Network Congestion Control of Airport Surface Operations
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Author(s)
Khadilkar, Harshad Dilip
Balakrishnan, Hamsa
Date Issued
March 2014
Journal
Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics
Publisher
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Citation
Khadilkar, Harshad, and Hamsa Balakrishnan. “Network Congestion Control of Airport Surface Operations.” Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics 37, no. 3 (May 2014): 933–940.
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Author's final manuscript
Abstract
The reduction of taxi-out times at airports has the potential to substantially reduce delays and fuel consumption on the airport surface, and to improve the air quality in surrounding communities. The taxiway and runway systems at an airport determine its maximum possible departure throughput, or the number of aircraft departures that it can handle per unit time. Current air traffic control procedures allow aircraft to push from their gates and enter the taxiway system as soon as they are ready. As this pushback rate approaches the maximum departure throughput of the airport, runway queues grow longer and surface congestion increases, resulting in increased taxi-out times.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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DOI of Published Version
https://doi.org/10.2514/1.57850
