Air Transportation—Operations and Management

Dear Colleagues,

Future air traffic demand requires air traffic providers, operators, and researchers, implementing new procedures and technologies to handle the dense air traffic network. The bottlenecks in capacity, which are already partly present, challenge air traffic control on landside, ground, and airside. The economic pressure further forces air traffic stakeholders to sustainably increase the transport efficiency considering upcoming societal and environmental issues without a deterioration of the safety level. Inefficiencies indicating a high improvement potential have been identified in the time-based operations of aircraft, of interdependencies aircraft and passenger trajectories, economic and ecology impact of air traffic, network operations and handling of uncertainties, disturbances, and disruptions in the aviation system. Current approaches will provide solutions, such as resilient air transport network management, green airport taxi procedures, optimal control of scarce resources (e.g., slots, runway or apron capacity, fleet allocation), and mitigation of impact of severe weather conditions. Focusing aircraft operations, new optimization algorithms deal with time based trajectory management considering conflicting goals of increased efficiency and environmental awareness, noise abatement strategies, efficient air space design and increased target levels of safety. This collection invites papers that present solutions for the areas of air traffic operations and economics. Of interest are papers that address solutions to deal with challenges of all air traffic stakeholders. In particular, the collection wants to focus on dynamic airspace management, flight centered operations, turnaround management, air transport performance (e.g., new metrics, inter-airport coordination), trajectory management, eco-efficient aircraft operations (e.g., formation flight, contrail avoidance), airport management (e.g., integrated approaches, pre-tactical planning), delay mitigation in the transport network, and holistic optimization approaches. Innovative solutions are being sought to enable versatile investigations of the air transport domain and provide multi-disciplinary approaches.

Dr. Michael Schultz
Dr. Judith Rosenow
Guest Editors

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