Recent research on fast route planning algorithms focused either on road networks or on public transportation. However, on the long run, we are interested in planning routes in a multi-modal scenario: we start by car to reach the nearest train station, ride the train to the airport, fly to an airport near our destination and finally take a taxi. In other words, we need to incorporate public tra...

During the last two decades the European airport industry is liberalised and turned to competitive market environment. This fact attracts an increasing scientific and practical interest to analysis of airport efficiency and its determinants, as well as different aspects of airport competition. This paper contains a critical review of existing researches in these two areas – airport efficiency a...

We developed a multi-agent system based on the game engine Unity 4 that allows simulating three-dimensional (3D) way-finding behavior of several hundreds of airport passengers on an average gaming PC. The agents dynamically check their surroundings for visible signs using 3D perception algorithms. Each sign is annotated with the direction of one or more exits and with metainformation such as it...

Disease spreading through human travel networks has been a topic of great interest in recent years, as witnessed during outbreaks of influenza A (H1N1) or SARS pandemics. One way to stop spreading over the airline network are travel restrictions for major airports or network hubs based on the total number of passengers of an airport. Here, we test alternative strategies using edge removal, canc...

This research introduces the concepts of metroplex and flexible flight. The dependency metric between the airports in a metroplex is illustrated. Moreover, this paper focuses on metroplex routing algorithm. The authors establish a network model and develop the routing algorithm for flexible flights which fly from their original airports to destination metroplexes based on the model. The routing...

The economic situation in the air transportation industry claims for new business models supported by accurate management processes, which need constant feedback of the real status of the environment. The objective of this work is to achieve an updated/real decision support systems (DSS) to allocate resources in an airport even when disturbances occur by combining artificial intelligent techniq...

this research, for the first time presents the flexible flow shop model of scheduling method for considering runway assignment and operations planning together. one of the advantages of the developed model is considering the procedures of air routes in terminal airspace and separation between consecutive aircraft which is very similar to the real world condition. there are different objective f...

In the simple version of the model presented in “Urban Structure and Growth”, we made assumptions designed to ensure that cities would perfectly specialize in terms of the industries producing in them. This assumption was for the purposes of simplicity, but also served to capture the idea that there are substantial di¤erences in the industry composition across cities. Nevertheless, cities are n...

The construction of China’s management and prevention control system regarding air pollutants in airport area is great significance to improve the regional ambient quality Chinese cities. By analyzing deficiencies pollution areas China sorting out international experience control, this paper proposes standard aircraft engine emission, establish a database emission coefficients, carry technical ...

The paper presents a model, multi-agent architecture, implementation approach and software prototype of a multi-agent system for autonomous air traffic control within airport airspace capable of automatic detection of potential violations of safety policies by individual aircraft and consequent incident management. It features a model facilitating practical implementation of the concepts of ope...