PROBABILISTIC MODEL FOR AIRPORT RUNWAY SAFETY AREAS

Runway Scheduling for Charlotte Douglas International Airport

This paper explores a multiple runway scheduling problem and generates the schedule for arrivals, departures and crossing aircraft planning to use the runways within a given planning horizon. We present a mixed integer linear programming-based model that explicitly considers separation criteria between pairs of aircraft and also incorporates various Traffic Management Initiatives. It also inclu...

Optimal Selection of Airport Runway Configurations

We present a mixed integer programming (MIP) model to solve the problems of (i) selecting an airport’s optimal sequence of runway configurations and (ii) determining the optimal balance of arrivals and departures to be served at any moment. These problems, the runway configuration management (RCM) problem and the arrival/departure runway balancing (ADRB) problem, respectively, are of critical i...

A Review of Airport Runway Optimization

Airport Signs and Markings Recognition for Enhanced Runway Incursion Avoidance

A runway incursion is defined as any occurrence in the airport runway environment involving an aircraft, vehicle, person, or object on the ground that creates a collision hazard or results in a loss of required separation with an aircraft taking off, intending to take off, landing, or intending to land. Multiple factors could contribute to runway incursion, including pilots’ failure to accurate...

Runway Safety: Technologies for Debris Detection

Of course, debris detection is important throughout the manoeuvring areas of an airport, not just the runway. We have chosen to concentrate on the active runway because that presents the most demanding environment, from both the physical and regulatory viewpoints. For example, there can be severe acoustic vibration and the sensor mountings must be less than ninety centimetres tall; both of whic...