Abstract
The objective of this paper is to compare two methods of airport capacity analysis: Static Analysis and Dynamic Analysis. For this purpose, the two methods have been evaluated in two different scenarios, the first one related to normal operations and the other to an exceptional event. In the context of the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, they can be considered as coinciding with a "Pre-Covid" and a "Covid" scenario. Currently, the calculation of airport capacity is mostly linked to static analysis, a solid historical method, based on empirical formulas dictated by the International Air Transport Association (IATA). The dynamic analysis is a state-of-the-art method that uses software packages to simulate a great variety of non-ordinary situations by incorporating a wide range of information related to the specific case study such as airport layout, entry/exit routes, etc. Nevertheless, since it does not currently have specific guidelines, is still little used. The following study evaluates the two methods, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses.
Keywords: Dynamic analysis, Static analysis, Airport capacity, Covid-19, PTV Viswalk
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