Saturday July 22nd. Brussels airport, hot, not enough head wind, and our DC-10 just stood there on the runway, waiting for that little breeze that would allow us to go up into the sky (it seemed the plane was too heavy to have enough velocity at the end of the runway to safely take off). We saw all those other planes fly off and our pilot must have thought, after half an hour or so, that what t...

Over the past few decades, air traffic has experienced a tremendous Growth. However, as the air traffic develops, the limitation of the runway becomes the bottleneck during the airport operation and scheduling aircraft landing present a complex daily task encountered by most air traffic control towers. In this paper, we study the Multiple Runway case of the Aircraft Landing Problem (MRALP), whi...

Airports lose significant capacity during instrument conditions. Several plans are afoot to expand the nations’ airports to achieve sufficient runway spacing for independent IFR approaches. The projected cost of the ten largest projects in the United States is $8 16 Billion. The ability to conduct Closely Spaced Parallel Approaches (CSPA) in Instrument Meteorological Conditions (IMC) could redu...

Aircraft precision approach guidance systems require accurate positioning relative to the runway with a high level of integrity. Most precision approach guidance systems in use today require ground-based electronic navigation components with at least one installation at each airport, and in many cases multiple installations to service approaches to all qualifying runway ends. A terrain-referenc...

Most of the proposed security protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are designed to provide the uniform level of security across the network. There are various multi-sensing applications like sensors monitoring airport runway control system which may also be used to monitor environmental conditions such as wind speed and direction. When these nodes communicate, they may require different...

This paper analyzes arrival flight track data at Chicago (ORD) and Atlanta (ATL) airports. We investigate distributions of vertical and lateral position at different distances from the runway threshold in instrument meteorological conditions (IMC) and visual meteorological conditions (VMC). In IMC, the observed standard deviations at different distances are similar between the two airports. The...

London Heathrow is an extremely popular airport, where efficient take-off sequencing is important for ensuring a high runway throughput. Aircraft are usually released from the stands as soon as possible, providing the maximum pool of aircraft at the runway from which to choose from when sequencing. This paper considers the task of predicting the delay that aircraft will experience, so that some...

Detection of runways in aerial images is part of a project to automatically map complex cultural areas such as a major commercial airport complex. This task is much more difficult than appears at first. Runways are not merely homogeneous strips in the image due to several markings on the surface, changes in the surface material and presence of other objects such as taxiways and aircraft. We use...

Recent proposals for new air traffic control have suggested that advanced digital video technology may remove the need for air traffic controllers to be present in airport towers. In the future airport traffic in particular at small airports may be controlled from a remote location without the need for a physical tower building (Fürstenau & Schulz-Rueckert 2010). Since preliminary investigation...

The airport industry is changing. Once understood as stand-alone public infrastructures, many modern airports now operate within privatized multi-airport systems and contend with previously unknown competitive pressures. As a result, many of the same airports which once enjoyed natural monopolies and government protections must now compete with secondary facilities both for airline patronage an...