Tailored SID & Profile Allocation for Amsterdam Airport Schiphol

Currently, only one Standard Instrument Departure (SID) track and one flight procedure is used per runway departure fix combination. In contrast to tailored arrivals, the potential benefit of tailored departures has been left relatively undiscovered. The research objective is to quantify the potential benefit of tailored SID-s and profile...

Inclusion of noise-related constraints in departure procedure optimization

The ever-increasing use of aircraft, together with the on-going urbanization causes increasing noise nuisance due to aviation. This is attenuated by the positioning of airports close to densely populated areas. For this reason the majority of the large airports in the world indicate that noise is one of the limiting factors in the expansion of...

Performance Impact of Improved Departure Time Prediction Relative to Sector Demand & Arrival Time Predictability

This thesis deals with traffic forecasts of Airspace Users for Air Navigation Service Providers. Currently there is a high amount of uncertainty in the traffic forecast. Air Traffic Flow Managers anticipate for unforeseen traffic by increasing the forecasted maximum capacity threshold by more than 10%. The European ATM research program SESAR...

Travel Time Reliability and Quality Assessment of a Route Set through Route Aggregation

Conventional travel time reliability assessment focuses either on reliability on route level or the determination of the valuation of reliability in route choice. However, a connection between origin and destination usually consists of multiple routes, thereby providing the option to choose. This study assesses the reliability and quality of the...

Rolling horizon predictions of bus trajectories

Bus travel times are subject to inherent and recurrent uncertainties. A real-time prediction scheme regarding how the transit system evolves will potentially facilitate more adaptive operations as well as more adaptive passengers’ decisions. This scheme should be tractable, sufficiently fast and reliable to be used in real time applications. For...

Now Boarding for 2025: Groups in Control

This master thesis considers the queuing issues at the KLM Departures area at Amsterdam Schiphol airport in order to improve passenger comfort and journey efficiency. The Author puts forward that not resource capacity, but rather passenger flow area use can often be considered the cause of queue forming and over-crowding. Also, that in...

Driver Steering Support Interfaces Near the Vehicle’s Handling Limits

The goal of this thesis is to propose steering support systems that can reduce the driver’s control effort, mental load and promote safety. The driver dictates the vehicle’s motion and the support should centralize him/her in the control loop; thus our design philosophy is to increase driver’s responsibility and support him/her in the sense of...

Design and evaluation of a simulation environment for evaluating departure scheduling algorithms

To meet traffic demand predictions, the global air traffic management (ATM) system needs to be changed. Several visions on future ATM operations exist. A commonality between the different visions is 4D Trajectory management. This function enables plan-based operation as opposed to the state-based approach of the present system. Plan-based...

A review on travel behaviour modelling in dynamic traffic simulation models for evacuations

Dynamic traffic simulation models are frequently used to support decisions when planning an evacuation. This contribution reviews the different (mathematical) model formulations underlying these traffic simulation models used in evacuation studies and the behavioural assumptions that are made. The appropriateness of these behavioural assumptions...

Innovation of the Schiphol Departure Hall Based on the Passenger Experience

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AAS) is the fifth largest airport in Europe. For all passengers departing from AAS, part of their journey takes place in the Schiphol departure hall. The assignment for this graduation project is the design of a new concept for Schiphol Departures 1 for 2020, based on the passenger‘s experience, leading to a higher...

Reliability-based Dynamic Network Design with Stochastic Networks

Transportation systems are stochastic and dynamic systems. The road capacities and the travel demand are fluctuating from time to time within a day and at the same time from day to day. For road users, the travel time and travel costs experienced over time and space are stochastic, thus desire reliable travel times and low travel costs by...

Behavioural Responses and Network Effects of Time-varying Road Pricing

Road pricing is a policy measure under consideration by many goverments and road authorities. Although objectives may be different any road pricing measure will impact the behaviour of travellers and the flow of traffic. In this research we specifically looked at the effects of road pricing measures where the prices are differentiated by time...