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6 At the beginning of a simulation study, analysts generally ask themselves certain questions that can help them frame the problem scope and determine analyses concepts. The types of questions that are generally asked include: • Which parts of the airfield, airspace, terminal structure, and roadways should be simulated?
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Basic Simulation Concepts for Airport Planning and Design 7 Moreover, the use of simulation tools should be integrated into a collaborative process that involves all affected stakeholders. At every step in the process, educated and collaborative decisions need to be made, starting with the level of analysis required, data availability and requirements, resource availability, simulation tool selection, calibration capabilities and requirements, design of experiments, and understanding of the limitations of the simulation tools themselves.
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8 Simulation Options for Airport Planning structurally until a specific objective is maximized. The vast majority of simulation tools simply run scenarios and environments that have been defined and developed by the simulation analyst with very limited sensitivity analyses based on specific randomized input variables.
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Basic Simulation Concepts for Airport Planning and Design 9 Simulation Calibration and Validation Before any what-if scenarios are tested and simulated, however, the baseline simulation models should be calibrated and validated to ensure that they reflect current reality, or intended reality, within reason. This can be accomplished visually for high-fidelity tools, as well as by using simulation output metrics.
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10 Simulation Options for Airport Planning responsible for managing operations, air traffic controllers, or airline representatives. If simulation models are intended to be used for future studies, periodic recalibration may also be required to keep them up-to-date and ensure that infrastructure, environmental, operational, and procedural changes are reflected.
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Basic Simulation Concepts for Airport Planning and Design 11 Care should be taken, however, to ensure the DDFS accurately reflects historic demand trends (Landrum & Brown et al., 2010)
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12 Simulation Options for Airport Planning Capacity-driven delays can be accurately predicted using higher detail simulation software. Generally, to calculate delays, a nominal or unimpeded time to complete a specific process of function is calculated, and then any additional time is measured as "delay" (TransSolutions et al., 2014)
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Basic Simulation Concepts for Airport Planning and Design 13 types of projects that airport planners typically consider for simulation studies. In addition to a thorough understanding of the simulation tools that are to be used, as well as experience in managing simulation studies, some of the basic quality assurance (QA)
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