The Runway Configuration Management problem governs what combinations of airport runways are in use at a given time for an airport or a collection of airports. Runway configurations (groupings of runways), operate under Runway Configuration Capacity Envelopes (RCCEs) which limit arrival and departure capacities. The RCCE identifies unique capacity constraints based on which runways are used for...

We analyzed a special-purpose dataset containing times at which flights crossed concentric circles at various distances from six major US airports in July 2001. We converted the circlecrossing information into effective speeds along four flight segments defined by the circles. Working with data in 15 minute intervals, we correlated the segment speeds with runway loading, defined as expected arr...

III Lincoln Laboratory has developed a prototype runway-status light system (RSLS), designed to prevent runway incursions and accidents. These status lights will tell aircraft pilots and surface-vehicle operators when runways are unsafe to enter or unsafe for departure. This status information will improve the situational awareness of pilots and vehicle operators, thereby reducing the number of...

This study examined three visual strategies for timing the initiation of the landing flare based on perceptions of either: (a) a critical height above ground level; (b) a critical runway width angle (Psi); or (c) a critical time-to-contact (TTC) with the runway. Visual displays simulated landing approaches with trial-to-trial variations in glideslope, lighting, and scene detail. Twenty-four par...

This study aims to develop a controllers decision support tool for departure and surface management of ICN. Airport surface traffic optimization for Incheon International Airport (ICN) in South Korea was studied based on the operational characteristics of ICN and airspace of Korea. For surface traffic optimization, a multiple runway scheduling problem and a taxi scheduling problem were formulat...

Capacity limitation of runway and taxiway in an airport is often the major limiting factor of air traffic operation. The congestions on the apron of an airport cause severe delay on aircraft schedule. This paper proposes an integrated algorithm to solve problems of runway scheduling and taxiway routing simultaneously for both departure and arrival aircrafts. A set partitioning model with side c...

A runway incursion is defined as any occurrence in the airport runway environment involving an aircraft, vehicle, person, or object on the ground that creates a collision hazard or results in a loss of required separation with an aircraft taking off, intending to take off, landing, or intending to land. Multiple factors could contribute to runway incursion, including pilots’ failure to accurate...

Runway is a cloud-native tool for managing machine learning experiments and their associated models. The iterative nature of developing models results in a large number of experiments and models that are often managed in an ad hoc manner. Runway is a workflow and framework independent tool that centrally manages and maintains metadata and links to artifacts needed to reproduce models and experi...

In this study, we set the average taxi time of flight as the objective of the gate and runway assignment problem. We present a gate and runway combinatorial optimization model with several restrictions such as restrictions of gate and runway time, type of aircraft and service. We design a Discrete Particle Swarm Optimization (DPSO) algorithm to solve this problem. Inspired by the genetic algori...

London Heathrow airport is one of the busiest airports in the world. Moreover, it is unusual among the world’s leading airports in that it only has two runways. At many airports the runway throughput is the bottleneck to the departure process and, as such, it is vital to schedule departures effectively and efficiently. For reasons of safety, separations need to be enforced between departing air...