DELAYS TO AIRCRAFT SERVICED BY THE GLIDE-PATH

Abstract

Statistical service, flow and delay problems which arriving aircraft encounter in the glidepath of an airport runway, were studied. Mathematical expressions for service time distributions and delays are formulated in terms of the probability distributions of spacings between discharges of the glide-path. Numerical solu ions are considered for the average glidepath, separation as a function of the average delay to arriving aircraft, a minimum glide-path separation and the average Poisson flow rate of landing aircraft. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 15, 1961
Accession Number
AD0269995

Entities

People

  • Robert M. Oliver

Organizations

  • University of California, Berkeley

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Flow Rate
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions

Readers

  • Calculus or Mathematical Analysis
  • Personnel Management and Statistics in the Military and Department of Defense
  • Plasma Physics.

Technology Areas

  • Space