Air traffic operations in a Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON), the airspace surrounding a busy commercial airport, are quite dynamic. As arrival flights approach their landing runways, air traffic controllers apply speed, altitude, and heading directives to effect safe and orderly merging of converging air traffic flows. In some simulation models involving air traffic movement, a simplif...

Due to the upward trend in aviation industry, existing approaches for air traffic control need be improved achieve efficient schedules. This paper deals with aircraft landing problem, which consists of determining a time each within radar range an airport and allocating it runway. We propose exact solution approach that involves mixed-integer linear programming. The objective is hereby minimize...

Aircraft precision approach guidance systems require accurate positioning relative to the runway with a high level of integrity. Most precision approach guidance systems in use today require ground-based electronic navigation components with at least one installation at each airport, and in many cases multiple installations to service approaches to all qualifying runway ends. A terrain-referenc...

With the development of modern military ship equipment, airspace operation environment shipboard aircraft is becoming increasingly complex. The objective and accurate evaluation ship-terminal capacity basis air traffic flow management for aircraft, it also premise improving efficiency resources. First all, this paper divides terminal areas realizes route network planning arrival departure aircr...

The MIT Faculty has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters. Use of probabilistic techniques has been demonstrated to learn air data parameters from surface pressure measurements. Integration of numerical models with wind tunnel data and sequential experiment design of wind tunnel runs has been demonstrated in the calibration of a flush ...

We present the application of dynamic programming to a combinatorial optimization problem to achieve proper arrival runway spacing, which appears in the process of assigning speed during the transition to approach and approach phases of flight. We apply the algorithm to data from a fast-time simulation developed under NASA’s Advanced Air Transportation Technologies Project for investigating new...

The aim of this study was to compare the plantar pressures and forces recorded from both feet of two groups of javelin throwers of different performance levels, in order to investigate differences between skill levels. The study was carried out using an EMED insole system on a Tartan javelin runway at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. Most of the differences (at p < .01) between the two gro...

The undesirable prospect of increasing congestion un the nation'sairways has caused attention to be focused more and more on terminalareas. Two distinct efforts to improve traffic flow have been studiedelsewhere. One, by means of careful control of aircraft separationalong flight paths leading to the terminal, runways attempts to reduceflow variability, while the other attem...

This paper assesses the depart and approach operations of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) in one of the most challenging scenarios: when flying under Visual Flight Rules (VFR). Inspired by some existing procedures for (manned) general aviation, some automatic and predefined procedures for UAS are proposed. Hence, standardized paths to specific waypoints close to the airport are defined for depa...