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Traffic Volumes and Manoeuvring Area Capacities at European Capital City Airports
Stanislav Pavlin
Slavko Roguljić
Vedran Ivančić
Abstract
Capital city airports in the European countries realise trafficvolume of several thousands to several hundred thousandaircraft operations i. e. landings and takeoffs annually. In itsAirport Planning Manual, the International Civil Aviation Organizationrecommends that the capital city airports have atleast two runways in order to avoid complete closing down ofthe airport in cases of aircraft accidents on the runway or therunway strip, due to repair or maintenance of the runway, removalof snow, unlawful interference in civil aviation etc. Thepaper analyses the current situation in traffic and the capacitiesof the manoeuvring areas at the European capital city airports.
Keywords
airport; capital city airport; maneouvring area capacity
Hrčak ID:
102353
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Publication date:
25.9.2004.
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