Since 1996, the National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR) and the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering of the Delft University (DUT/FAE) have been involved in a joint research project concerning the development and improvement of a so-called Advanced Surface Movement and Guidance/Control System (A-SMGCS). The purpose of A-SMGCS is to enhance airport ground movement efficiency while at least maintaining current levels of safety, in all weather conditions. The DUT/FAE contribution to the research project is focussed on the development of simulation tools for surface traffic movement and taxi-planning support tools for both on-line and off-line applications. With respect to the first topic, a simulator for airport surface traffic, named SIMAST, has already been developed. The objective of the planning support tools is to optimize the sequencing and schduling of airport surface traffic, such as to minimize delays and to reduce the number of stops during taxiing.
Planning and Simulation of Taxiing Aircraft Using Linear Programming
1998
198 pages
Report
No indication
English
Aeronautics , Air Transportation , Transportation Safety , Flight simulation , Taxiing , Airport planning , Airline operations , Flight training , Linear programming , Control systems , Air traffic control , Research projects , Safety , Optimization , Tables(Data) , Foreign technology , Advanced Surface Movement and Guidance/Control System(A-SMGCS)