A Decision Support Tool for the Pushback Rate Control of Airport Departures
Airport surface congestion control has the potential to mitigate the increase in taxi times and fuel burn at major airports. One possible class of congestion control strategies predicts the departure throughput, and recommends a rate at which to release aircraft pushbacks from the gate. This paper d...
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| author | Sandberg, Melanie J. Simaiakis, Ioannis Balakrishnan, Hamsa Reynolds, Thomas G. Hansman, Robert J., Jr. |
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| description | Airport surface congestion control has the potential to mitigate the increase in taxi times and fuel burn at major airports. One possible class of congestion control strategies predicts the departure throughput, and recommends a rate at which to release aircraft pushbacks from the gate. This paper describes the field-testing of these types of strategies at Boston Logan International Airport, focusing on the communication of the suggested rate to the air traffic controller, and additional support for its implementation. Two Android tablet computers were used for the field-tests; one to input the data and the other to display the recommended rate to the air traffic controllers. Two potential decision-support displays were tested: a rate control display that only presented a color-coded suggested pushback rate and a volume control display that provided additional support to the controllers on the number of aircraft that had called-ready and had been released. A survey of controllers showed that they had found the decision-support tool easy to use, especially the additional functionality that is provided by the aircraft volume control display. The field tests were also found to yield significant operational benefits showing that such a congestion control strategy could be effective in practice. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/968732022-09-29T19:10:03Z A Decision Support Tool for the Pushback Rate Control of Airport Departures Sandberg, Melanie J. Simaiakis, Ioannis Balakrishnan, Hamsa Reynolds, Thomas G. Hansman, Robert J., Jr. Lincoln Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Sandberg, Melanie J. Balakrishnan, Hamsa Reynolds, Thomas G. Hansman, Robert J., Jr. Airport surface congestion control has the potential to mitigate the increase in taxi times and fuel burn at major airports. One possible class of congestion control strategies predicts the departure throughput, and recommends a rate at which to release aircraft pushbacks from the gate. This paper describes the field-testing of these types of strategies at Boston Logan International Airport, focusing on the communication of the suggested rate to the air traffic controller, and additional support for its implementation. Two Android tablet computers were used for the field-tests; one to input the data and the other to display the recommended rate to the air traffic controllers. Two potential decision-support displays were tested: a rate control display that only presented a color-coded suggested pushback rate and a volume control display that provided additional support to the controllers on the number of aircraft that had called-ready and had been released. A survey of controllers showed that they had found the decision-support tool easy to use, especially the additional functionality that is provided by the aircraft volume control display. The field tests were also found to yield significant operational benefits showing that such a congestion control strategy could be effective in practice. United States. Federal Aviation Administration National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Award 0931843) 2015-05-01T18:08:08Z 2015-05-01T18:08:08Z 2014-05 2013-12 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 2168-2291 2168-2305 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/96873 Sandberg, Melanie, Ioannis Simaiakis, Hamsa Balakrishnan, Tom G. Reynolds, and R. John Hansman. “A Decision Support Tool for the Pushback Rate Control of Airport Departures.” IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems 44, no. 3 (June 2014): 416–421. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9591-3579 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8624-7041 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/THMS.2014.2305906 IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems 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 | Sandberg, Melanie J. Simaiakis, Ioannis Balakrishnan, Hamsa Reynolds, Thomas G. Hansman, Robert J., Jr. A Decision Support Tool for the Pushback Rate Control of Airport Departures |
| title | A Decision Support Tool for the Pushback Rate Control of Airport Departures |
| title_full | A Decision Support Tool for the Pushback Rate Control of Airport Departures |
| title_fullStr | A Decision Support Tool for the Pushback Rate Control of Airport Departures |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Decision Support Tool for the Pushback Rate Control of Airport Departures |
| title_short | A Decision Support Tool for the Pushback Rate Control of Airport Departures |
| title_sort | decision support tool for the pushback rate control of airport departures |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/96873 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9591-3579 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8624-7041 |
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