1. It is expected that the air traffic in Europe will double or triple in next 20 years. There are already many airports which have now serious problem with the capacity. Often there is not enough space to build new runways, there are traffic jams on taxiways and aprons, terminals are lacking of space, parking place is insufficient… If there is not a serious solution found, the current capacity will be saturated and the traffic grow will be inhibited. Problem statement: Goal: Propose a future airport concept, that will increase airports’ capacity at least two or three times. Initial concepts: Breaking the constraints between the terminal and the runways Main idea is to build the landside terminal in the city and to build new airport far from the city while connecting them with High Speed Train. ----------------- High Speed Train ------------- Current airport paradigm Future airport paradigm Finding a completely different approach to the air traffic flow at an airport There are many capacity constraints to be improved and the new concept shall solve them as a one process. The capacity of an airport can be increased by speeding up the flow in each particular constraining object. Average airliner can depart or land in 50 or 60 seconds…some of them with the same type of aircraft can do it within 30-40 seconds.. Many airlines have average turnaround time at about one hour. Some of them can make their turnaround within 15-20 minutes.. For quicker vacating the runway there might be a kind of turning runway or taxiway, which will enable the aircraft safely turn off from the landing direction at higher speeds while other aircraft would already start the take off run. The idea is optimally redesign the traditional shape of a runway Multilevel runway, taxiway and apron system Many of current airport can not build another runway next to the others because of airport border with the city. Can you imagine that there is a another level of runway built over the other one or crossing the other one? London Heathrow Airport Any other concept ? The future concept – an unconstrained vision which is strong enough to survive in the limiting environment of current law, rules, procedures, finance and traditional way of thinking. “What Would You Do To Increase Capacity?” University of Zilina, Slovak Republic & Eurocontrol Experimental Centre, France Martin Matas Building a new runway over the other ones would break current space constraint on many of the busy airports. This idea also motivates the existence of multilevel taxiway and apron system with multilevel terminal and therefore it leads to direct increase of capacity of the whole airport. There are many configurations available. The upper runway doesn’t need to be right over the other one. It may stand nearby enabling aircraft taxiing to the lower runway, it can cross the lower runway in the middle or it can stand completely apart from any runway just for the reason of the lack of the space. Airport with two level runway and apron system Traffic constraining objects. Turning Runway - Runway shaped to a curve