Demonstration of reduced airport congestion through pushback rate control
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...
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| author | Simaiakis, Ioannis Khadilkar, Harshad Dilip Balakrishnan, Hamsa Reynolds, Thomas G. Hansman Jr, Robert J |
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| description | 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 (4000–4700 US gallons), while aircraft gate pushback times were increased by an average of only 4.4 min for the 247 flights that were held at the gate. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1111572022-09-29T22:29:03Z Demonstration of reduced airport congestion through pushback rate control Simaiakis, Ioannis Khadilkar, Harshad Dilip Balakrishnan, Hamsa Reynolds, Thomas G. Hansman Jr, Robert J Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Simaiakis, Ioannis Khadilkar, Harshad Dilip Balakrishnan, Hamsa Reynolds, Thomas G. Hansman Jr, Robert J 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 (4000–4700 US gallons), while aircraft gate pushback times were increased by an average of only 4.4 min for the 247 flights that were held at the gate. 2017-09-08T15:13:42Z 2017-09-08T15:13:42Z 2014-06 2013-11 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0965-8564 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/111157 Simaiakis, Ioannis et al. “Demonstration of Reduced Airport Congestion through Pushback Rate Control.” Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 66 (August 2014): 251–267 © 2014 Elsevier Ltd https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8624-7041 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9591-3579 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2014.05.014 Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ application/pdf Elsevier MIT Web Domain |
| spellingShingle | Simaiakis, Ioannis Khadilkar, Harshad Dilip Balakrishnan, Hamsa Reynolds, Thomas G. Hansman Jr, Robert J Demonstration of reduced airport congestion through pushback rate control |
| title | Demonstration of reduced airport congestion through pushback rate control |
| title_full | Demonstration of reduced airport congestion through pushback rate control |
| title_fullStr | Demonstration of reduced airport congestion through pushback rate control |
| title_full_unstemmed | Demonstration of reduced airport congestion through pushback rate control |
| title_short | Demonstration of reduced airport congestion through pushback rate control |
| title_sort | demonstration of reduced airport congestion through pushback rate control |
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