Abstract
- Small regional airports present an underutilized source of capacity in the national air transportation system. This study sought to determine whether a 50 percent increase in national operations could be achieved by limiting demand growth at large hub airports and instead growing traffic levels at the surrounding regional airports. This demand scenario for future air traffic in the United States was generated and used as input to a 24-hour simulation of the national airspace system. Results of the demand generation process and metrics predicting the simulation results are presented, in addition to the actual simulation results. The demand generation process showed that sufficient runway capacity exists at regional airports to offload a significant portion of traffic from hub airports. Predictive metrics forecast a large reduction of delays at most major airports when demand is shifted. The simulation results then show that offloading hub traffic can significantly reduce nationwide delays.
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The different versions of the original document can be found in:
- https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20100036643.pdf,
- https://www.aviationsystems.arc.nasa.gov/publications/2009/AF2009186.pdf,
- https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20100036643,
- https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/atcq.18.4.377,
- https://trid.trb.org/view.aspx?id=1090920,
- https://repository.exst.jaxa.jp/dspace/handle/a-is/250080,
- https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/2151737732
DOIS: 10.2514/6.2009-7052 10.2514/atcq.18.4.377
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Published on 01/01/2009
Volume 2009, 2009
DOI: 10.2514/6.2009-7052
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA license
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