27th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 19 - 24 September 2010, Nice, France
Paper ICAS 2010-11.9.1

A COMPLEX SYSTEMS APPROACH TO ASSESSMENT OF AIRPORT FLEXIBILITY, PREDICTABILITY, AND EFFICIENCY

F. Vormer, A. Marsden, V. Duong
EUROCONTROL Experimental Centre, France

Keywords: complex systems, airport, flexibility, predictability, efficiency

This paper studies airport performance (in terms of the key performance areas flexibility and predictability) and how performance can be quantified for the airport system as a whole. In the paper the airport is modeled as a complex system. Model-based simulations are carried out to assess airport performance.

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