Determining the Impact of Runway Configuration on an Airport Taxiing Process with Developing Airport Categorizing Method

Abstract

Flight surface movement is an important element in schedule block-time because every minute flight spends on ground adds cost to the airline. Study aims to determine how Taxi-Out, Taxi-In time vary with runway configuration. We consider runway type and length for analysis. In literature, researchers have selected airports randomly and have failed to find generalized results, caused less flexibility on practical applicability. After thorough literature review, we developed airport categorization method which starts from runway configurations. We analyzed one-year data belongs to two seasons and six operation days of five North American airports. Sample size is one thousand flights per airport per month per operation day. Altogether, 144,000 flights were analyzed with two sets of hypotheses using nonparametric method Kruskal-Wallis test. We found impact on taxiing process varies with runway configuration significantly. These findings will open a new path to develop one model to calculate taxiing time at any airport.