Communications - Scientific letters of the University of Zilina X:X | DOI: 10.26552/com.C.2026.052

OPERATIONAL FACTORS AND THEIR IMPACT ON SELECTION OF APPROACH SYSTEMS AT REGIONAL PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTS

Rostislav Stryk ORCID...*, Lenka Kontriková ORCID..., David Mičulka ORCID...
VSB-TUO, The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Transport, Ostrava-Poruba, Czech Republic

Regional public international airports undergo periodic modernization, including the modernization of air navigation and approach systems. In this paper is proposed a transferable decision-making framework based on the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) for selecting approach systems at airports with potential mixed civil-military traffic. Its main contribution is an AHP-based procedure adapted to the operational and technical conditions of approach-system modernization. The procedure is demonstrated through a case study of Ostrava/Mosnov International Airport, assessing selected alternatives and their operational impacts on long-term airport development in the context of possible future mixed civil–military operations and national security interests.

Keywords: approach systems, AHP method, VORTAC, GBAS, regional airport, mixed civil-military operations, LKMT airport
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This work was supported by the research grant SP2025/065 Research, Development, and Innovation in Transportation and Logistics 2025.

Conflicts of interest:

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Received: May 19, 2026; Accepted: September 14, 2026; Prepublished online: September 14, 2026 

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