Given data

Description Value units

No. of tugs 3
No. of runways 2
no. of aircrafts (AC) departing per hour 20 per hr
Pushback time 8 mins
avg. Taxiway time considering factors of delay 10 mins
Avg. time to take off + seperation 5 mins
Fuel cost 43.45 Rs per ltr
N(aircrafts) burning fuel during pushback 20
Time for one pushback 8 mins
Fuel consumption rate 30 ltr/min
Operating cost per tug 83.333 Rs/min

Assumptions
1 Dedicated runways for take-offs and landings. Only one runway is used for departure
2 Tugs take negligible time to travel between gates
3 Aircraft dimensions for internet

Solution
1 To find time from requesting pushback to takeoff
=
Pushback time+Taxiway time+takeoff time 23 mins

2 N (tugs) Total cost

Total cost = [ N(aircrafts) burning fuel per minute during 1 208643.33333
pushback * Time for one pushback * Fuel consumption rate 2 208726.66667
* Fuel cost ] + [ No. of tugs * Operating cost per tug] 3 208810

Total operating cost Vs No. of tugs

225000

200000

175000

150000
1 2 3
N (tugs ) Tota l cost

Considering 20 flights depart per hour, and pushback time of 8 mins

No. of Aircrafts pushed back in 60 mins 7.5
No. of tugs planned 3
Total pushback capacity per hour 22.5
 Since capacity exceeds the avg. no. of aircrafts departing per hour,
3 Tugs are sufficient

3 To find the space allocation for the queue, we need to find the no. of aircrafts in the queue

Ideally, an aircraft should take 10 mins to reach the start of the runway after pushback.
Any aircraft that exceeds 10 mins to reach the runway after pushback is considered to be in queue.

The service follows an exponential distributions as given in the problem statement.

The same is applied here to find the probability of aircrafts that are waiting in queue.

Avg. No. of departures in an hour = 20

We can hence consider that the avg. no. of pushbacks that occur in an hour is also 20 aircrafts

We consider one runway for take-off, the second runway for arrivals

We have λ (No. of occurences in an unit time) 0.1667 per minute per runway
We find the probability of the planes which exceed 10 mins to reach the start of runway P(k1 < X < k2)
Formula To find the probability of X no. of aircrafts taking more than k minutes, P(x>k)

P(x>k) = e ^ (- λ*k) k (mins) P(x>k)

10 0.1889082447

No. of aircrafts in queue = P(x>k) * Total No. of aircraft 3.7782 Take 4

Length of aircraft 65 m
Wingspan of aircraft 60 m
Assume Allowance 10%

Area required for 1 aircraft 4290 sq.m

Total no. of aircrafts in queue 4

Total area of space required = Area required for 1 aircraft * 17160 sq.m
Total no. of aircrafts in queue
o be in queue.

way P(k1 < X < k2)

Lambda 0.166667 per min
Mue 6 mins

k1 k2 P(k1 < X < k2)

0 0 0
0 10 0.8110917553
10 60 0.1888627977 3.777256

3.2
0

0.0629627313