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Management Science Papers
- An Integrated Simulation and Dynamic Programming Approach for Determining Optimal Runway Exit Locations (1992)
The Federal Aviation Administration and National Aeronautics and Space Administration are
researching several problems targeted at improving airport capacity. Among the foremost of these
problems is the issue of improving the operational use of runways. The efficiency of runway usage
is dictated primarily bq the runway occupancy time (ROT) which is the time that an aircraft
spends on the runway or its vicinitq, until a new arrival or departure can be processed on this
runway. This paper considers the problem of determining the geometn and location of high
speed exits on a runway to minimize the weighted ROT of a population of aircraft under various
landing scenarios and frequencies of usage. Both the problem of designing a new runwaq and
modifying an existing one are addressed. It is shown that the continuous location problem of
siting runway turnoffs admits a natural finite set of candidate optimal locations. To characterize
problem data and determine optimal exit locations, a simulation program integrated with a polynomial-time dqnamic programming algorithm is developed. The methodology has been implemented
on a personal computer, and an example is presented to illustrate the approach.
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