Optimizing pushback decisions to valuate airport surface surveillance information

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 180-192

  Burgain, Pierrick ^a   Pinon, Olivia J ^b   Feron, Eric ^b   Clarke, John Paul ^b   Mavris, Dimitri N ^b  

^a Capital One   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Airport departure operations; collaborative decision making (CDM); information value; optimization; surface surveillance

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; AIRPORT RUNWAYS; DECISION MAKING; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MONITORING; OPTIMIZATION; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

AIRPORT SURFACE SURVEILLANCE; COLLABORATIVE DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION VALUE; INTELLIGENT OPERATOR; INTERMEDIATE CAPACITY; LIMITED INFORMATION; SURFACE SURVEILLANCE; SURVEILLANCE INFORMATION;

AIRPORT SECURITY;

EID: 84857786267     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2011.2166388     Document Type: Article

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