Surface operations at airports in the US are based on tactical operations, where departure aircraft primarily queue up and wait at the departure runways. NASA’s Spot And Runway Departure Advisor (SARDA) tool was developed to address these inefficiencies through Air Traffic Control Tower advisories. The SARDA system is being updated to include collaborative gate hold, either tactically or strate...

Due to an anticipated increase in air traffic during the next decade, air traffic control in busy airports is one of the main challenges confronting the controllers in the near future. Since the runway is often a bottleneck in an airport system, there is a great interest in optimizing the use of the runway. The most important factors in aircraft landing modeling are time and cost. For this reas...

London Heathrow Airport is a very popular and busy airport. Indeed it is one of the busiest airports in the world. In order to control noise for residents on flight paths, only one of Heathrow’s two parallel runways can be used for departures at any given time. We aim to increase the throughput of the departure system, and in particular the runway, which is a bottleneck for the whole system. Mi...

Nomenclature (contlnued) The paper discusses the development and testing of a real-time Takeoff Performance M Pitching moment (ft_lb) Monitoring System. The algorithm is madeup of two MACH Mach number segments: a pretakeoff segment and a real_time p Roll Rate (rad/sec) segment, q Pitch Rate (rad/sec) One_time inputs of ambient conditions and r Yaw Rate (rad/sec) airplane configuration informati...

We study a scheduling problem, motivated by air-traffic control, in which a set of aircrafts are about to land on a single runway. When coming close to the landing area of the airport, a set of time windows in which the landing is possible, is automatically assigned to each aircraft. The objective is to maximize the minimum time elapsed between any two consecutive landings. We study the complex...