This paper presents an end-user evaluation of aircraft detection and identification capacity of the surveillance system deployed in Terminal 4 apron of Madrid-Barajas International Airport. The main goal of the system is to provide real-time surveillance information about aircraft and vehicles on the apron area, including stands, facilitating airport operation centre tasks concerned with delay ...

Passengers’ experience is becoming a key metric to evaluate the air transportation system’s performance. Efficient and robust tools to handle airport operations are needed along with a better understanding of passengers’ interests and concerns. This paper is concerned with airport gate scheduling for improved passenger experience while ensuring robust air-side operations. Three metrics accounti...

Fundamental to intermodal development is consistent demand modeling across the intermodal system, which coordinates resource allocation. However, different planning organizations are responsible for the development of different components of the intermodal system. In the case of air transportation, air demand modeling is mainly conducted by Federal Aviation Administration and commercial airline...

It is a fact that the most delays in the Air Transportation System (ATS) today occur on the airport. One reason for this is the large number of actors operating at the airport and the scarcity of communication between them and other parts of the ATS. Airport Logistics is a concept developed to survey all the flows of vehicles, people, material and information, which can be found on and around t...

This paper presents a model of an airport apron that has been developed in order to determine a dynamical model for aircraft travel time in this area. This model is intended for future systems that will support automated routing and taxiing of aircraft in airport taxiways. The apron model proposed keeps into account the main issues related to the aircraft ground movements, such as aircraft conf...

In this paper we analyze the topological properties of airport network of India (ANI) using graph theoretic approach. We show that such an analysis can be useful not only in planning the infrastructure and growth of the air-traffic connectivity, but also in managing the flow of transportation during emergencies such as accidental failure of the airport, close down of the airport due to unexpect...

This paper presents a new job schedule model approach which takes into account the airport problem as a whole. This includes solving the integrated air traffic flow management problems at the airport. The department and the arrival managements are solved by job scheduling, but the taxi planning and the gate assignment are also studied with job schedule models. The paper integrates them in an it...

abstract background: in recent years, infrared thermography tools are used for viral disease detection. however, no study has been to evaluate the value of this device. the current study was designed to review the effectiveness of infrared thermography technique for diagnosis of viral diseases in international airports. materials and methods: this study was conducted as a systematic review. all...

Niigata City can be easily accessed from Tokyo by the JR Joetsu Shinkansen (100 min.), which arrives approximately every 30 min. Niigata Airport has direct flights from Nagoya Chubu Centrair, and Osaka International Airport, and is also an international gateway with regular flights from Harbin, Incheon, Shanghai, Taipei and other international cities. It takes 25 min. by bus from Niigata Airpor...