A Study of Tradeoffs in Scheduling Terminal-Area Operations

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 96, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2081-2095

  Lee, Hanbong ^a   Balakrishnan, Hamsa ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Air traffic management; air transportation systems; terminal area scheduling and optimization; tradeoff evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008548491     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: 15582256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2008.2006145     Document Type: Article

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