Input-output modeling and control of the departure process of congested airports

Pujet, Nicolas; Delcaire, Bertrand; Féron, Éric

doi:10.2514/6.1999-4299

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“…The N-control strategy is one such approach, and was first considered in the Departure Planner project (Feron et al, 1997); several variants of it have been studied since (Pujet et al, 1999;Carr, 2001;Burgain et al, 2009;Burgain, 2010). This policy is effectively a simple threshold heuristic: if the total number of departing aircraft on the ground exceeds a certain threshold, further pushbacks are stopped until the number of aircraft on the ground drops below the threshold.…”

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Demonstration of reduced airport congestion through pushback rate control

Simaiakis

Khadilkar

Balakrishnan

et al. 2014

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

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Airport surface congestion results in significant increases in taxi times, fuel burn and emissions at major airports. This paper describes the field tests of a congestion control strategy at Boston Logan International Airport. The approach determines a suggested rate to meter pushbacks from the gate, in order to prevent the airport surface from entering congested states and to reduce the time that flights spend with engines on while taxiing to the runway. The field trials demonstrated that significant benefits were achievable through such a strategy: during eight four-hour tests conducted during August and September 2010, fuel use was reduced by an estimated 12,250-14,500 kg (4,000-4,700 US gallons), while aircraft gate pushback times were increased by an average of only 4.4 minutes for the 247 flights that were held at the gate.

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Demonstration of reduced airport congestion through pushback rate control

Simaiakis

Khadilkar

Balakrishnan

et al. 2014

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

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“…Gilbo (1993) and Hall (1999) have gone beyond the sequencing of arrivals only by considering how available capacity can best be allocated in a dynamic way between landings and takeoffs to account for the distinct peaking patterns in the arrival and departure streams at airports over the course of a day. Pujet et al (1999) have further examined the issue of optimizing the number of aircraft taxiing out during periods of congestion, based on the empirical observation that departure rates at major airports seem to decrease when the number of active aircraft on the taxiway system exceeds a certain airport-specific threshold.…”

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Applications of Operations Research in the Air Transport Industry

Barnhart

Belobaba

Odoni

2003

Transportation Science

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T his paper presents an overview of several important areas of operations research applications in the air transport industry. Specific areas covered are: the various stages of aircraft and crew schedule planning; revenue management, including overbooking and legbased and network-based seat inventory management; and the planning and operations of aviation infrastructure (airports and air traffic management). For each of these areas, the paper provides a historical perspective on OR contributions, as well as a brief summary of the state of the art. It also identifies some of the main challenges for future research.

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“…This method is fairly easy to implement, however, it may raise gate capacity issues, since it transfers runway queue delays to gate delays [10]. Controlling the gate release times with the help of the Gate Manager provides the controllers with a unique opportunity to implement the above control strategy, to control the size of takeoff queues and the sequencing of aircraft within the queues.…”

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“…In view of this control option, Airline Service Quality Performance (ASQP) data was studied in [ 11] and a simple dynamic queuing model for departure operations was developed and used to analyze airport surface operations. Based on the analysis results, simple departure control strategies were suggested for the purpose of alleviating surface congestion.…”

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Conceptual Design of a Departure Planner Decision Aid

Anagnostakis¹,

Idris²,

Clarke³

et al. 2001

Air Transportation Systems Engineering

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Terminal area Air Traffic Management handles both arriving and departing traffic. To date, research work on terminal area operations has focused primarily on the arrival flow and typically departures are taken into account only in an approximate (average) manner. However, arrivals and departures are highly coupled processes especially in the terminal airspace, with complex interactions and sharing of the same airport resources between arrivals and departures taking place in practically every important terminal area. Therefore, the addition of automation aids for departures, possibly in co-operation with existing arrival flow automation systems, could have a profound contribution in enhancing the overall efficiency of airport operations. This paper presents the conceptual system architecture for such an automation aid, the Departure Planner (DP). This architecture c an be used as a core in the development of decision-aiding systems to assist air traffic controllers in improving the performance of departure operations and optimize runway time allocation among different operations at major congested airports. The design of such systems is expected to increase the overall efficiency of terminal area operations and yield benefits for all stakeholders involved in Air Traffic Management (ATM) operations, users as well as service providers.

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Input-output modeling and control of the departure process of congested airports

Cited by 77 publications

References 3 publications

Demonstration of reduced airport congestion through pushback rate control

Demonstration of reduced airport congestion through pushback rate control

Applications of Operations Research in the Air Transport Industry

Conceptual Design of a Departure Planner Decision Aid

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