This paper studies slot allocation at congested airports in Europe. First, I discuss the inefficiencies of the current regulation, introduced as part of the liberalisation process of the air transport market. Then, I consider three marked based methods which are suitable to achieve a more efficient allocation of slots to airlines: congestion pricing, auctions and secondary trading. These method...

When aircraft take off, a minimum separation time must be enforced between them. The separation required between each pair of aircraft depends upon the weight classes, speed groups and departure routes. This ensures that wake vortices have time to dissipate, in-flight separations are maintained and congestion is controlled. Some separations may need to be increased in bad weather. The take-off ...

In the emerging deregulated electric power market, congestion management becomes extremely important and it can impose barrier to electric power trading. There are t w o types of congestion management methodologies to relieve congestion in transmission lines. One is non-cost free methods and another is cost-free methods, among them later method relieves the congestion technically whereas the fo...

We aim to reduce the social cost of congestion in many smart city applications. In our model of congestion, agents interact over limited resources after receiving signals from a central agent that observes the state of congestion in real time. Under natural models of agent populations, we develop new signalling schemes and show that by introducing a non-trivial amount of uncertainty in the sign...

In the deregulated power systems, transmission congestion is one of the significant and main problems of the electrical networks which can cause incremental cost in the energy. This problem has resulted to new challenging issues in different parts of power systems which there was not in the traditional systems or at least had very little importance. Transmission congestion happens when the maxi...

Airport congestion pricing has often been advocated as a means of controlling demand for airport operations and for achieving efficient resource allocation. Competition between airlines affects the extent to which an airline would be willing to pay for airport slots. Accurate modeling of competition is critical in order to determine the effectiveness of a congestion pricing mechanism. We develo...

In most countries, traffic congestion has reached a level where managing is tedious for regulatory bodies. The management faced many issues such as route routing based on congestion, delivery of messages/emails to end-users, and real-time allocation parking slots. There have been works predicting prices management, but favor users or owners are not secure. To address these issues, blockchain In...

under the smart grid environment, demand response resources (drrs) are introduced as a virtual power plant to enhance power system adequacy. drrs often fail to reduce their load due to some external factors. in this paper, a reliability model of a drr is constructed as multi-state conventional generation units, where the probability, frequency of occurrence, and departure rate of each state can...

The proliferation of distributed energy resources (DERs) in electric distribution networks brings both challenges and opportunities to the management of the electric grid. In the right locations these resources can provide value to the network by reducing congestion and losses and deferring investment in network upgrades. To unlock this value, however, more efficient economic signals need to be...

We view congestion control as a distributed primal-dual algorithm carried out by sources and links over a network to solve a global optimization problem. We describe a multi-link multi-source model of the TCP Vegas congestion control mechanism. The model provides a fundamental understanding of delay, fairness and loss properties of TCP Vegas. It implies that Vegas stabilizes around a weighted p...