Based on the trend of growing role for airbound traffic on the one hand and the growing need for efficient and economic transportation, this paper gives an intermodal approach to describe the whole transportation task ” from door to door“. To do this, the concept of the “transport chain” is introduced and formalized. On ...

In the context of the project „Effizienter Flughafen 2030“ separate, autarkic models simulating the different processes at an airport have been coupled to build an integrative over-all model. For scenario analysis and to identify the relevant model parameters for the over-all behavior it was postulated to fit input ...