Consideration for Improving Traffic Throughput at Congested Airports through Adjustment of Aircraft Delay Behavior

Abstract

In recent years, the volume of air traffic has been increasing due to growing air travel demand. On the other hand, due to the lack of capacity of airports and air routes, efficient processing and smooth operation of aircraft fleets are restricted at congested airports in the air network, resulting in increased delays. This is a social loss. However, limited approaches in prior research have not always been successful in practice. Therefore, improving the performance of the entire aviation network is a social issue.

In this research, I focused on using the behavior actions of an aircraft group that repeated a series of arrivals, stays, and departures, with the aim of improving throughput by adjusting behavior actions. The local ground taxing was compared with the overall delay in the example, and it was confirmed that adjusting the delay itself was effective as a concrete measure for improving throughput in the operations. I also confirmed the balance of throughput and delay respectively in the turnaround.