Modelling of Ground Handling Operations at Airport

In aviation, aircraft ground handling defines the servicing of an aircraft while it is on the ground and (usually ) parked at a terminal gate of an airport. Ground handling operations include many activities: passenger handling, ground transport, assistance in blocking the aircraft and delivery of required equipment, loading and unloading of the aircraft, including provision and operation of required e quipment, as well as transport of the cre w and passengers between the aircraft and the terminal, transport of luggage between the aircraft and the terminal, catering. This paper presents a fragment of an analysis of the elementary operations performed at the apron and presents model of ground handling at the airport and stochastic analyses. The method of solving the problem is based upon an analysis of the actual airport opera tions. During the investigation different ground handling processes schemes and elementary operations identified at the apron were analyzed. Random parameters of the duration of each action at the apron were i dentified. The f ocus was t he problem of i ncrease airport capacity for the ground airport operations. Problem of airport capacity is specifying as airside and landside. The authors present short description of method. It is present ground handling model and some of results of simulation.