Effect of reduced minimum spacing application on capacity at Václav Havel Airport, Prague

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/NTAD61230.2023.10380145" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1109/NTAD61230.2023.10380145</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/NTAD61230.2023.10380145" target="_blank" >10.1109/NTAD61230.2023.10380145</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Effect of reduced minimum spacing application on capacity at Václav Havel Airport, Prague

Original language description

With the ever-increasing demand for air travel, airspace capacity in the vicinity and relative proximity of airports is reaching its limit. With the progressive development of new technologies and their advancement, industry has reached a situation where it is physically possible to have a large number of aircraft in the airspace. Unfortunately, under current operational conditions, reaching these theoretical capacity values is impossible as it is outside human capability to handle such extreme numbers of aircraft safely and efficiently. This limitation is mainly obvious at peak times when runway and sector capacity is at its limit. This article focuses on the capacity of Václav Havel Airport in Prague (LKPR) and the airspace in its vicinity. It presents a proposal to apply a reduced horizontal separation minimum on the final approach phase of instrument flight rules (IFR) flights down to 2.5 NM. Also, it evaluates the impact of this reduction and describes the necessary changes in airport infrastructure, legislation, and air traffic control unit procedures. The implementation proposal is based on the practices at airports abroad with a reduced 2.5NM spacing already applied. The experiments carried out showed that the idea of reduced spacing at LKPR is feasible and brings an increase airspace capacity while maintaining an adequate level of safety. Under ideal conditions and traffic composition, an increase in the number of aircraft handled by more than 10% per hour can be reached.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

21100 - Other engineering and technologies

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

2023 New Trends in Aviation Development (NTAD)

ISBN

979-8-3503-7042-3

ISSN

2836-2756

e-ISSN

2836-2764

Number of pages

5

Pages from-to

217-221

Publisher name

IEEE Czechoslovakia Section

Place of publication

Praha

Event location

Stary Smokovec

Event date

Nov 23, 2023

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

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