A diffusion approximation to a single airport queue

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

Volumn 33, Issue , 2013, Pages 227-237

  Lovell, David J ^a   Vlachou, Kleoniki ^a   Rabbani, Tarek ^b   Bayen, Alexandre ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b 109 McLaughlin Hall   (United States)

Author keywords

Aviation system performance; Delay; Diffusion; Finite element method; Fokker Planck equation; Kolmogorov forward equation; Queuing theory

Indexed keywords

AIRPORTS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; DIFFUSION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUMERICAL METHODS; QUEUEING THEORY; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

AVIATION SYSTEMS; CONTINUUM APPROXIMATION; CONTINUUM MODELING; DELAY; DIFFUSION APPROXIMATIONS; FORWARD EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; QUEUING THEORY;

FOKKER PLANCK EQUATION;

AIRPORT; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 84879504985     PISSN: 0968090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trc.2012.04.010     Document Type: Article

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