Citation

Oliver RM. OR Oper. Res. Q. (1953) 1962; 13(2): 201-209.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1962, Pergamon Press)

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Abstract

This paper considers some of the statistical service, flow and delay problems which arriving aircraft encounter in the glide-path of an airport runway. Mathematical expressions for service time distributions and delays are formulated in terms of the probability distributions of spacings between discharges of the glide-path. In this paper the author also considers some numerical solutions of the average glide-path separation as a function of w̄, the average delay to arriving aircraft, x0, a minimum glide-path separation and λ the average Poisson flow rate of landing aircraft.