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A Queuing Model of the Airport Departure Process Open
This paper presents an analytical model of the aircraft departure process at an airport. The modeling procedure includes the estimation of unimpeded taxi-out time distributions and the development of a queuing model of the departure runway…
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Queue-Based Modeling of the Aircraft Arrival Process at a Single Airport Open
This paper proposes data-driven queuing models and solutions to reduce arrival time delays originating from aircraft arrival processing bottlenecks at Tokyo International Airport. A data-driven analysis was conducted using two years of rad…
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Tackling Uncertainty for the Development of Efficient Decision Support System in Air Traffic Management Open
Airport capacity has become a constraint in the air transportation networks, due to the growth of air traffic demand and the lack of resources able to accommodate this demand. This paper presents the algorithmic implementations of a decisi…
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Coordination of scheduling decisions in the management of airport airspace and taxiway operations Open
This paper addresses the real-time problem of coordinating aircraft ground and air operations in an airport area. At a congested airport, airborne decisions are related to take-off and landing operations, while ground (taxiway) decisions c…
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Analytical Method for Calculating Sustainable Airport Capacity Open
Capacity is the attitude of an airport to manage a number of operations in a given time interval within a fixed maximum delay (and under given safety conditions). Capacity studies are commonly carried out on five levels of analysis accordi…
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Evaluating the impact of new aircraft separation minima on available airspace capacity and arrival time delay Open
Although the application of new, reduced aircraft separation minima can directly increase runway throughput, the impact thereof on the traffic flow of aircraft arriving at the destination airport has not been discussed yet. This paper prop…
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A Cooperative Co-Evolutionary Optimisation Model for Best-Fit Aircraft Sequence and Feasible Runway Configuration in a Multi-Runway Airport Open
A careful arrival and departure sequencing of aircraft can reduce the inter-arrival/departure time, thereby opening up opportunities for new landing and/or take-off slots, which may increase the runway throughput. This sequence when servic…
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Statistical Models of Runway Incursions Based on Runway Intersections and Taxiways Open
According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the number of runway incursions are rising. The configuration of runways and taxiways at airports has been identified by the FAA as possibly being related to the number of incursions.…
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Bayesian Network for Managing Runway Overruns in Aviation Safety Open
Runway excursions at landing constitute a major threat to aviation safety. Among them, runway overruns, defined as those occurrences when an aircraft departs the end of a runway, are the most frequent events. Although their occurrence rate…
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Analyzing, modeling, and assessing the performances of land use by airports Open
The air transport system consists of airports, airlines, and air traffic control (ATC). Airports are considered the system infrastructure occupying a certain area of land. This can be roughly divided into (i) the airside area containing ru…
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The impact of heterogeneous arrival and departure rates of flights on runway configuration optimization Open
The rapid growth of the airline industry has caused an enormous demand in the context of air transport and air traffic congestion in several hub airports. In order to alleviate this situation and resolve the imbalance between the arrival a…
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Data-Driven Simulation for Evaluating the Impact of Lower Arrival Aircraft Separation on Available Airspace and Runway Capacity at Tokyo International Airport Open
Although the application of new wake turbulence categories, the so-called “RECAT (wake turbulence category re-categorization)”, will realize lower aircraft separation minima and directly increase runway throughput, the impacts of increasin…
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Research on FOD Detection System of Airport Runway Based on Artificial Intelligence Open
With the rapid development of the global aviation industry, the number and scale of construction of civil airports around the world are increasing. In this context, the difficulty of aviation safety assurance work has also increased. Forei…
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Deep4Air: A Novel Deep Learning Framework for Airport Airside Surveillance Open
An airport runway and taxiway (airside) area is a highly dynamic and complex environment featuring interactions between different types of vehicles (speed and dimension), under varying visibility and traffic conditions. Airport ground move…
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Runway Scheduling for Charlotte Douglas International Airport Open
This paper describes the runway scheduler that was used in the 2014 SARDA human-in-the-loop simulations for CLT. The algorithm considers multiple runways and computes optimal runway times for departures and arrivals. In this paper, we plan…
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An Airport Knowledge-Based Method for Accurate Change Analysis of Airport Runways in VHR Remote Sensing Images Open
Due to the complexity of airport background and runway structure, the performances of most runway extraction methods are limited. Furthermore, at present, the military fields attach greater importance to semantic changes of some objects in…
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Evaluation of Operational Risk Factors at Runway High Speed Exits Open
Increasing demand in aviation sector has increased the need for capacity improvements at airport. However, due to several constraints such as environmental, land acquisition etc. expansion of airports and addition of new runways to increas…
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PROBABILISTIC MODEL FOR AIRPORT RUNWAY SAFETY AREAS Open
The Laboratory of Aviation Safety and Security at CTU in Prague has recently started a project aimed at runway protection...
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Rule Design for Interpretable En Route Arrival Management via Runway-Flow and Inter-Aircraft Control Open
There are ongoing research efforts to implement En route arrival manager (AMAN), which decides arrival runways and controls cruise speed in en route airspace. Air traffic control operations that regulate arrival air traffic flows from en r…
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An Innovation of the Markov Probability Model for Predicting the Remaining Service Life of Civil Airport Rigid Pavements Open
In view of the time series update of airport runway health status detection data, the Markov chain of stochastic process theory was adopted. Considering the influence of aircraft traffic load, age, and pavement structure surface-layer thic…
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Predicting Airplane Go-Arounds Using Machine Learning and Open-Source Data Open
Go-arounds (GAs) are standard air traffic control procedures during which aircraft approach a runway but do not land. The incidence of a GA can subsequently affect the workload of flight crews and air traffic controllers, and might impact …
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Estimating Airport Operations at General Aviation Airports Using the FAA NPIAS Airport Categories Open
The number of annual aircraft operations (take-offs and landings) is a significant concern to both airport owners and operators and to governmental agencies because operations data are one of the most important criteria used for determinin…
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Airside Capacity Analysis and Evaluation of Istanbul Ataturk Airport Using Fast-Time Simulations Open
The roleof air transport in transportation system is increasing every year. However,there can be difficulties to meet this increase. Therefore, efforts to resolvethe problems in air transport become important. Delays and congestions are se…
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Integrated Optimization of Terminal Manoeuvring Area and Airport Open
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Optimization of Airport Surface Traffic: A Case-study of Incheon International Airport Open
This study aims to develop a controllers decision support tool for departure and surface management of ICN. Airport surface traffic optimization for Incheon International Airport (ICN) in South Korea was studied based on the operational ch…
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Assessment of Wind Shear Severity in Airport Runway Vicinity using Interpretable TabNet approach and Doppler LiDAR Data Open
Severe wind shear events near airport runways pose serious safety risks and are a growing concern in civil aviation. Identification of severe wind shear risk factors may enhance aviation safety. Although rare, severe wind shear impacts saf…
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The importance of considering pushback time and arrivals when routing departures on the ground at airports Open
With the constant increase in air traffic, airports are facing capacity problems. Many airports are increasingly interested in utilising optimisation methods for specific airport processes. However, many such processes do happen in paralle…
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Benefit opportunities for integrated surface and airspace departure scheduling: A study of operations at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport Open
NASA is collaborating with the FAA and aviation industry to develop and demonstrate new capabilities that integrate arrival, departure, and surface air-traffic operations. The concept relies on trajectory-based departure scheduling and col…
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A collision risk assessment method for runway threshold management: A case study of Singapore Changi Airport Open
Airports are indispensable infrastructures in an air transportation system with runways being the most critical component serving departures and arrivals. With constant increase in demand of air traffic, much effort has been made to manage…
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Aircraft Route Network Optimization in Terminal Maneuvering Area Open
La congestion dans les Terminal Manoeuvring Area (TMA) des aéroports en hub est le principal problème dans le transport aérien chinois. Face au trafic extrêmement dense dans les TMAs, nous pouvons envisager d'automatiser une grande partie …