Analyzing tactical control strategies for aircraft arrivals at an airport using a queuing model

Eri Itoh; M.A. Mitici

doi:10.1016/j.jairtraman.2020.101938

Analyzing tactical control strategies for aircraft arrivals at an airport using a queuing model

Eri Itoh, M.A. Mitici

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Abstract

This paper proposes to analyze control strategies for arrival air traffic at an airport using a classical queuing model. The parameters of our model are estimated by means of a data-driven analysis of two years of radar tracks and flight plans for arrival flights at Tokyo International Airport from 2016 to 2017. Our results show that increasing the capacity with one or two more aircraft in the airspace up to 60 NM around the airport significantly mitigates arrival delays, even when assuming future, increased arrival traffic volumes. The outcomes of this study provide insights into the effectiveness of arrival control strategies and are seen as a means to recommend scenarios to be further analyzed with human-in-the-loop simulations.

Original language	English
Article number	101938
Number of pages	13
Journal	Journal of Air Transport Management
Volume	89
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jairtraman.2020.101938
Publication status	Published - 2020

Keywords

Queuing theory
Data analysis
Stochastic
Extended arrival management
Air traffic management

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