TY - GEN
T1 - Coordination of scheduling decisions in the management of airport airspace and taxiway operations
AU - Samà, Marcella
AU - D'Ariano, Andrea
AU - Corman, Francesco
AU - Pacciarelli, Dario
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - This paper addresses the real-time problem of coordinating aircraft ground and air operations in an airport area. At a congested airport, airborne decisions are related to take-off and landing operations, while ground (taxiway) decisions consist of scheduling aircraft movements between the gates and the runways. Since the runways are the initial/terminal points of both decisions, coordinated actions have a great potential to improve the overall performance. However, in the traffic control practice the different decisions are taken by different controllers, at least in large airports. Weak coordination may result in long queues at the runways, with increasing aircraft delays and energy consumption. This paper investigates models, methods and policies for improving the coordination between taxiway scheduling and airborne scheduling. The performance of a solution is measured in terms of delay and travel time, the latter being related to the energy consumption of an aircraft. A microscopic mathematical formulation is adopted to achieve reliable solutions. Exact and heuristic methods have been analysed in combination with the different policies, based on practical-size instances from Amsterdam Schiphol airport, in the Netherlands. Computational experience shows that good quality solutions can be found within limited time, compatible with real-time operations.
AB - This paper addresses the real-time problem of coordinating aircraft ground and air operations in an airport area. At a congested airport, airborne decisions are related to take-off and landing operations, while ground (taxiway) decisions consist of scheduling aircraft movements between the gates and the runways. Since the runways are the initial/terminal points of both decisions, coordinated actions have a great potential to improve the overall performance. However, in the traffic control practice the different decisions are taken by different controllers, at least in large airports. Weak coordination may result in long queues at the runways, with increasing aircraft delays and energy consumption. This paper investigates models, methods and policies for improving the coordination between taxiway scheduling and airborne scheduling. The performance of a solution is measured in terms of delay and travel time, the latter being related to the energy consumption of an aircraft. A microscopic mathematical formulation is adopted to achieve reliable solutions. Exact and heuristic methods have been analysed in combination with the different policies, based on practical-size instances from Amsterdam Schiphol airport, in the Netherlands. Computational experience shows that good quality solutions can be found within limited time, compatible with real-time operations.
KW - Air Traffic Control
KW - Alternative Graph
KW - Ground Operations
KW - Intelligent Decision Support
KW - Schedule Optimization
KW - Scheduling Policies
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U2 - 10.1016/j.trpro.2017.05.015
DO - 10.1016/j.trpro.2017.05.015
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85020507529
T3 - Transportation Research Procedia
SP - 246
EP - 262
BT - Papers Selected for the 22nd International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory Chicago, Illinois, USA, 24-26 July, 2017
A2 - Mahmassani, Hani
A2 - Nie, Yu (Marco)
A2 - Smilowitz, Karen
PB - Elsevier
T2 - 22nd International Symposium on Transportation & Traffic Theory
Y2 - 24 July 2017 through 26 July 2017
ER -