Configuration Changes at DFW. Analysis of Existing Conditions
Abstract
As a part of the development of the Tower Flight Data Manager, it is necessary for the weather sensing group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory to develop decision support tools to give airport ground and departure controllers access to increased amounts of intuitively-displayed real-time data, with the goal of making routing decisions for aircraft more efficient. The question of configuration change (the direction, North or South at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, toward which aircraft land and take off) is an element of this process. Within a data set consisting of 20 days with 28 configuration changes, it was calculated that the decision to change the configuration of DFW cost planes waiting in queue approximately 1 minute on the ground on average, and a configuration change doubles the chance that aircraft wait more than 5 minutes in queue. Further, it can be reasonably suggested that a proportional relationship exists between queue time and time of day, as well as between queue time and overall delay.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 2010
- Accession Number
- ADA533446
Entities
People
- Joseph Zissman
Organizations
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology