Airport with circular runway in India

Civil Engineering

India being the developing country with large population inbound and with large tourism network. India is expected to welcome 217 million domestic with 76 million international passengers by 2020. There is a need for crowd handling airport facility with the high efficient airport in India. The circular runway had never been implemented in India till now. This will give us the foundation for the new type of airport in India. The taxiway will be available outside but along the runway. There is going to be short landing and fast take-off. This runway offers us to counter the wind in any direction. This enables us to use natural wind pattern to our advantage. Further, this will help in saving fuels, aircraft maintenance, and repairs. The capacity will be increased suddenly. This concept will be applied on the airport with a large crowd like Indira Gandhi International Airport. This concept cannot be applied to smaller airports where the need is less. There is going to be new ATM procedures which are to follow without any discrepancies. This will have low noise impact with possibly more aircraft accommodation. The circle of the runway, whose diameter is set to 3 kilometers, is large enough to provide sufficient room for infrastructure preferably inside the circle, even for a hub airport. This makes the airport compact, while allowing current-day aircraft to use the circle without significant structural modifications.

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