Queuing Model of the Airport Departure Process |
| title_fullStr | A Queuing Model of the Airport Departure Process |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Queuing Model of the Airport Departure Process |
| title_short | A Queuing Model of the Airport Departure Process |
| title_sort | queuing model of the airport departure process |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/105359 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8624-7041 |
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