Congestion Delays at Hub Airports

Details

• Corporate Creators:
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Flight Transportation Laboratory
• Corporate Contributors:
  Transportation Systems Center
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Airports
  • Hubs
  • Schedules and scheduling
  • Flight delays
  • Hub and spoke systems
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Edition:
  Final report
• Corporate Publisher:
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Description:
  RUNDEL, a deterministic model, was used to study the effects of inefficient scheduling on flight delays at hub airports. The model bases the delay calculation on published schedule data and on user-defined airport capacities. Data from the Official Airline Guide of May 1977 and May 1985 were used for the analysis. Twelve large airports were studied in the hopes of finding a correlation between airport delay due to congestion and hubs. Data for both time periods were analyzed for the 12 airports in order to find historical trends in the growth of hubbing. Among the airports studied, those that were hubs had significantly more delays due to inefficient scheduling than the non-hubs, even for an equivalent number of operations. Also, these relative inefficiencies were shown to exist from hub to hub. Delays at hubs of similar size differed by up to 200%.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  DTRS-57-86-C00007
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/43522/dot_43522_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 6.51 MB]
• Collection(s):
  Volpe Center
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:a3509296cbfce02e0209a40a894feadf9d620a4099d7ab7355df56818d333a4b