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...

Airport departure operations constitute an important source of airline delays and passenger frustration. Excessive surface traffic is the cause of increased controller and pilot workload; It is also the source of increased emissions; It worsens traffic safety and often does not yield improved runway throughput. Acknowledging this fact, this paper explores some of the feedback mechanisms by whic...

The ground routing problem consists in scheduling the movements of aircraft on the ground between runways and parking positions while respecting operational and safety requirements in the most efficient way. We present a Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) formulation for routing aircraft along a predetermined path. This formulation is generalized to allow several possible paths. Our model takes in...

The research problem considered in this thesis was presented by NATS, who are responsible for the take-off runway scheduling at London Heathrow airport. The sequence in which aircraft take off is very important and can have a huge effect upon the throughput of the runway and the consequent delay for aircraft awaiting take-off. Sequence-dependent separations apply between aircraft at take-off, s...

The occurrence of wake can pose a threat to the flight safety aircraft and affect runway capacity airport operation efficiency. To effectively identify wake, this paper proposes novel convolutional neural network (CNN) method recognition based on improved parallel (ParNet). Depthwise separable convolution (DSC) was introduced into ParNet make model lightweight. In addition, block attention modu...

Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport, as a complex of strategic importance for the Republic Serbia, has been subject planning, study and design elaboration through several urban planning documents in different periods. Although realization basic settings development formulated 1972 1985, was accompanied by economic difficulties changes dynamics phases realization, concept this remained unchanged. Furt...

NASA Ames Research Center is developing a concept for managing flight operations on airport surfaces. The goal of the concept, named the Spot and Runway Departure Advisor (SARDA), is to reduce delays, emissions, noise, and fuel consumption. In 2010, human-inthe-loop simulations of the SARDA concept were conducted. Results showed that for the 2008 heavy traffic scenario SARDA reduced departure d...

The Surface Management System (SMS), being developed at NASA Ames Research Center in conjunction with the FAA, is a decision support tool that helps air traffic controllers and air carriers manage aircraft movements on the surfaces of busy airports. By presenting information and advisories to the Air Traffic Control Tower, Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON), En-route Center, and air carri...

Accurate prediction of real-time airport capacity, a.k.a. acceptance rates (AARs), is key to enabling efficient air traffic flow management. AARs are dependent on selected runway configurations and both affected by weather conditions. Although there have been studies tackling the or both, accuracy relatively low only single considered. This study presents a data-driven deep-learning framework f...

A new air traffic control tower research facility dedicated to countering potential air and runway traffic problems at commercial airports is advancing the stateof-the-art in aviation research at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Ames Research Center. FutureFlight Central (FFC), is a unique real-time simulator designed to safely study new technologies, airport design chan...