Cooperative Control for Ground Traffic at Airports

Felipe Maia Galvão França (1) , Felix Mora-Camino (2)

1 COPPE-UFRJ - Instituto Alberto Luiz Coimbra de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa de Engenharia
2 ENAC - Ecole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile

With the sustained increase in air transportation, resulting in increased operational costs, potential danger with conflictive traffic conditions and delays for passengers and airlines, ground traffic has become a critical issue for many airports. In this communication the ground traffic at an airport is considered to be composed of three dependent flows: aircraft, passenger vehicles and servicing vehicles. It is assumed in this study that each type of vehicles belongs to a common pool which attends every arriving or departing aircraft. The objective here is to propose a global control structure based on cooperation between the different agents responsible for the management of each fleet to reduce overall aircraft traffic delays at airside.

Domaines: Sciences de l'ingénieur [physics]; Automatique / Robotique

Felipe Maia Galvão França, Felix Mora-Camino. Cooperative Control for Ground Traffic at Airports. Computational Models, Software Engineering, and Advanced Technologies in Air Transportation, IGI Global, pp.57-70, 2010, ⟨10.4018/978-1-60566-800-0.ch004⟩. ⟨hal-02201602⟩