Mumbai University > Civil Engineering > Sem 5 > Transportation Engineering 1

Marks: 4M

Year: May 2016

Factors affecting the airport operating capacity:-

Following are the various factors which affects the airport operating capacity:

• Characteristics of the aircrafts using the airports.
• Sizes and number of gates used in the apron area.
• Number and location of the taxiways, configuration and runway exits.
• Availability and structure of the air-space for the purpose of arrival and departure routes.
• Nature and existence of the navigational aids.
• Noise abatement procedure.
• Runway occupancy time for operation of arrival and departure of aircraft.
• eather conditions and wind conditions
• Techniques used by the controller to operate the runway system
• Frequency and existence of occurrence of wake vortices.
• Number of arrival with respect to the number of departure.