COMPARISON ANALYSIS OF EMPIRICAL METHODS AND MECHANISTIC METHODS WITH FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION STANDARD (CASE STUDY: YOGYAKARTA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT)

• Main Author: Raganata, Abrar
• Format: Theses
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/68418
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Airports have a role as the gateway to the country's economy in national development, growth, and economic stability. As well as being a node in the transportation network for a meeting point of several networks and flight routes. Along with the evolution of the times, the use of air transportation has become one of the people's choices for moving between regions. Within the context of planning airport pavement thickness with standards that have been regulated by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), there has been a change in the planning approach from the empirical to the mechanistic method. Thus, it is necessary to study the effect of shifting of the empirical to the mechanistic method on the results of planning for flexible and rigid airport pavement thicknesses and calculating the Pavement Classification Number (PCN) value for airside facility pavements at Kulon Progo Airport, D.I. Yogyakarta. The calculation of the empirical method is carried out using the FAA AC 150/5320-6D method, and for the mechanistic method using the FAA AC 150/5320-6E, FAA AC 150/5320-6F, and FAA AC 150/5320-6G methods which are applied with FAARFIELD computer program. The calculation of the PCN value was carried out using the FAA AC 150/5335-5C method which was applied to the COMFAA 3.0 computer program. Comparative studies were carried out with several parameters, pavement thickness, PCN value, CDF value, and cost requirements per square meter of various scenarios. In flexible pavement, using FAA AC 150/5320-6G, the results of the thinnest pavement thickness and the lowest cost requirements are obtained, as well as the appropriate PCN and CDF values to serve aircraft movements during the design life. For rigid pavement, using FAA AC 150/5320-6E, the results obtained are the thinnest pavement thickness and the lowest cost requirements, as well as the appropriate PCN and CDF values to serve aircraft movements during the design life.