Print Email Facebook Twitter IAF Assignment Optimization for Amsterdam Airport Schiphol Title IAF Assignment Optimization for Amsterdam Airport Schiphol Author Aalberse, Max (TU Delft Aerospace Engineering) Contributor Hoekstra, J.M. (mentor) Dijkstra, Ferdinand (graduation committee) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Aerospace Engineering Date 2022-06-17 Abstract During the COVID-19 pandemic people living close to the airport got accustomed to less flights, and therefore less noise disturbance. Now the amount of traffic is increasing again and so is the noise disturbance. For this research specifically the optimizing task of distributing of arriving aircraft over the IAF is addressed, as often the shortest transition routes from an IAF towards the runway go over densely populated areas, but flying via another IAF results in longer flying times and thus more CO2 emissions. A tool that is able to quantitatively make a trade-off between noise and emission is required to provide a basis for the distribution of aircraft over the IAF. In this research the feasibility and effects of using an expanded version of the aircraft landing problem to create the IAF Selection Optimization tool is studied, including the effects of different settings for the tool. As a case study Amsterdam Airport Schiphol is used, as it is a busy airport that lies close (11km) to the city center of Amsterdam. In this paper first the methodology of the IAF Selection Optimization tool is explained, and afterwards the working of the tool is discussed by running various scenarios for three different days from 2019 at AAS. For all scenarios an optimal and feasible solution was found by the tool, based on the input variables selected for each scenario. It could therefore be concluded that the IAF Selection Optimization tool provides a means to optimally distribute aircraft based over the IAF based on a quantitative trade-off. Subject Initial Approach FixIAFMixed Integer ProgrammingMIPAircraft Landing ProblemAir Traffic ControlATCAmsterdam Airport SchipholAASNoiseEmission To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:820cb36e-25e1-4a04-aa72-4f66659ac5b1 Coordinates 52.310500, 4.768300 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2022 Max Aalberse Files PDF Paper_MaxAalberse.pdf 11.41 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:820cb36e-25e1-4a04-aa72-4f66659ac5b1/datastream/OBJ/view