The problem of deciding how to land aircraft approaching an airport involves assigning each aircraft to an appropriate runway, computing a landing sequence for each runway and scheduling the landing time for each aircraft. Runway allocation, sequencing and scheduling for each aircraft must ensure the scheduled landing time lies within a predefined time window and meet separation time requiremen...

Significant delays and resulting environmental impacts are commonly observed during departure operations at major US and European airports. One approach for mitigating airport congestion and delays is to exercise tactical operations planning and control with an objective to improve the efficiency of surface and terminal area operations. As a subtask of planning airport surface operations, this ...

We are pursuing the detection of runways in aerial images as part of a project to automatically map complex cultural areas such as a major commercial airport complex. This task is much more difficult that appears at first. _ We use a hypothesize and test paradigm. Hypotheses are formed by looking for instances of long rectangular shapes, possibly interrupted by other long rectangles. We use run...

Due to air traffic growth and especially hubs development, major European airports can easily become bottlenecks in the global air transportation network. Therefore, accurate models of airport traffic prediction become more and more necessary for ground controllers. In this paper, a ground traffic simulation tool is proposed and applied to Roissy Charles De Gaulle airport. Two global optimizati...

Due to an anticipated increase in air traffic during the next decade, air traffic control in busy airports is one of the main challenges confronting controllers in the near future. Since the runway is often a bottleneck in an airport system, there is great interest in optimizing usage of the runway. Our study first presents a brief review of the aircraft landing problem. A model for the problem...

This paper presents a data-driven deicing management framework to minimize the environmental impact of airport deicing activities at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. Airplane deicing involves the use of aircraft deicing and anti-icing fluids with a high concentration of ethylene/propylene/diethylene glycol. The glycol shearing off the airplanes during taxiing and dripping to the runway ...

Abstract A particle swarm optimization algorithm is proposed in this study to optimize the fire distribution, so as solve distribution problem of cluster warhead anti-airport runway. The fitness function built based on calculation model runway blocking probability using Monte Carlo method, and optimal aiming point allocation scheme obtained algorithm. Moreover, feasibility advantages are compar...

At many airports, aircraft take off from multiple departure runways. During periods of high departure demand, whether or not the departure runways are balanced directly affects the capacity and efficiency of the airport. This paper begins by investigating the cause of runway imbalances. Homogeneity in the direction of flight during a departure push and the procedures for runway assignments are ...