Future Airport Concept (Increasing the Airport Capacity) 4th EUROCONTROL Innovative Research Workshop Presentation Martin Matas - PhD student Supervisors: Antonin Kazda - University of Žilina - Slovakia Ivan Lavallée - École Pratique des Hautes Études - France Marc Brochard - EEC - France 1
Program of presentation General problematic State of the art Innovative ideas Problem refinement and methodology Future work 2
Rational What is the general problematic? Air traffic will double by 2020 Airports would become the bottleneck Major airports approaching their ultimate capacity Short term solutions don't solve long term problems Airports will not be able to cope with the future demand if no radical change is made New concept is needed 3
State of the Art What has been done and/or is underway? Can current approach (Hub & Spoke, ) solve future demands? Mainly local solutions e.g.: AMAN, DMAN, Wake Vortex, Parallel Runways Approaches, A-SMGCS, Significant increase in Airport Capacity requires radical change such as a whole new concept for airport operations 4
Generating New Ideas What could be done? Turning runway Multi-level runway Airside-Landside separation (ASLS) 5
Turning Runway Capacity gain through runway throughput increase Turning runway allowing faster runway vacation Not radical increase of the capacity Focusing only on runway capacity 6
Multilevel Runway Runway build over runway, taxiway or apron Add new runway without additional land required Hardly constructible Expensive Safe? 7
Looking for Global Solution Previous two ideas - only local solutions Future traffic would require more global solution 8
AirSide-LandSide Separation (ASLS) This concept is based on physical separation of the Air-side from the Land-side by placing the Land-side to the city and connecting it to the airside out of the city with the high speed train. Current airport paradigm Landside terminal in the city High Speed Train Runways far from the city Future airport paradigm 9
AirSide-LandSide Separation (ASLS) Several air-sides around the city could be integrated with one land-side terminal in the city More landsides in distant cities can share the same airside Direction: North America Bruxelles Paris Direction: South America, Spain Direction: Africa 10
AirSide-LandSide Separation (ASLS) Hypothesis: Possible radical capacity increase Major Issues Travel time, PAX Flow Airline Operations (Fleet Management, Maintenance) Security Other Issues Efficiency Environment Infrastructure.. 11
Problem Refinement What to do? The basic problem is significant increase in capacity, but: There is no formal global capacity definition It should be global and not local approach - need a holistic view of airport network Proposing a global capacity definition Understanding elements of throughputs Start with PAX flows. 12
Deeper Investigation and Abstraction How to do it? Identifying elements, processes, factors and variables related to the flow of passengers Abstraction Modeling 13
Baggage transport from aircraft to claim area Unloading baggage from aircraft Aircraft parking Taxiing Baggage claim waiting for baggage Passenger transport to claim area Passport control passport queue Disembarking waiting in taxi queue (parallel RWY) Car/Taxi Car/Taxi Origin waiting for train/bus Train/Bus Destination waiting for train/bus Train/Bus Air passenger door-to-door scheme Transit passenger handling Landing Flying Take off waiting take off queue Taxiing Aircraft Push-Back waiting for push back clearance waiting in check-in queue Check-in shop, rest.. waiting in security 1 queue Baggage weigh in Security check 1 Baggage screening and sorting Passport control shop, rest.. wait until gate opens Gate ticketing security 2 queue Transit baggage handling Security check 2 boarding Loading baggage to aircraft 14
Variables to Study Passenger throughput Relative time of the passenger in travel process (being served, queuing, walking) Utilization of the Processors (e.g.: check-in, runways..) 15
Simplified Model of Airport System C E C Ch2 C S2 C G2 C R2 End Egress * Check in Security Gate runway Begin Access Check in Security Gate runway C A Airspace C Ch1 C S1 C G1 C R1 C AS Global Capacity = Π( C A, C Ch1, C S1, C G1, C R1, C AS, C Ch2, C S2, C G2, C R2, C E ) Local Capacity = #Pax/Time 16
Simplified Model of Airport System Elements Static parameters Dynamic parameters Relations and dependencies (rules?) flow G 1 flow 2 E 1 E 2 λ µ 1 µ 2 Average waiting time: W s 2 σ + t = 2 t 2 λ 2µ ( µ λ) Cumulative number of passengers (%) Passenger-arrival pattern: Long-haul Short-haul Arrival Time at Check-in Prior to STD (min.) 17
Conclusion Airports would not be able to handle future traffic There exist mainly local solutions but future traffic would require global approach New concept is needed Research on Airside-Landside separation concept Modeling of throughput 18
Future Plan Modeling airport throughput Assessing capacity baseline Assessing benefits of Airside-Landside Separation concept 19
Future Airport Concept Thank you for your attention Your questions are welcome! martin.matas@eurocontrol.int 20