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Manufacturing Methods for a Solid Rocket Motor Propelling a Small, Fast Flight Vehicle
(2019-06-05)A gap exists in the design space for aircraft mass and speed: no flight vehicles with a mass of less than 10 kg and speed greater than 100 m/s are available. The small, fast "Firefly" flight vehicle is being developed to ... -
Market and Infrastructure Analysis of Future Air Cargo Demand in China
(2003-11-17)This paper describes an analysis of future air cargo demand in China and its implications for system infrastructure. By extrapolating current trends and evaluating government policies, China is projected to achieve ... -
Mitigating Complexity in Air Traffic Control: The Role of Structure-Based Abstractions
(2008-08)Cognitive complexity is a limiting factor on the capacity and efficiency of the Air Traffic Control (ATC) system. A multi-faceted cognitive ethnography approach shows that structure, defined as the physical and informational ... -
Model Development for a Comparison of VTOL and STOL Electric Aircraft Using Geometric Programming
(2019-09-04)There is widespread interest in the use of electric aircraft for short missions in and around urban areas. Most of the vehicle configurations proposed for these missions are electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) ... -
Modeling Changes in Connectivity at U.S. Airports: A Small Community Perspective
(2013-06-11)There currently exists no industry-standard model for measuring an airport's level of connectivity to the global air transportation network. This discussion paper introduces the Airport Connectivity Quality Index (ACQI)--a ... -
Modeling Performance and Noise of Advanced Operational Procedures for Current and Future Aircraft
(2017-02-06)Increasing concerns regarding aircraft noise has encouraged the push to reduce noise via operational adjustments. The objective here is thus to expand analysis capabilities to enable modeling of the impact on aircraft noise ... -
Modeling the Air Traffic Controller's Cognitive Projection Process
(2006-11-20)Cognitive projection enables the operator of a supervisory control system, such as air traffic control, to use predicted future behavior of the system to make decisions about if and how to control the system. New procedures ... -
Modeling the Effects of Aircraft Flight Track Variability on Community Noise Exposure
(2017-07-20)The implementation of Performance Based Navigation (PBN) routes across the National Airspace System (NAS) has caused a significant concentration of flight tracks. This flight track concentration also creates a concentration ... -
A Multi-Objective, Decomposition-Based Algorithm Design Methodology and its Application to Runway Operations Planning
(2004-09)Significant delays and resulting environmental impacts are commonly observed during departure operations at major US and European airports. One approach for mitigating airport congestion and delays is to exercise tactical ... -
Non-stop versus connecting air services: Airfares, costs, and consumers’ willingness to pay
(2019-06-28)Airlines provide both non-stop and connecting services. The airfare for each service type is determined largely by the willingness to pay (WTP) of passengers and the costs for airlines. This paper estimates the impact ... -
Observation and Analysis of Departure Operations at Boston Logan International Airport
(2000-11)The Departure Planner (DP) is a concept for a decision-aiding tool that is aimed at improving the departure operations performance at major congested airports. In order to support the development of the DP tool, the flow ... -
Observation and Analysis of Departure Planning Operations at Boston Logan International Airport
(2011-10-14)The Departure Planner (DP) is a concept for a decision-aiding tool that is aimed at improving the departure operations performance at major congested airports. In order to support the development of the DP tool, the flow ... -
Observations and Potential Impacts of Regional Jet Operating Trends
(2003-07)Airlines are increasingly using regional jets to better match aircraft size to high value demand markets, and reduce labor costs. This has been especially important due to the increased pressure on the industry following ... -
Opportunities for Reducing Surface Emissions through Airport Surface Movement Optimization
(2011-10-19)Aircraft taxiing on the surface contribute significantly to the fuel burn and emissions at airports. This report is an overview of PARTNER’s Project 21, which tries to identify promising opportunities for surface ... -
Opportunities to Enhance Air Emergency Medical Service Scale through New Vehicles and Operations
(2018-07-10)Air Emergency Medical Service (Air EMS) provides unique and important medical trans- port capabilities to society. Air EMS can move patients or live organs more rapidly than surface modes over long distances or congested ... -
A Performance Comparison of eSTOL and eVTOL Aircraft
(2021-08-05)