Potential of runway capacity enhancements without building a new runway

Abstract

Runway expansion planning is mainly based on specific airport studies, complicating the transfer of results to another airport. Thus a normalized airport is introduced, including a set of technologies/procedures, to investigate possibilities to gain runway capacity. The advantage of this approach is the comparability of different enhancements and understanding their effectiveness under different situations. So before establishing a new runway the current runway structure can be used more efficiently, leading to optimal solutions for individual constraints. This is shown for a set of operational enhancements like runway usage strategy or sequencing, studied under different traffic mixes as well as arrival-departure ratios. Hereby the main focus of this paper is set to dependent parallel runway configurations.