This paper we describe how we use meteorological measurements and forecasts to model the impact of ceiling, visibility and surface winds on airport capacity. These impacts can be modeled both as deterministic influences on airport capacity and stochastic forecasted airport capacities. These impacts can be used, along with en route airspace impact models, in traffic flow management solutions. Ou...

2237 Educational institutions commonly place limits on the number of students in any particular class. These class-size limits create an instance of the multi-unit assignment problem: if it is not possible for all students to take their most desired schedule of courses, then how should seats in courses be allocated? Other examples of multi-unit assignment problems include the assignment of task...

Accurate taxi time prediction is required for enabling efficient runway scheduling that can increase runway throughput and reduce taxi times and fuel consumptions on the airport surface. Currently NASA and American Airlines are jointly developing a decision-support tool called Spot and Runway Departure Advisor (SARDA) that assists airport ramp controllers to make gate pushback decisions and imp...

Airport gate assignment is a critical issue for the operation management of an airport. Airport gate assignment is to assign flights to gates according to their real-time arrival time and departure time, such that each flight is assigned to exactly one gate, and there is no conflict between two consecutive flights assigned to the same gate. We formulate the airport gate assignment as a stochast...

With continuing security concerns for airport operations, the protection of internal operational protocols of an international airport has become more critical than ever before. Therefore, the Information Security System (ISS) was developed for Incheon International Airport which can protect the critical information related to airport operations. The developed ISS includes a document access con...

Air traffic growth and especially hubs development cause new significant congestion and ground delays on major airports. Accurate models of airport traffic prediction can provide new tools to assist ground controllers in choosing the best taxiways and the most adapted holding points for aircraft. Such tools could also be used by airport designers to evaluate possible improvements on airport con...

In the last two decades corporate social responsibility (CSR), particularly when related to environmental issues, has been discussed extensively in the business literature. However, defining and measuring CSR remains a complicated process. One of the main reasons for the problematic measurement of CSR is the absence of a common framework in which business-society relations will be included. Wit...

In March 2014, CDC identified a possible cluster of four laboratory-confirmed measles cases among passengers transiting a domestic terminal in a U.S. international airport. Through epidemiologic assessments conducted by multiple health departments and investigation of flight itineraries by CDC, all four patients were linked to the same terminal gate during a 4-hour period on January 17, 2014. P...

Airport traffic consists of aircraft performing landing, takeoff and taxi procedures. It is controlled by air traffic controller (ATC). To safely perform this task he/she uses traffic surveillance equipment and voice communication systems to issue control clearances. One of the most important indicators of this process efficiency is practical airport capacity, which refers to the number of airc...

Airport gate assignment is to appoint a gate for the arrival or leave flight and to ensure that the flight is on schedule. Assigning the airport gate with high efficiency is a key task among the airport ground busywork. As the core of airport operation, aircraft gate assignment is known as a kind of complicated combinatorial optimization problem. This paper proposed robust assignment model to m...