Many airport runway expansion projects are restricted by space limitations imposed by development in the vicinity of the airport. This often causes planners to choose configurations for new runways that limit the use of these runways in time and/or space. Studies that model airports with new runways that are not yet operational need to develop plausible operational models for these new runways ...

In the runway model of intracranial self-stimulation (ICSS) experimentation, the experimental animal is timed in running a fixed distance to depress a lever that releases electrical stimulation to an electrode implanted along its medial forebrain bundle. This ICSS has both a reward and a motivational component. Using the runway method and priming stimulation, we designed an experimental method ...

Runway incursions are among the most serious safety concerns in air traffic control. Traditional A-SMGCS level 2 safety systems detect runway incursions with the help of surveillance information only. In the context of SESAR, complementary safety systems are emerging that also use other information in addition to surveillance, and that aim at warning about potential runway incursions at earlier...

the method based on the spatial disparities [6, 71 used This paper proposes a method for detecting obstacles on a runway from monocular image sequences. The surface of the runway is modeled as a plane and the model flow field corresponding to the runway is described by 8 coefficients. The set of 8 coefficients describing the initial model flow field is given by the data from Inertial Navigation...

This paper presents an analytical model of the aircraft departure process at an airport. The modeling procedure includes the estimation of unimpeded taxi-out time distributions, and the development of a queuing model of the departure runway system based on the transient analysis of D(t)/Ek(t)/1 queuing systems. The parameters of the runway service process are estimated using operational data. U...

The paper presents a new system for the automat control of the aircrafts’ flight in lateral plane using the cinematic model and the dynamic inversion. Starting from the equations of the aircrafts’ lateral movement, the authors use two axes systems and obtained a control law that cancels the lateral deviation of the flying objects from the runway line. This system makes the aircrafts’ direction ...

What is the role of dopamine in natural rewards? A genetic mutant approach was taken to examine the consequences of elevated synaptic dopamine on (1) spontaneous food and water intake, (2) incentive motivation and learning to obtain a palatable sweet reward in a runway task, and (3) affective "liking" reactions elicited by the taste of sucrose. A dopamine transporter (DAT) knockdown mutation th...

bstract—A conflict task was developed that simultaneously xamines place aversion learning and fear-motivated context iscrimination. The task superimposed Pavlovian discriminaive fear conditioning on an appetitively motivated instrumenal response (alternation). Rats were trained to alternate long a high-walled, diamond-shaped runway between two hambers for food. On half of the trials, a tone CS ...

This paper addresses the challenge of building an automated decision support methodology to tackle the complex problem faced every day by runway controllers at London Heathrow Airport. Aircraft taxi from stands to holding areas at the end of the current take-off runway where they wait in queues for permission to take off. A runway controller attempts to find the best order for aircraft to take ...