Title :
Software tools to support research on airport departure planning
Author :
Carr, Francis ; Evans, Antony ; Feron, Eric ; Clarke, John-Paul
Author_Institution :
Int. Centerfor Air Transp., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
A simple, portable and useful collection of software tools has been developed for the analysis of airport surface traffic. The tools are based on a flexible and robust traffic-flow model, and include calibration, validation and simulation functionality for this model. Several different interfaces have been developed to help promote usage of these tools, including a portable Matlab™ implementation of the basic algorithms; a web-based interface which provides online access to automated analyses of airport traffic based on a database of real-world operations data which covers over 250 US airports over a 5-year period; and an interactive simulation-based tool currently in use as part of a college-level educational module. More advanced applications for airport departure traffic include taxi-time prediction and evaluation of "windowing" congestion control.
Keywords :
Web sites; aerospace computing; air traffic; air traffic control; airports; planning; software tools; user interfaces; 5 year; US airports; airport departure planning research support software tools; airport departure traffic; airport surface traffic analysis; automated analyses online access; college-level educational modules; flexible/robust traffic-flow models; interactive simulation-based tools; model calibration/validation/simulation; real-world operations database; software tool interfaces; taxi-time prediction; web-based interfaces; windowing congestion control evaluation; Air traffic control; Airports; Algorithm design and analysis; Calibration; Computer languages; Databases; Mathematical model; Robustness; Software tools; Traffic control;
Conference_Titel :
Digital Avionics Systems Conference, 2002. Proceedings. The 21st
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7367-7
DOI :
10.1109/DASC.2002.1067900
