S3 - Sub-Project C: Modelling and simulation of airport passenger streams and safety concepts
Overview
Background & policy context:
Airports are complex buildings and Hubs for streams of different kinds. Their development is very dynamic and influenced by regional plans for extensions or retrofits as well as by global influences and economical and technological developments and administrative regulations. To keep up to the speed of development, it has proven successful to engage in complex analyses if the existing and planned facilities and processes so that conclusions concerning profitability and operational effectiveness as well as future prospects can be drawn. During the last years, the discrete event simulation became an effective tool for responding to these issues. It became evident that a static analysis does not live up to the complexity of the issue in contrast to a dynamic approach.
Objectives:
The objective of the project was to illustrate possibilities and measures for the optimization of the handling process on airports.
Methodology:
The basic project work included first of all the definition and specification of the terms to be used, input and result data for the simulation as well as the specification of database architectures. The basic work also included the analysis of the deployment of the dynamic simulation for the purpose of emergency simulation besides the process chain modelling in the framework of the passenger flow and terminal simulation. The dynamic simulation allows for the modelling of emergency scenarios so that the initial approach was selected, which is to deploy a constant utilization of the dynamic simulation for all modelling aspects of the project. After comprehensive analyses and discussions, the emergency scenarios were however simulated with the “fluid approach” and connected to the dynamic simulation because of project-strategic reasons.
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