CAPACITY RESEARCH OF BRNO-TURANY AIRPORT WITH RESPECT TO NEW TRENDS IN AIR TRANSPORT

摘要

The changes in air transport that have to be faced in Central Europe are mainly the steep growth of charter and low-cost traffic and new legislation requirements resulting from accession of several countries to the so-called Schengen area. International airports in this region, and especially those with regional character, are a part of European ATM system to which particular attention should be paid. The specific features include the fact that these airports are not constrained on the air side but a steep growth of charter and low-cost traffic in recent years in this region causes overloading of airport terminals. This is also underlined by new legislation requirements which have to be applied in operation and may lead to problems if not handled in time and in proper way. Another usual issue is that the link between reaching the annual capacity and the coexistence of hourly capacity is very weak. In other words, there are times of day when the traffic is very high and reaches critical hourly values for either the airside or landside (or both) - the peak hours. Nevertheless, looking at the annual operation, the airport is far from hitting the line. The peak hours simply reveal the bottlenecks of the airports.The goal of our research was to perform a landside capacity study of the Brno-Turany Airport (Czech Republic) with respect to the possible future growth of traffic and number of passengers, and thus identify the potential constraints to passenger and baggage flows. The research was conducted using fast-time simulation of passenger and baggage flows within the terminal using an off-the-shelf tool which employs real passenger behaviour model. Another aim of our research was to show the managers of regional airports that such modelling can be useful for decision making support not only at busy airports. At regional airports, significant shifts in operation can be achieved through minor modifications of either terminal layout or operational procedures, or both.