Airport Characterization for the Adaptation of Surface Congestion Management Approaches

摘要

Surface congestion management has received increasedattention worldwide, largely due to its potential to mitigate operational inefficiencies and environmental impact. Most priorefforts have focused on demonstrations of a proposed congestionmanagement approach at a particular airport, and not on the adaptation of a particular approach to a range of airport operating environments. This paper illustrates the challengesinvolved with adapting any class of surface congestionmanagement approaches to different airports. Data and casestudies from Boston Logan International Airport, New York’sLaGuardia Airport and Philadelphia International Airport areused to illustrate the diversity in operating environments. Thepaper then proposes techniques for characterizing airport surface operations using site surveys and operational data.Finally, it shows how these characterizations can be used for theadaptation of a given congestion management approach to different airports.