Evaluation of Airport Capacity through Agent Based Simulation

Abstract

The operational capacity of an airport must be dimensioned under a long-term strategic view as its productivity is determined by available infrastructure. To predict the airport capacity and satisfy the domestic airport property, the operation procedure of airport is analyzed from the point of Multi-agent system. The proposed agent based architecture is a microscopic model of aircrafts' movement; each aircraft is represented as an agent capable of getting its routing results from instructing agent, and makes its own deconflicition decisions on the basis of a part of the observable scene local to that aircraft. An example of airport capacity evaluation is given, and the result is verified through comparison with SIMMOD. Finally, further research is applied to analysis the reason for delay.