Airports under a microscope - Group 4 - 2018/2019, Semester B, Quartile 3

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Airports under a microscope

In this section, we will take a look at Dutch airports as such to find criteria of what our anti-drone system should take into account. Furthermore, we will look at the main difference between certain airports in the Netherlands to check whether these differences might lead to different solutions that might suit different kinds of airports better. As a result of that, these differences might be used as criteria for our decision model. First of all, we will be looking at some of the larger commercial airports of the Netherlands.

General description/facts of Airports in the Netherlands

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol is the largest airport of the Netherlands and was the third busiest airport of Europe in 2017. [1] Schiphol is home to Dutch airlines KLM, Martinair, Corendon, TUI fly and Transavia. The airport has 6 runways with a total length of 19467 metres. [2] In figure 1 an overview and the locations of the runways of schiphol can be observed with the names and lengths of each runway included.

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Figure 1: General overview of layout of Schiphol and overview of the runways of Schiphol. [2]


Table 1 below contains general facts of the Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, mainly of 2018.

Table 1: General facts of Amsterdam Airport Schiphol [2][3]
Passenger amount 2018 70.956.604 passengers
Amount of airplane movements (departure/arrival) in 2018 499.446 movements
Total cargo load 2018 1.716.982 tonne
Amount direct worldwide destinations 322 destinations
Area of the airport 2.787 hectares
Arrival peak hour capacity 106 movements
Departure peak hour capacity 110 movements
Amount runways 6 runways


In the table, we observe that Schiphol had a total of 499.446 movements in 2018, that would be an average of around 1.367 movements every day. Keep in mind that this is both arrivals from and departures on Schiphol and includes both passenger flights and cargo flights. Then with the six runways the airport has, this would mean that with an average of 1.367 movements every day, each runway would, on average, observe an aeroplane movement around every 6 minutes. Note that this is a calculated average, and this number of movements on each runway can be higher during peak hours.

Eindhoven Airport

  • Passenger amount 2018: 6.237.755 [4]

Rotterdam The Hague Airport

  • Passenger amount 2018: 1.908.158 [5]


Maastricht Aachen Airport

  • Passenger amount 2018: 274.986 [4]

Groningen Airport Eelde

  • Passenger amount 2018: 228.698 [4]

Differences

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References

  1. ↑ Vliegveldinfo"Grootste vliegveld Europa" Retrieved on 2019-02-20.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Royal schiphol group"Amsterdam airport schiphol airport facts" Retrieved on 2019-02-20.
  3. ↑ Royal schiphol group "Schiphol verkeer en vervoer cijfers" Retrieved on 2019-02-20.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 CBS opendata "Luchtvaart; maandcijfers Nederlandse luchthavens van nationaal belang" Retrieved on 2019-02-20.
  5. ↑ Rotterdam The Hague Airport "Rotterdam The Hague airport, overzicht verkeer en vervoer per kalenderjaar" Retrieved on 2019-02-20.
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