Logan International Airport sound isulation program

Demonstration ofRunway Status Lights at Logan Airport

III Lincoln Laboratory has developed a prototype runway-status light system (RSLS), designed to prevent runway incursions and accidents. These status lights will tell aircraft pilots and surface-vehicle operators when runways are unsafe to enter or unsafe for departure. This status information will improve the situational awareness of pilots and vehicle operators, thereby reducing the number of...

Mit Icat Observation and Analysis of Departure Operations at Boston Logan International Airport

The Departure Planner (DP) is a concept for a decision-aiding tool that is aimed at improving the departure operations performance at major congested airports. In order to support the development of the DP tool, the flow constraints and their causalities in the departure process primarily responsible for generating inefficiencies and delaysneed to be identified. This thesis is an effort to iden...

Runway Status Light System Demonstration at Logan Airport

Performance ofthe Runway-Status Light System at Logan Airport

.. Runway incursions are a persistent problem in airport ground-movement operations. Numerous critical conflicts and several fatal accidents have occurred as a result of unauthorized or otherwise inappropriate entry of aircra& or surface vehicles onto an active runway. Many of these conflicts developed quickly, leaving little time for effective intervention by either the controller or the pilot...

Spatio-temporal Analysis of Noise Pollution near Boston Logan Airport: Who Carries the Cost?

Airports are often located near densely populated residential areas, affecting a large number of people. Thus, knowing socio-demographic characteristics of the noise-affected areas is important for the development of policies on noise control and abatement. This study proposes a new methodology that combines airport noise models with spatial statistics and geographical information systems to id...