Simulation of Airplane Traffic at Bradley International Airport

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Simulation of Airplane Trafficat Bradley
International Airport
Jenifer Miller Simulation Modeling and
Analysis Term Project December 2000
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Objective and Scope

• Simulation model of airplane traffic at Bradley
  International Airport
• Planes only, no customer or baggage impact
• Current utilization and impact of increased
  schedule and airport remodel

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Requirements

• Airline flight schedule data
• Actual flight arrival/departure times
• Airport runway/gate capacities
• FAA procedural information
• Validation information - Taxi-in times

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Assumptions

• No flight cancellations
• One gate per airline - Capacity is number of
  actual gates at airport
• Taxi-in time not modeled - results used for model
  validation

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ProModel Elements

• Locations - 34
• Entities - 11
• Processing
• Arrivals/Arrival Cycles
• Attributes
• User Distributions

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Locations
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Processing
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User Distributions

• Used for time at gate - 1 for each type of plane
• overnight at gate
• from remote
• from arrival
• Arrival schedules
• separate for each airline based on arrivals for
  that airline
• 1 used for all airlines based on arrivals for all
  planes

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Results
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Conclusions

• Base model represents current airport operation
  reasonably well
• Doubling traffic indicates runway is limiter for
  most airlines - 2 airlines have gate limitations
  as well
• 25 increase for new gates does not significantly
  impact operation and does not require additional
  runway construction