INAIR 2015: BOOK PRESENTATION Miguel Mujica Mota Daniel Guimerans Serrano Geert Boosten AVIATION ACADEMY - MISSION The Aviation Academy was created to serve the European aviation industry. Our mission is to provide the current and next generation of professionals with the skills they need to meet the international aviation challenges of the next 10 to 15 years. Goal is to become one of the top Aviation institutions in Europe at the level of Universities of Applied Sciences AVIATION ACADEMY: MAIN THEMES Design Service Manufacturing Dismantle/Re-use Operational Readiness Safety & Human Factors Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul New repair methodologies Airport and Airspace Capacity Security & Technology Flight Operations FOCUS ON THE OPTIMAL SOLUTION Engineering BusinessOperations 4 regulations Finding the optimal mix between: -Technical solution -Operational requirements -Make money or control costs in aviation -Regulatory requirements AVIATION CHAIN APPROACH Aviation infrastucture, processes and systems linking pin between specializations Airport Airline Government Suppliers No single party delivers the entire service to a passenger or cargo carrier Mutual dependency Different business models, stakeholders and responsibilities 5 AIRPORT CONNECTING TWO DIFFERENT NETWORKS City region Network Airport Network Airline Network Airline serving the region Network = Sum of Airline/alliance Connections Network = (airline + ground traffic connections) Network = Connections to Economies worldwide Demand Supply Capacity QUESTIONS? Where to land and park all those aircraft? Do we have enough airport and air space capacity to handle all these aircraft? How to manage the future traffic flows on the ground and in the air? What is airport capacity? How to optimize airport capacity? AIRPORT CAPACITY AND THE EQUATION The SYSTEM that is required for an efficient operation of the airport and the airspace. The subsystem that reaches its limits (physical or conceptual) will determine the capacity of the aviation system. Optimizing capacity requires not only understanding behavior of each parameter but also the entire system Optimizing airport capacity is therefore not a linear but an iterative, cyclic process 8 ISNGI 2014, Vienna Airport Capacity: (Business model, infrastructure, air space, societal conditions, technology, passenger/cargo preferences) WHAT IF AIRPORT IS CONGESTED? City region Network Airport Network Airline Network Airline serving the region Network = total of Airline/alliance Connections Network = (airline + ground traffic connections) Network = Connections to Economies worldwide Demand Supply Capacity How to optimize? Does simulation help to gain insight ? MEET THE AUTHORS: MIGUEL AND DANIEL