A Minimum Capacity Optimization Scheme for Airport Terminals during Peak Periods

Abstract

Air transportation as a public transport method is preferentially considered by passengers. However, this method will not only bring a congestion problem but also affect the passenger experiences in airport terminals during peak periods. Considering the fact that the capacities of airport terminals are proportional to their building costs, this paper proposes a scheme to calculate the minimum capacity for each airport terminal. The main purpose is to avoid the saturated congestion problems and reduce the waste of transition bus resources. For each airport terminal, its capacity is closely related with its inputs and outputs. The proposed scheme proves a relational expression for each airport terminal according to its inputs and outputs. Moreover, this work formally models the limited flow structures of flight process guidance systems by using finite capacity Petri nets and then verifies the correctness of the proposed relational expression. Finally, an example is presented to illustrate the proposed scheme.