Integrated Control of Airport and Terminal Airspace Operations
Airports are the most resource-constrained components of the air transportation system. This paper addresses the problems of increased flight delays and aircraft fuel consumption through the integrated control of airport arrival and departure operations. Departure operations are modeled using a netw...
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| author | Khadilkar, Harshad Balakrishnan, Hamsa |
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| description | Airports are the most resource-constrained components of the air transportation system. This paper addresses the problems of increased flight delays and aircraft fuel consumption through the integrated control of airport arrival and departure operations. Departure operations are modeled using a network abstraction of the airport surface. Published arrival routes to airports are synthesized to form a realistic model of arrival airspace. The proposed control framework calculates the optimal times of departure of aircraft from the gates, as a function of the arrival and departure traffic as well as airport characteristics such as taxiway layout and gate capacity. The integrated control formulation is solved using dynamic programming, which allows calculation of policies for real-time implementation. The advantages of the proposed methodology are illustrated using simulations of Boston's Logan International Airport. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1092092022-10-02T07:58:13Z Integrated Control of Airport and Terminal Airspace Operations Khadilkar, Harshad Balakrishnan, Hamsa Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Data, Systems, and Society Balakrishnan, Hamsa Airports are the most resource-constrained components of the air transportation system. This paper addresses the problems of increased flight delays and aircraft fuel consumption through the integrated control of airport arrival and departure operations. Departure operations are modeled using a network abstraction of the airport surface. Published arrival routes to airports are synthesized to form a realistic model of arrival airspace. The proposed control framework calculates the optimal times of departure of aircraft from the gates, as a function of the arrival and departure traffic as well as airport characteristics such as taxiway layout and gate capacity. The integrated control formulation is solved using dynamic programming, which allows calculation of policies for real-time implementation. The advantages of the proposed methodology are illustrated using simulations of Boston's Logan International Airport. National Science Foundation (U.S.) (0931843) 2017-05-19T15:45:26Z 2017-05-19T15:45:26Z 2015-05 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1063-6536 1558-0865 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/109209 Khadilkar, Harshad and Balakrishnan, Hamsa. “Integrated Control of Airport and Terminal Airspace Operations.” IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology 24, no. 1 (January 2016): 216–225. © 2016 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8624-7041 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tcst.2015.2424922 IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) MIT web domain |
| spellingShingle | Khadilkar, Harshad Balakrishnan, Hamsa Integrated Control of Airport and Terminal Airspace Operations |
| title | Integrated Control of Airport and Terminal Airspace Operations |
| title_full | Integrated Control of Airport and Terminal Airspace Operations |
| title_fullStr | Integrated Control of Airport and Terminal Airspace Operations |
| title_full_unstemmed | Integrated Control of Airport and Terminal Airspace Operations |
| title_short | Integrated Control of Airport and Terminal Airspace Operations |
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