based on iris texture analysis. IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. 25(12), 1519–1533 (2003) 14. Ma, L., Wang, Y., Tan, T.: Iris recognition using circular symmetric filters. In: Proceedings of International Conference on Pattern Recognition, pp. 414–417 (2002) 15. Jain, A.K., Ross, A., Prabhakar, S.: An introduction to biometric recognition. IEEE Trans. Circ. Syst. Video Technol. 14(1), 4–...

In busy airports, too many departing flights take off out of the time slot required by the Central Flow Management Unit (CFMU). During ground traffic peaks, taxi out times and runway queuing delays increase, and it seems very hard and maybe unfeasible for ground controllers to organise properly the traffic so that aircraft take off at their scheduled time. In a first part, this paper shows how ...

This paper provides a practical procedure for designing efficient taxi pick-up operations at airports. How to do this effectively is an open question. Solutions are not available. Practices differ widely, reflecting different approaches to, and lack of research on the subject. The solutions are often unsatisfactory. At many airports, passengers routinely suffer long waits outside, exposed to th...