The Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport is used as an example of how traditional approaches hardening isolated components critical infrastructure against specific threats leaves assets exposed to significant, expensive, and unacceptable levels cascading failure. Optimizing the entire airport supply chain requires development interdisciplinary approach that incorporates complexities airports...

In this communication the ground handling fleet management problem at airports is considered with the aim of improving aircraft service at arrival and departure while the operational cost of the ground service fleets is taken into account. The complexity of the considered problem, as well as, operational considerations lead to propose an on-line decentralized management structure where the crit...

The design requirements for a next-generation commercial aircraft can do much to secure its fate as a success or failure. New aircraft are often designed to meet or surpass the capabilities of an existing aircraft they are intended to replace. However, in the case of unconventional aircraft, this could lead to significant overdesign resulting in nonviable concepts. Instead, a method of analyzin...

roads, schools, fire stations, hospitals, airports, and much more— all of these different types of infrastructure are financed through municipal capital markets. These markets are vital to american households, both as savers and as consumers of the services these markets enable. objective and informed research on the ways in which municipal markets operate can help inform the decisions of both ...