Runway Capacity Enhancement Analysis of End-Around Taxiway at Istanbul New Airport
Abstract
This paper analyses the capacity effects of End-Around Taxiway at Istanbul New Airport which is planned to serve for 150 million passengers per year with the 6 independent runways when it is constructed completely. The new airport will be in service with its two independent and two dependent parallel runways after the first phase of the construction. The airport has also end-around taxiways to increase the runway capacity. End-around taxiways allow the aircraft continue to their taxi movements without the runway crossing. The runway crossing decreases the runway capacity since the crossing aircraft blocks the runway. The effects of runway crossing problem on the runway capacity are analysed in this paper. Istanbul New Airport first phase configuration is modelled with Simmod discrete event simulation tool in two different scenarios which are named baseline and alternative. The baseline scenario represents the new airport without end-around taxiways. The alternative scenario represents the same condition with end-around taxiways. The capacity problems of runway crossing are analysed and it is enhanced with the end-around taxiway usage. The analysis shows the runway capacities with and without runway crossing.
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