Simulation Study on Airfield System Capacity Analysis Using SIMMOD

This paper presents how airfield system capacity and delay analysis proceeds based on computational simulation. It analyzes the factors that influence airfield system. SIMMOD (FAA airport and airspace simulation model) is used to carry on the simulation which involves the influential factors to ensure high level of details and close reality in terms of air traffic control constraints and airfield operation procedures. Based on the information revealed from SIMMOD simulation, average departure delay and arrival delay are calculated so that airfield system bottleneck in heavy load can be found. The statistic analysis is done to find out quantitative relation between delay and capacity. We simulate two proposed scenarios to estimate their respective efficiencies in terms of airfield system improvement. The paper gives a modeling methodology with SIMMOD and finds out how to make the airfield system capacity evaluation through simulation.