In this paper we present a four-level market model that accounts for airport capacity extension, fleet investment, aircraft scheduling, and ticket trade. In particular, budget-constrained airports decide on the first level on their optimal runway capacity extension and on a corresponding airport charge. Airports anticipate optimal long-term fleet investment of airlines on the second level, opti...

A prototype decision support tool for terminal area air traffic controllers, referred to as the Final Approach Spacing Tool (FAST), was recently evaluated in operation with live air traffic at the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas Airport. Controllers utilized FAST’s runway and sequence advisories to manage and control arrival traffic during more than twenty-five peak rush traffic periods. This paper pr...

We describe a multi-modal unscented Kalman filter developed for estimation of aircraft position, velocity and heading from noisy surface surveillance data. The raw data is composed of tracks generated by the Airport Surface Detection Equipment, Model-X at Boston Logan International Airport, and is obtained from the Runway Status Lights system. The multi-modal filter formulation facilitates esti...

Runway surface conditions are fundamental to ensure safety during landing and takeoff operations of aircrafts. In this manner, airport operators required monitor the coefficient friction macrotexture runways maintain its plan maintenance rehabilitation strategies when appropriate, since both these parameters get deteriorated with time. Thus, assist aerodrome regulatory agencies in decision-maki...

Hot Mix Asphalt (HMA) paving of airport runways mostly requires multiple paving teams, multiple pavers, and a wide array of other equipment. The runway paving projects are typically renowned for the logistical effort and the tight margins for overruns, often requiring a relatively large part of the contractor’s resources. Due to the nature of airport operations the projects are of a fast-track ...

London Heathrow Airport is a very popular and busy airport. Indeed it is one of the busiest airports in the world. In order to control noise for residents on flight paths, only one of Heathrow’s two parallel runways can be used for departures at any given time. We aim to increase the throughput of the departure system, and in particular the runway, which is a bottleneck for the whole system. Mi...

London Heathrow airport is one of the busiest airports in the world as it is very popular with both airlines and passengers. The capacity of the departure system at Heathrow is limited by the capacity of the runway. It is therefore imperative to maximise the throughput of the single available departure runway. Aircraft taxi from the stands to the ends of the runway where they queue in holding p...

This paper presents a short contribution in air transportation, specifically in scheduling aircraft (plane) landings at Léopol Sédar Senghor (LSS) airport of Dakar. The safety of air navigation of LSS is managed by ASECNA: Agency for Air Navigation Safety in Africa and Madagascar. Scheduling aircraft landing is the problem of deciding a landing time on an appropriate runway for each aircraft in...

ASDE-X is a runway safety system that fuses data from multiple sources to provide enhanced air traffic control situational awareness. These data may also be used to manage arrival and departure delay at congested airports. This paper demonstrates the potential for delay management by using departure data recorded by the ASDE-X system at JFK Airport before runway reconstruction in 2010 began. Th...