Air Transportation Research: Recent submissions

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    • Improvement of Terminal Area Capacity in the New York Airspace 

      Donaldson, Alexander D.; Hansman, R. John (2011-02-17)
      The New York airspace is the most congested in the U.S. air transportation network. Increasing capacity in this area is critical to ensure the balanced growth of traffic across the U.S. This study compares the total ...

    • Demonstration of Reduced Airport Congestion Through Pushback Rate Control 

      Simaiakis, Ioannis; Balakrishnan, Hasmsa; Khadilkar, Harshad; Reynolds, Tom G.; Hansman, R. John; e.a. (2011-02-02)
      Airport surface congestion results in significant increases in taxi times, fuel burn and emissions at major airports. This paper presents the field tests of a control strategy to airport congestion control at Boston Logan ...

    • Departure Throughput Study for Boston Logan International Airport 

      Simaiakis, Ioannis; Balakrishnan, Hasmsa (2011-02-02)
      We propose a new parametric representation of the departure capacity of airports. In particular, we show how the departure capacity can be represented by the variation of the average departure throughput as a function of ...