Browsing Air Transportation Research by Title
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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
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A Petri Net Framework for the Representation and Analysis of Aircraft Turnaround Operations
(2019-05-20)Aircraft turnaround operations is a key determinant of both airline and airport performance. Airlines incur both direct and indirect costs from poor on-time departure performance, particularly when these delays propagate ... -
Pilot Perception and Use of ADS-B Traffic and Weather Services (TIS-B & FIS-B)
(2014-10-08)Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast (ADS-B) is a central component of the NextGen air traffic control modernization program. It is intended to improve traffic surveillance capabilities by sharing accurate aircraft ... -
Preliminary Analysis of Potential ADS-B User Benefits for Hawaiian Helicopter Air Tour Operators
(2007-06)ADS-B ground infrastructure is currently planned to be installed in Hawaii between 2010 and 2013 as part of the National Airspace System (NAS) wide implementation of ADS-B. Current plans call for ADS-B coverage to be focused ... -
Preliminary Design and Evaluation of Portable Electronic Flight Progress Strips
(2002-10)There has been growing interest in using electronic alternatives to the paper Flight Progress Strip (FPS) for air traffic control. However, most research has been centered on radar-based control environments, and has not ... -
Preliminary Development and Flight Trials of a Cruise Altitude and Speed Optimization Decision Support Tool
(2018-10-11)A cruise altitude and speed optimization decision support tool, based on the concept of a minimum cost altitude tunnel, was developed to aid flight crew and dispatcher situational awareness and decision-making in vertical ... -
Public Funding of Airport Incentives: The Efficacy of the Small Community Air Service Development Grant (SCASDG) Program
(2014-01-08)As U.S. airlines began to restrict available domestic capacity at smaller airports in 2008 as a result of higher fuel prices and an economic downturn, these airports have increasingly started to rely on incentive ... -
Queuing Model for Taxi-Out Time Estimation
(2001-09)Flights incur a large percentage of their delays on the ground during the departure process between their scheduled departure from the gate and takeoff. Because of the large uncertainties associated with them, these ... -
Recommended Practices for Human Factors Evaluation Development Process for Advanced Avionics
(2001-07)Advanced avionic systems are currently being developed for use in general aviation aircraft. The avionics include both primary flight displays and multi-functional displays. In order to support the human factors development ... -
Resolution of Conflicts Involving Many Aircraft via Semidefinite Programming
(1999-04)Aircraft conflict detection and resolution is currently attracting the interest of many air transportation service providers and is concerned with the following question: Given a set of airborne aircraft and their intended ... -
Robust Decision-Support Tools for Airport Surface Traffic
(2004-02)Forecasts of departure demand are one of the driving inputs to tactical decision-support tools (DSTs) for airport surface traffic. While there are well-known results on average- or worst-case forecast uncertainty, it is ... -
Safety Considerations for Operation of Different Classes of UAVs in the NAS
(AIAA, 2004-09-20)Recognizing the significant effort underway to integrate UAV operations in the NAS, a preliminary hazard analysis was conducted for two critical hazards of UAV operation. Models were developed to describe UAV ground impact ... -
Safety Considerations for Operation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in the National Airspace System
(2006-11-21)There is currently a broad effort underway in the United States and internationally by several organizations to craft regulations enabling the safe operation of UAVs in the NAS. Current federal regulations governing unmanned ... -
Safety Considerations in Emerging Electric Aircraft Architectures
(2018-10-11)Safety and certification considerations which impact the design of an emerging new class of small, electric aircraft were investigated. Based on an assessment of the different emerging aircraft designs, vehicles were grouped ... -
Scalability and Evolutionary Dynamics of Air Transportation Networks in the United States
(2007-09-21)With the growing demand for air transportation and the limited ability to increase capacity at key points in the air transportation system, there are concerns that, in the future, the system will not scale to meet demand. ... -
Scalability of the Air Transportation System and Development of Multi-Airport Systems: A Worldwide Perspective
(2008-06)With the growing demand for air transportation and the limited ability to increase capacity at some key points in the air transportation system, there are concerns that in the future the system will not scale to meet demand. ...