Demonstration of reduced airport congestion through pushback rate control

•This paper describes field tests of a congestion control strategy at Boston Airport.•The approach meters pushbacks to reduce the time that flights spend with engines on.•The field trials demonstrated that significant benefits were possible.•During eight 4-h tests, fuel burn was estimated to reduce...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Transportation research. Part A, Policy and practice Policy and practice, 2014-08, Vol.66, p.251-267
Hauptverfasser:	Simaiakis, Ioannis, Khadilkar, Harshad, Balakrishnan, Hamsa, Reynolds, Tom G., Hansman, R. John
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Air traffic management Air transportation Aircraft components Aircraft fuels Airport runways Airport surface operations control Airports Congestion Departure taxi-out processes Gates Strategy Taxiing
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