A Study of Aircraft Taxi Performance for Enhancing Airport Surface Traffic Control

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 39-53

  Cheng, Victor H L ^a   Sharma, Vivek ^a,b   Foyle, David C ^c  

^a OPTIMAL SYNTHESIS INC   (United States)

^b TITAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Active runway crossing; Air traffic management; Aircraft taxi control; Nonlinear control; Runway incursion; Surface movement

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012012131     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/6979.928715     Document Type: Article

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