Transportation Research Part B Methodological

Efficiently allocating resources to enable flights to land and take-off at an airport is a heavily constrained problem. Airlines request to use slots , where permission is granted to use airport infrastructure, which are allocated within the limits of the capacity of an airport. As demand for slots often significantly exceeds supply, this can lead to airlines being allocated undesirable slots tha…

• Developed a 3D fundamental diagram to analyse the efficiency of airport surface operations. • First causal modelling framework to understand how technology drives airport surface congestion. • Developed two novel metrics to characterize airport surface operational efficiency. • Validate approach using a unique day-to-day operation data of five airports. • Results are relevant in airport benchma…