A flight demonstration was conducted in August 1997 at the Hartsfield Atlanta (ATL) International Airport as part of low visibility landing and surface operations (LVLASO) research activities. This research was aimed at investigating technology to improve the safety and efficiency of aircraft movements on the surface during the operational phases of roll-out, turnoff, and taxi in any weather co...

This thesis focuses on a knowledge based approach to reduce the incursion situation in an airport. In an effort to reduce the number of runway incursions the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is actively investigating automated systems to provide the air traffic controllers with early warnings about impending incidents. The Airport Movement Area Safety System (AMASS) is the first ground sur...

The air transportation system faces a challenge in accommodating growing air traffic despite an inability to build new runways at most major airports. One approach to alleviating congestion is to find ways of using each available runway to the maximum extent possible without violating safety standards. Some decision support tools, such as the Final Approach Spacing Tool (FAST) that is a part of...

In this paper we consider the problem of scheduling aircraft (plane) landings at an airport. This problem is one of deciding a landing time for each plane such that each plane lands within a predetermined time window and separation criteria between the landing of a plane, and the landing of all successive planes, are respected. We present a mixed-integer zero-one formulation of the problem for ...

An arrival flight traffic model is presented to simulate time-varying arrivals via airport arrival fixes to runway. The underlying simulation was developed to support an analysis of airborne holding at airport meter fixes, based on changes in arrival capacity and operating procedures of the destination airport. A principal challenge was developing a modeling approach for aircraft arrivals, wher...

Operations on the airport surface include those at the gates, the ramp areas adjoining the gates, the taxiways, and the runway system. Each component could be subject to queuing delays and is also influenced by downstream factors such as the terminal airspace. On the basis of observations by Idris (4), four regions were identified on the surface where queues primarily form during the departure ...

In this paper a robust method for visual motion estimation under ego{motion is developed. The possible application of this method is image sequence analysis of road tra c or airport runway/taxiway scenes, where the camera is located in a moving vehicle. The method combines an application independent estimation of visual motion with speci c methods for instantaneous detection of the vanishing po...

This article presents a methodology to determine the risk of aircrafts lateral runway excursion during landing via mathematical modeling. In addition, is demonstrated by means detailed calculation value aircraft Airbus A310-200, in view maximum weight and appropriate range velocities according International Civil Aviation Organization specification. Obviously, demonstrates that developed math s...

An interactive microcomputer program referred to as runway exit design interactive model (REDIM) has been developed to optimally locate and design high-speed runway exits at airports. The model uses kinematic equations to characterize the aircraft landing dynamics and a polynomial-time dynamic programming algorithm to find the optimal locations of the high-speed exits. The objective of the opti...