This paper focuses on the aircraft landing problem that is to assign landing times to aircraft approaching the airport under consideration. Each aircraft’s landing time must be in a time interval encompassing a target landing time. If the actual landing time deviates from the target landing time additional costs occur which depend on the amount of earliness and lateness, respectively. The objec...

A STATISTICAL SEPARATION STANDARD AND RISK-THROUGHPUT MODELING OF THE AIRCRAFT LANDING PROCESS Babak Ghalebsaz Jeddi, Ph.D. George Mason University, 2008 Dissertation Director: Dr. John F. Shortle In the context of a high demand for runways as important scarce resources of the national air transportation system, this dissertation is concerned with the problem of determining the best separation ...

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...

Guidance and control of aircraft in the landing phase imposes extra pilot work loads, hence application of automatic landing control systems is of great importance. In this study automatic landing control systems are introduced and an optimal landing control system is designed. The control system performance criteria are based on minimum control effort. The designed system is simulated for a tr...

Scheduling landings of aircrafts is an essential problem which is continuously solved as part of the daily operations of an airport control tower. All planes in the airspace of an airport are to be assigned to landing slots by the responsible air-tra c controller. The support of this decision problem with suited optimization approaches has a long lasting tradition in operations research. Howeve...

The Aircraft Scheduling Problem (ASP) is the real-time problem of scheduling take-off and landing operations at a congested airport in a given time horizon, taking into account the runways and the air segments in the Terminal Maneuvering Area (TMA). The ASP can be viewed as a job shop scheduling problem with additional real-world constraints. Compared with the current literature based on job sh...

The Aircraft Landing Problem consists in sequencing aircraft on the available runways and scheduling their landing times taking into consideration several operational constraints, order to increase runway capacity and/or reduce delays. In this work we propose a new Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) model for landings single or multiple independent incorporating safety constraints by means of sepa...

Aircraft Landing Problem is to assign an airport’s runways to the arrival aircraft as well as to schedule the landing time of these aircraft. In this paper, due to the complexity of the problem, which is NP-hard, we develop an iterative-based heuristic by exploiting special characteristics of the problem. Computational results show the developed approach is quite competitive, and obtain optimal...

This paper handles a trajectory optimization of fixed wing aircraft perch landing assisted by thruster. The paper develops aircraft model and deals with six-degree-of-freedom motion for further understanding of dynamic phenomena of proposed landing method. The landing maneuver is described as an optimal control problem minimizing the fuel consumption with specified terminal landing conditions. ...