Demand and Capacity Balancing Through Probabilistic Queuing Theory and Ground Holding Program for European Air Transportation Network

Authors : Emre Koyuncu, Barış Başpınar

Pages : 360-374

Doi:10.18038/aubtda.268872

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Publication Date : 2017-06-30

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :In this paper, we investigate the effect of local disturbances in European airports over the global delay characteristics of the air traffic network with and without ground holding program. First, the historical air traffic data is used for analyzing the busiest European airports. Then, network models are constructed in order to simulate balancing the demand and capacity and delay propagation across the network under disruptive events. These models, which are stochastic Queuing Network Models insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(QNM);, are used to run in different scenarios where the capacities of airports are reduced to simulate local disturbances insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(e.g. heavy rain in the airport areas, air traffic controller strikes, etc.);. The impact of a local capacity reduction in the airports to the European network are analyzed, and performances of these models, with and without ground holding implementation insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(i.e. QNM and QNM-GH);, are compared.
Keywords : Air Transportation, Air Traffic Modelling and Simulation, Demand and Capacity Balancing