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GA Airport funding strategies
PI Massoud Bazargan
The purpose of this study was to investigate the current financial environment of publicly owned and operated general aviation airports, and to develop an outlook for future potential.
The study focused on basic airport demographic data and the views of airport managers of GA airports regarding their facility's current financial situation, access to finding resources, state, local, and private sector, current fuel handling activity, T-hangar vacancies, other concepts for enhancing revenue, and attitudes toward attaining financial self-sufficiency.Categories: Faculty-Staff
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Integration of Small Aircraft Transportation Systems (SATS) into General Aviation
PI Massoud Bazargan
Conducted operational and simulation approaches to identify potential bottlenecks and examine future expansion strategies for airports by integrating SATS with GA.
Categories: Faculty-Staff
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LAX Tow Tugs Feasibility Study
PI Massoud Bazargan
Currently, United Airlines does not have any tow tugs at LAX and uses only tractors with pull bars.
These are not suited for the lengthy tows. Due to high cost of these tow tugs a study is needed to identify economic viability of purchasing these tow tugs. In particular, the airline would like to identify metrics such NPV, payback, and IRR determined for a period of 5 years after buying these tow tugs.Categories: Faculty-Staff
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Manpower Planning for Maintenance Crew at SFO
PI Massoud Bazargan
The objective of this project is to optimize the use of maintenance manpower at San Francisco International Airport for efficient use of available resources and reduce flight delays.
The project uses simulation for one full day of an airline's operations. The simulation model developed can identify the number of delays as well as the total time of delays that may occur throughout the system due to shortage of maintenance workforceCategories: Faculty-Staff
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NextGen Task G 4D FMS TBO Demonstration Benefits Analyses
PI Massoud Bazargan
The goal of the project was to leverage existing technology and Flight Management System (FMS) capabilities as a starting point to define standards and requirements for trajectory exchange, time of arrival control, and other building blocks.
The analyses focuses on benefits of these standards and requirements.Categories: Faculty-Staff
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Statistical Analysis for General Aviation Accidents
PI Massoud Bazargan
The identification of causal factors for problems within a complex system present a variety of challenges to the investigator.
This project will proceed by considering existing data on GA accidents, applying data mining methods to highlight patterns, applying mathematical and statistical methods to model relationships, and finally to employ simulation to test, refine and verify results.Categories: Faculty-Staff
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Tow Tug Simulation Feasibility Study
PI Massoud Bazargan
In this study we conduct a feasibility study using simulation for AirTran Airways at their hub in Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport (ATL). This study pertains to using super-tug to transport aircraft to and from the airline's maintenance facility.
The purchasing price for these super-tugs is around a quarter of a million dollars. This study attempts to investigate the possibility of reducing costs through saving jet fuel. This study adopts simulation to analyze the annual savings by studying the numbers needed, as well as the utilization and operation cost for these super-tugs. The results are very interesting, enabling the airline to clearly evaluate the cost and benefits of purchasing new super-tugs.Categories: Faculty-Staff
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2NextGen Task Q: Implementation of NextGen Air Traffic Management system. Airborne Execution of Flow Strategies (AEFS). Modeling, Simulation and Data Analysis
PI Vitaly Guzhva
We work with Metron Aviation, Lockheed Martin, Mosaic ATM and CSSI in development of AEFS concept, designing Modeling and Simulation, collecting data and conducting sensitivity and statistical analyses for concept evaluation.
Airborne Execution of Flow Strategies (AEFS) promotes increased collaboration among National Airspace System (NAS) stakeholders. AEFS recognizes the following current problem: Air Traffic Controllers are aware of the overall air traffic and flight conditions, but lack the capability to collaboratively communicate handling preferences based on flight operators’ business needs, whereas flight operators have limited awareness of Air Traffic Control (ATC) constraints and their potential impacts on flights. By promoting methods to increase collaboration between flight operators and ATC, AEFS targets improvements in Traffic Flow Management (TFM) efficiency, situational awareness among stakeholders, and flexibility in the usage of the NAS.
The FAA conducted research and development of the AEFS concept at the Florida NextGen Test Bed (FTB) at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) in Daytona FL. The research team from ERAU, Metron Aviation, Lockheed Martin, Mosaic ATM, and CSSI demonstrated the AEFS operational scenarios and corresponding use cases through laboratory demonstration as well as Modeling and Simulation (M&S).
The research team conducted two M&S demonstrations: one with Future Concept Team (FCT) members as active participants in the demonstration, and second with FAA stakeholders. Airborne/Airborne; Airborne/Pre-departure; Pre-departure/Airborne; and Pre-departure/pre-departure use cases were recorded and demonstrated to the participants including one airborne/airborne use case with Trial Planning functionality. In all of the use cases, DAL flights originally had default priority 5 that was changed to the highest priority 1 for one of the flights about 10 minutes before that flight would cross the freeze horizon. Based on stakeholder feedback received during the first M&S Demonstration, the FAA demonstrated an additional use case for the second demonstration where one of the flights was instead assigned the lowest priority of 10 to observe the results.
All use cases clearly demonstrated that AEFS would act based on assigned priority reducing sequencing delay for the High Priority Flights (HPF) and increasing it for Low Priority Flights LPF(s). In most cases, more than two flights were involved: a delay from an HPF was distributed among several LPFs, or by increasing delay for an LPF, several higher priority flights were able to decrease their delays. Moreover, the demonstration showed that AEFS successfully altered the arrival sequence based on assigned priorities. Both M&S demonstrations received positive feedback from key stakeholders indicating it was helpful in providing a clearer understanding of the concept.
Categories: Faculty-Staff
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NextGen Task J: Implementation of NextGen Air Traffic Management system. Integrated Airport Initiative. Benefit-Cost Analysis of Aircraft Arrival Management Systems (AAMS)
PI Vitaly Guzhva
CO-I Ahmed Abdelghany
The main task was to evaluate AAMS implemented at CLT (with US Airways) and MSP (with Delta Airlines) and quantify its costs and benefits.
We collected six months of data before AAMS implementation and 6 months of data after the implementation, conducted statistical analysis and delivered the cost benefit analysis to the FAA.Categories: Faculty-Staff
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Space Operations in the NAS: Analysis of Impacts to the Aviation Industry
The basic goal of the research is to understand impacts to aviation stakeholders of the National Airspace System (NAS) due to space launch activities. The focus of the research is to study impacts to general aviation (GA), particularly with respect to airports and airport users, near and around Cape Canaveral, FL. Further, several avenues will be assessed to determine what aspects of GA are impacted, where, when, how, and why. Data will be collected and analyzed in alternate methods other than the originally-proposed simulation and modeling. As an aside, per FAA input and following review of extant literature, impacts to GA have not been adequately researched. Until recently, the industry and the FAA have largely focused on impacts to airlines (Tinoco, Eudy, Cannon 2020). As a result, we believe this effort will lead to interesting outcomes and fill a much-needed gap in the literature.
Categories: Faculty-Staff
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