Real-Life Math
As an airport manager, you are responsible for the management of
the operations center and terminal buildings. You work with approximately
50 people who handle scheduling of the facility, dispatching public information,
construction coordination and emergency planning.
As an airport manager,
1 of your major responsibilities is to calculate passenger flow forecasts.
Based upon expected loads (number of passengers expected to be on each flight),
you must estimate the number of passengers expected to be processed through
customs and immigration.
In other words, these calculations are based
on the number of people going through customs. With these numbers,
you can determine how many counter representatives to have or how many people
you schedule to work that day to avoid airport congestion.
You are
an airport manager who must calculate passenger forecasts flow per hour in
the airport. You can more easily answer this question if you create a chart
like this. Remember that you are here to find the "average passenger flow"
per hour.
| Planes | Max. Capacity per Aircraft | How Many Departures (per hour) | Max. No. Passengers Departing | Total Average Passenger Flow (per hour) |
| Boeing 747 | 431 | 2 | ?? | ?? |
| MD DC-10 | 256 | 3 | ?? | ?? |
| Boeing 767 | 210 | 3 | ?? | ?? |
The average flight capacity is 70 percent for all airplanes.
We
can break this problem down into 3 steps:
Step 1: Find the
actual flight capacity for each of the planes.
Step 2: Find
the average passenger flow.
Step 3: Find the total average
passenger flow for an hour.