Optimal Control of Airport Operations with Gate Capacity Constraints
The mitigation of airport surface congestion is an important step towards increasing the efficiency of the air transportation system, and decreasing flight delays. This paper proposes a strategy to control the release of departing flights from their gates with the specific objective of reducing thei...
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| author | Khadilkar, Harshad Dilip Balakrishnan, Hamsa |
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| description | The mitigation of airport surface congestion is an important step towards increasing the efficiency of the air transportation system, and decreasing flight delays. This paper proposes a strategy to control the release of departing flights from their gates with the specific objective of reducing their taxi times and fuel consumption, while limiting the impact on airport throughput. The proposed strategy also explicitly accounts for the practical constraints that arise due to limited gate resources at the airport. A stochastic network abstraction of the airport surface is used to model aircraft movement, and the optimal release time for each aircraft is calculated using dynamic programming. Simulations of operations at Boston's Logan International Airport in the US are used to illustrate the effects of the resultant policies. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/811852022-09-29T20:35:56Z Optimal Control of Airport Operations with Gate Capacity Constraints Khadilkar, Harshad Dilip Balakrishnan, Hamsa Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division Khadilkar, Harshad Dilip Balakrishnan, Hamsa The mitigation of airport surface congestion is an important step towards increasing the efficiency of the air transportation system, and decreasing flight delays. This paper proposes a strategy to control the release of departing flights from their gates with the specific objective of reducing their taxi times and fuel consumption, while limiting the impact on airport throughput. The proposed strategy also explicitly accounts for the practical constraints that arise due to limited gate resources at the airport. A stochastic network abstraction of the airport surface is used to model aircraft movement, and the optimal release time for each aircraft is calculated using dynamic programming. Simulations of operations at Boston's Logan International Airport in the US are used to illustrate the effects of the resultant policies. National Science Foundation (U.S.) (CAREER Award ECCS-0745237) National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Cyber-Physical Systems Award 0931843) 2013-09-26T12:31:39Z 2013-09-26T12:31:39Z 2013-07 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81185 Khadilkar, Harshad Dilip, & Balakrishnan, Hamsa. (2013). Optimal Control of Airport Operations with Gate Capacity Constraints. Paper presented at European Control Conference 2013, Zurich, Switzerland. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8624-7041 en_US https://controls.papercept.net/conferences/conferences/ECC13/program/ECC13_ContentListWeb_2.html#web4_05 Proceedings of the European Control Conference 2013 Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ application/pdf European Control Association MIT web domain |
| spellingShingle | Khadilkar, Harshad Dilip Balakrishnan, Hamsa Optimal Control of Airport Operations with Gate Capacity Constraints |
| title | Optimal Control of Airport Operations with Gate Capacity Constraints |
| title_full | Optimal Control of Airport Operations with Gate Capacity Constraints |
| title_fullStr | Optimal Control of Airport Operations with Gate Capacity Constraints |
| title_full_unstemmed | Optimal Control of Airport Operations with Gate Capacity Constraints |
| title_short | Optimal Control of Airport Operations with Gate Capacity Constraints |
| title_sort | optimal control of airport operations with gate capacity constraints |
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