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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Main Authors: Sandberg, Melanie J., Simaiakis, Ioannis, Balakrishnan, Hamsa, Reynolds, Thomas G., Hansman, Robert J., Jr.
Other Authors: Lincoln Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/96873
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9591-3579
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8624-7041