La ampliación del aeropuerto de Barcelona. Análisis de requerimientos y potencialidades.

This project proposes possible solutions to be adopted at the Josep Tarradellas Barcelona ¿ El Prat airport with the purpose of trying to solve the problem that has been known for some time. The main objective of this work is to carry out a data study to find out the infrastructure state of the Catalan airport in terms of capacity. The methodology that has been used in this study approach contains two different sections: Firstly, there has been scientific research in order to gain the theoretical knowledge regarding the topic. Therefore, the data have been analyzed using R Studio and Microsoft Excel. Following these steps, it has been possible to carry out a complete capacity study, thus obtaining visual, quantitative and empirical results. These steps will allow to draw several conclusions validating whether the main problem at Barcelona airport is capacity. The main question is if the extension of the Josep Tarradellas airport is necessary. If that is the case, is the capacity the source of the problem? These issues, among others, arise in the development of this project and will be the ones that ultimately determine whether the expansion is necessary due to delimitation of capacity. After a thorough theoretical and practical work (analyzing the results), it can be confirmed that capacity is not the reason why this infrastructure should be expanded.