Adopt an airport project template

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I. INTRODUCTION
During this project you will select and US airport and study ETA or ETD,
different ATFM program applied to it. First you need to form whether it is an international flight or not (check the
your group and be assigned an airport. Once you have formed a exception of Canada),
group and have adopted an airport find more about it using the
following reference [1]. the distance between the origin and the arrival airport, the
ETA, and,
II. PREPARE YOUR DATA
a number of connecting PAX (you will have to create this
Get familiar with your assigned airport; in this example, I will number, based on the type of airline).
consider BCN airport, see Figure 1.
You will need similar departure data for the airport capacity
study, see Section V.
Table 1: Schedule of arrivals at BCN between 08.00 and 9.00,
01/28/15 (non EU flights marked in bold)

Connecting
Airline Flight Number Origin ETA
passengers
IBERIA IBE0646 MAD 08:00:00 0
IBERIA IBE2712 MAD 08:00:00 5
EASYJET EZS1401 GVA 08:05:00 0
VUELING VLG1311 ALC 08:10:00 0
VUELING VLG1439 BIO 08:10:00 0
TRANSAVIA TVF3132 ORY 08:10:00 4
VUELING VLG3923 PMI 08:20:00 0
EASYJET EZY2759 MXP 08:20:00 0
Figure 1: Barcelona Airport Layout
VUELING VLG8007 ORY 08:30:00 0
SINGAPORE
SIA378 SIN 08:30:00 12
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A. Look for nominal capacity
IBERIA IBE5394 ORY 08:30:00 4
You should find this information in [1].
IBERIA IBE5630 AGP 08:30:00 2
B. Generate demand data of real traffic
IBERIA IBE0716 MAD 08:35:00 3
From the webpage of your airport, choose a day with
relatively high traffic and generate arrival and departure demand VUELING VLG1293 LCG 08:35:00 0
for a 6-hour time window. You can also study the usual demand IBERIA IBE2748 MAD 08:35:00 2
and generate yourself the demand (that is, invent it based on real
data). Properly, comment in the report the chosen solution. VUELING VLG2253 SVQ 08:35:00 0
 RYANAIR RYR6397 SVQ 08:40:00 0 Understand the effect of changing the file time of the
LUFTHANSA DLH1808 MUC 08:40:00 2 GDP and its radius of exemption (plot the division
between air and ground delay as a function of those
WIZZ AIR WZZ2375 BUD 08:40:00 0
parameters).
LUFTHANSA DLH1124 FRA 08:40:00 4
Plot the histograms of the demand before and after the
VUELING VLG7767 DME 08:45:00 0 regulation.
VUELING VLG1008 MAD 08:45:00 0
C. Conclude on this part
RYANAIR RYR6363 PMI 08:50:00 0 Conclude on the effect of the GDP, see the pdf file
VUELING VLG1572 OVD 08:55:00 0 Implementation of a ground delay program for more
information.
AIR EUROPA AEA2001 MAD 08:55:00 0
V. GHP STUDY
Following the instructions of the pdf file Ground holding
C. Look for reasonable values of capacity during regulation
problem and Airport capacity: BCN example, and using the
Based on your chosen airport look for realistic values of this same previously defined regulation, apply a GHP to your airport.
airport capacity during a regulation.
A. Starting point
III. REGULATION DEFINITION AND RBS REFERENCE SOLUTION Comment here all the choices you had to make for the GHP
Define the hypothesis of your regulation, namely: implementation (cost function, how to impose that a flight does
not arrive before its ETA, etc.).
starting time,
B. Results
end time,
The results provided here should follow the same structure
nominal (AAR) and reduced (PAAR) capacities, than the GDP ones, but you should also now have some cost
results.
size of the time slot t (it should be between 1 and 5
minutes) C. Conclude on this part
etc. Here you should conclude on this part and compare for
example with RBS results.
Apply a RBS for this regulation and compute the
corresponding delay for each flight and other interesting metrics VI. AIRPORT CAPACITY STUDY
(total delay, mean delay per flight, etc.). This will be a reference Following the instructions of the pdf file Ground holding
solution to which you will compare GDP and GHP. problem and Airport capacity: BCN example, solve the airport
capacity problem for your airport.
IV. GDP STUDY
A. Starting point
In this section, you will apply a GDP at your airport. Based on the capacity profile of your airport define a
nominal profile and a profile for the given regulation. Define
A. Starting point also the time slots, they can typically be of 15 minutes length for
You should define the file time and compute at what time the this part.
GDP is no longer needed, that is, when the foreseen demand
equals the nominal capacity and plot the aggregate demand, the B. Results
PAAR and the AAR. Give the solution in the form: what is the optimal arrival
and departure capacity configuration for each of the time slots?
B. Results and plot this solution on the capacity envelop graph.
Present the main results here, between other you should give:
Calculate how many aircraft you will have in arrival and
Compute the minimum amount of total delay needed to departure queues. Study the evolution of the queues with time,
balance the capacity and the demand. and also their final values.
Compute the list of not affected, excluded and controlled Calculate how many slots you need to add in order to
aircraft by the GDP. completely absorb the queue (for a given value of ). This will
give you an order of magnitude of the delay.
Compute the ground delay assigned to each controlled
aircraft. C. Conclude on this part
Compute the airborne/holding delay that is needed. Conclude on the effect of the parameter and find for which
value(s) of you obtain the best results.
See the differences between the optimal amount of delay
needed and the actual amount of delay assigned.
 VII. CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE WORK/IMPROVEMENT
General conclusions of your work, you can for example
compare the results of the different methods (when they are
comparable), and you can add some possible future
improvements that could be planned in your airport to improve
the obtained results.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
If needed
REFERENCES
The template will number citations consecutively within
brackets [1]. The sentence punctuation follows the bracket [2].
Refer simply to the reference number, as in [3]do not use
Ref. [3] or reference [3] except at the beginning of a
sentence: Reference [3] was the first ...
[1] FAA Airport Capacity Profiles,
www.faa.gov/airports/planning_capacity/profiles/ , accessed on May
17th, 2017