Development of an Airport Choice Model for General Aviation Operations

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dc.contributor.authorAshiabor, Senanu Y.en
dc.contributor.committeecochairTrani, Antoino A.en
dc.contributor.committeecochairBaik, Hojongen
dc.contributor.committeememberSwingle, Howarden
dc.contributor.committeememberTeodorovic, Dusanen
dc.contributor.departmentCivil Engineeringen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T20:42:54Zen
dc.date.adate2002-10-04en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T20:42:54Zen
dc.date.issued2002-07-17en
dc.date.rdate2003-10-04en
dc.date.sdate2002-08-07en
dc.description.abstractThe General Aviation Airport Choice model is an attempt to model General Aviation (GA) travel patterns in the US in order to provide a means of assessing the impact of General Aviation activities on the National Air Space system. The model will also serve as part of transportation planning tool to help assess the viability of deploying NASA's Small Aircraft Transportation Systems (SATS) aircraft as a competitive mode of transportation for intercity travel. The General Aviation Airport Choice model developed estimates General Aviation (GA) person-trips and number of aircraft operations given trip demand in the form of GA person trips from counties. A pseudo-gravity model is embedded in the model to distribute the inter-county person-trips to a prescribed set of airports in the US. The airport-to-airport person-trips are split into person-trips by three aircraft modes (single, multi and jet engine) using an attractiveness factor based on average occupancy, utilization and a distance distribution factor for each aircraft type and the number of aircraft based at each airport. The person-trips by aircraft type are then converted to aircraft operations using occupancy factors for each aircraft type. The final output from the model are aircraft operations trip-tables by aircraft type between the airports in the model. The GA trips are estimated in order to provide a means of assessing the impact of GA activities on the National Airspace System. The model output may be used to assess the viability of GA aircraft serving as a competitive mode of transportation for intercity travel.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Scienceen
dc.identifier.otheretd-08072002-113032en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08072002-113032/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/34398en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartThesisSenanuCorr.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectGeneral Aviationen
dc.subjectSmall Aircraft Transportation System (SATS)en
dc.subjectAirport Choiceen
dc.titleDevelopment of an Airport Choice Model for General Aviation Operationsen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineCivil Engineeringen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Scienceen

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