The purpose of the research discussed in this thesis was to assess the effects of considering airline preferences in runway operations scheduling. This was motivated by the congestion and delays that regularly occur in the air traffic system. Delays cause both cost and inconvenience to airlines and their passengers. Airborne delays increase fuel cost. Delays can cause infeasibility to crew and ...

This paper discusses the use of an artificial intelligent paradigm consisting of three intelligent autonomous agents whose purpose is to monitor the flight crew and the aircraft. Two of these agents will monitor the path of the aircraft, one armed with prior knowledge of how planes tend to land at a particular airport, the other with the ability to extrapolate forward from the plane’s current p...

In the ground sealed station crew, during 8 months international experiment SIRIUS 20/21 simulating an interplanetary flight, electrically induced phosphene (EIP) thresholds, which reflected electrical sensitivity (ES) of retina, and optic nerve. ES&L was assessed using “ESOM” device (“Neuron”, Ufa, Russia) once a month, twice day (morning/evening), under mesopic conditions. An increase in ...

Air traffic management is a complex system that includes aircrafts, crew, air traffic controllers, automation, traffic rules and climatic conditions that can affect in decision making during the different flight phases (Callantine, 2004). The human factor is the most relevant aspect in this management process, involving controllers working under severe stress and an increasing flow of aircrafts...

Within the airline industry’s complex operational environment, any disturbance to normal operations has dramatic impact, and usually imposes high additional costs. Because of irregular events during dayto-day operations, airline crew schedules can rarely be operated as planned. When disruptions occur, crew schedules are affected due to the resulting infeasible flight schedule and improper assig...

The developments in aircraft technologies both our country and around the world cause a serious increase fleets ticket sales, as well number of airline companies, their employees passengers. These aviation industry necessitate flight safety highlight importance human factor (flight crew) by reducing causality technical factors ensuring safety. Studies within this scope show that main causal (65...

Airline crew pairing problems involve assigning the required crew members to each flight segment in a given time period, while complying with a variety of work regulations and collective agreements. Traditional researches formulate the pairing problems as integer programming problems, and use deterministic approaches to optimize the solutions. Such these approaches usually suffer from some crit...

This paper tackles a generalization of the weight constrained shortest path problem in a directed network (WCSPP) in which replenishment arcs, that reset the accumulated weight along the path to zero, appear in the network. Such situations arise, for example, in airline crew pairing applications, where the weight represents duty hours, and replenishment arcs represent crew overnight rests, and ...

The present research examines operational performance and verbal communication in airline flight crews under reduced crew operations (RCO). Eighteen two-pilot crews flew six scenarios under three conditions; one condition involved current-day operations while two involved RCO. In RCO flights, the Captain initially operated the simulated aircraft alone but could request remote crewmember support...