Simulation model for regional airport passenger throughputs

A model development for regional airport throughputs is rather a difficult task to perform. It concerns a dynamic and complex system implying demographic and sociological development trends as regards the catchment area of a specific regional airport. These trends are a mirror of the regional industrial development and its transportation infrastructure level. The principal aspects consist in soft variables of extremely difficult quantification and forecasting. It is about airport commercial strategies, its competitive abilities, and its specific market position. This paper describes modelling of some of these aspects.