The impact of investment at an individual airport is felt through-out the National Airport System by reduction of delays at other airports in the the system. A GPSS model was constructed to simulate the propagation of delays through a nine-airport system. The model is largely based on, and calibrated to, scheduled air carrier itineraries through the system. It calculates statistics and costs for landing, takeoffl, and gate arrival delays.
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Introduction, Propagation of delay a network effect, Types of delay in an air transport system, Applications of a model that simulates the propagation of delay, Airport network flow stimulation model, Model extensions and refinements, References, Appendices
The report covers the conception, design, development, and initial implementation of an advanced simulation technique applied to a study of national a...
The Airport Network Flow Simulator is a FORTRAN IV simulation of the flow of air traffic in the nation's 600 commercial airports. It calculates for an...
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