With the steady increase in air traffic, nowadays most of the major hub airports experience severe traffic congestion during certain portions of the day. The main limitation at the moment is found...Show moreWith the steady increase in air traffic, nowadays most of the major hub airports experience severe traffic congestion during certain portions of the day. The main limitation at the moment is found to be the amount of landing aircraft an airport can accommodate during a period of time. A specific runway capacity constraint is the required minimum wake turbulence separation distance between consecutive landing aircraft. Currently research is being done to determine safe reduced wake vortex separation constraints that dynamically alter with the occurring local weather type. This document describes the work undertaken in the final part of the author’s studies at the mathematics department of the Universiteit Leiden, carried out at the Nationaal Lucht- en Ruimtevaartlaboratorium (NLR). The objective was to develop an airport runway capacity model capable of investigating the direct benefits in the application of weather dependent reduced distance separation requirements. The effort resulted in a further development and implementation of existing analytical runway capacity modelsShow less
