The Surface Management System (SMS) is a decision support tool that helps tower traffic coordinators and Ground/Local controllers manage and control airport surface traffic in order to increase capacity, efficiency, and flexibility. SMS provides common situation awareness to personnel at various air traffic control facilities such as air traffic control towers (ATCTs), airline ramp towers, the ...

This investigation has been carried out partly under a contract awarded by the European Commission, contract number TR 1036 (TR), and partly as a part of NLR's basic research programme, Working Plan number 2.1.M.3c. Summary Currently, the European air transport system is experiencing an annual growth of 7%. With an increasing number of flights, airports are reaching their capacity limits and ar...

ly, the runway scheduling problem (RSP) can be thought of as a job shop scheduling problem [11] with precedence and release time constraints, where the objective is to sequence a set of jobs (aircraft) in a particular order to be processed by a processor (runway) so that some cost function is minimized. For the runway scheduling problem, one wants to find an efficient schedule for aircraft to u...

Publications in the working paper series are issued for discussion and are not considered final reports. Comments are invited. In flight scheduling, airlines usually determine optimal timing for their flights to respond to time-dependent demand and the requirement of frequency plans, of available fleets and of aircraft routings. Nevertheless, it is unavoidable that some flights cannot actually ...

this research, for the first time presents the flexible flow shop model of scheduling method for considering runway assignment and operations planning together. one of the advantages of the developed model is considering the procedures of air routes in terminal airspace and separation between consecutive aircraft which is very similar to the real world condition. there are different objective f...

of the PhD‐Thesis “Architectures for Embedded Multimodal Sensor Data Fusion Systems in the Robotics – and Airport Traffic Surveillance – Domain” submitted by Janis Schönefeld In this work an architecture for embedded multi sensor data fusion is proposed that allows the application tracking algorithms in areas requiring an efficient reliable hardware tracking solution, like airport ...

Of course, debris detection is important throughout the manoeuvring areas of an airport, not just the runway. We have chosen to concentrate on the active runway because that presents the most demanding environment, from both the physical and regulatory viewpoints. For example, there can be severe acoustic vibration and the sensor mountings must be less than ninety centimetres tall; both of whic...

This paper presents the first local search heuristic for the coupled runway sequencing (arrival & departure) and taxiway routing problems, based on the receding horizon (RH) scheme that takes into account the dynamic nature of the problem. As test case, we use Manchester Airport, the third busiest airport in the UK. From the ground movement perspective, the airport layout requires that departin...