Operations in the passenger apron at the terminal T1, of the International Airport of Mexico City (IAMC)

Augmenting airport facilities or building a new airport complex are difficult choices that need the involvement of public and private sector given the high levels of investment and complexity of the project. The cheapest way to increase the operating capacity of a system is, before any major investment, improving efficiency in resource utilization. Unlike previous studies in International Airport of Mexico City (IAMC), our approach involves using a real schedule of arrivals and departures to generate entities; the simulation model generates a specific aircraft type at a specific time with a possible earlier or later arrival time given by statistical distribution. We included the time of running in taxiways, with a specific speed. In the beginning, we respect the original gate allocation and it makes a difference between national and international flight, since the gates are different and have assigned different security rules. The purpose of this study is to analyze the behavior of the system, identify underutilized gates and propose new policies for assignment to a typical day in the passenger apron at the terminal T1 of IAMC. We choose the Simio® software to have direct visualization in 3D, real schedules also can be used to incorporate gate allocation policies in a very fast. In Mexico, there are very few airports simulations approaches, then, we intend to increase this topic using Simio® software in the IAMC.