A comparison of aircraft trajectory-based and aggregate queue-based control of airport taxi processes
There is significant potential to decrease fuel burn, emissions, and delays of aircraft at airports by optimizing surface operations. A simple surface traffic optimization approach is to hold aircraft back at the gates based on aggregate information on surface queues. Depending on the level of surfa...
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| author | Lee, Hanbong Simaiakis, Ioannis Balakrishnan, Hamsa |
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| description | There is significant potential to decrease fuel burn, emissions, and delays of aircraft at airports by optimizing surface operations. A simple surface traffic optimization approach is to hold aircraft back at the gates based on aggregate information on surface queues. Depending on the level of surface surveillance and onboard equipage, it may also be possible to use a more complex approach, namely, to simultaneously optimize the surface trajectories of all taxiing aircraft. Using data from the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County airport (DTW), this paper compares the benefits of the two approaches, and finds that at a relatively uncongested airport such as DTW, the aggregate queue-based approach only yields modest improvements in taxi-out time, while the trajectory-based approach yields a nearly 23% decrease in average taxi-out time (achieving the average unimpeded taxi-out time). |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/659432022-09-23T10:39:47Z A comparison of aircraft trajectory-based and aggregate queue-based control of airport taxi processes Lee, Hanbong Simaiakis, Ioannis Balakrishnan, Hamsa Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Balakrishnan, Hamsa Lee, Hanbong Simaiakis, Ioannis Balakrishnan, Hamsa There is significant potential to decrease fuel burn, emissions, and delays of aircraft at airports by optimizing surface operations. A simple surface traffic optimization approach is to hold aircraft back at the gates based on aggregate information on surface queues. Depending on the level of surface surveillance and onboard equipage, it may also be possible to use a more complex approach, namely, to simultaneously optimize the surface trajectories of all taxiing aircraft. Using data from the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County airport (DTW), this paper compares the benefits of the two approaches, and finds that at a relatively uncongested airport such as DTW, the aggregate queue-based approach only yields modest improvements in taxi-out time, while the trajectory-based approach yields a nearly 23% decrease in average taxi-out time (achieving the average unimpeded taxi-out time). 2011-09-23T16:15:37Z 2011-09-23T16:15:37Z 2010-10 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper 978-1-4244-6616-0 2155-7195 INSPEC Accession Number: 11721884 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65943 Hanbong Lee, I. Simaiakis, and H. Balakrishnan. “A comparison of aircraft trajectory-based and aggregate queue-based control of airport taxi processes.” Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC), 2010 IEEE/AIAA 29th. 2010. 1.B.3-1-1.B.3-15. Copyright © 2010, IEEE https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8624-7041 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/DASC.2010.5655526 Digital Avionics Systems Conference (29th : 2010) Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers / American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics / IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society IEEE |
| spellingShingle | Lee, Hanbong Simaiakis, Ioannis Balakrishnan, Hamsa A comparison of aircraft trajectory-based and aggregate queue-based control of airport taxi processes |
| title | A comparison of aircraft trajectory-based and aggregate queue-based control of airport taxi processes |
| title_full | A comparison of aircraft trajectory-based and aggregate queue-based control of airport taxi processes |
| title_fullStr | A comparison of aircraft trajectory-based and aggregate queue-based control of airport taxi processes |
| title_full_unstemmed | A comparison of aircraft trajectory-based and aggregate queue-based control of airport taxi processes |
| title_short | A comparison of aircraft trajectory-based and aggregate queue-based control of airport taxi processes |
| title_sort | comparison of aircraft trajectory based and aggregate queue based control of airport taxi processes |
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