A queuing model of the airport departure process

Transportation Science

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 94-109

  Simaiakis, Ioannis ^a   Balakrishnan, Hamsa ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aircraft departure processes; Airport operations; Surface congestion; Taxi out times

Indexed keywords

AIRPORTS; QUEUEING NETWORKS; QUEUEING THEORY; TAXICABS; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS;

AIRCRAFT DEPARTURE; AIRPORT OPERATIONS; DEPARTURE PROCESS; INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT; MODELING PROCEDURE; PREDICTIVE CAPABILITIES; TAXI-OUT TIMES; TIME DISTRIBUTION;

FIGHTER AIRCRAFT;

EID: 84957712087     PISSN: 00411655     EISSN: 15265447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/trsc.2015.0603     Document Type: Article

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