Speaker Biograghy: Masahiro has been with NAA for more than 10 years, and has extensive knowledge of civil engineering including various fields of airside engineering, such as airport planning, design, construction and operations. Recently he has played a key role at the airport's new masterplan, as well as more detailed airside infrastructure planning. He has been a member of ICAO's aerodrome design working group for eight years; the group aims to study and update Annex 14.


Day 3 - 17 March
Session: Increasing Airport Capacity

10:20 - 10:45 - Capacity improvement plan by restructuring RETs at NRT's main runway
Synopsis: Tokyo's Narita International Airport (NRT) is in the process of making new masterplan for the next 20-30 years. Ahead of this, NAA is going forward with a short-term plan to improve the hourly capacity of the existing two runway systems by restructuring rapid exit taxiways (RETs). For this short-term runway capacity improvement, NAA has conducted a planning process with various case studies by utilising computer simulation of runway/RETs to analyse runway occupancy time, together with coordination with ATC and NRT-based pilots.

Audience will learn:

• Capacity improvement
• Improve hourly capacity
• Computer simulation of runway/RETs
• Coordination with ATC and pilots