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Metron Aviation Research Wins Award at International Air Transportation Conference
Dulles, Virginia—June 11, 2010—The 4th International Conference on Research in Air Transportation (ICRAT 2010) named Metron Aviation’s research paper Dynamic Allocation and Benefit Assessment of NextGen Flow Corridors, as the Future Concepts and Innovative Ideas Best-of–Track. The paper, authored by Metron Aviation’s Ali Zadeh, Ph.D, Arash Yousefi, Ph.D., and Ali Tafazzoli, Ph.D., proposes a comprehensive methodology for design and evaluation of flow corridors – a new class of airspace within NextGen – to deliver higher traffic throughput and increase airspace capacity. Additionally, a benefit assessment was performed using NAS-wide simulation by comparing efficiency gained, against extra distance traveled when joining the corridor network. Authors show that much of the overall benefit may be observed by creating very few corridors.
“This award is a great honor and another example of the NAS operational optimization and research expertise of the Metron Aviation team,” said Jim Gaughan, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Advanced Research and Engineering. “Metron Aviation’s NextGen research and conceptualization will enhance the ability for aircraft to fly their preferred trajectories and ultimately reduce delays, minimize fuel burn and optimize safety during high-capacity conditions.”
ICRAT 2010 also selected a Metron Aviation co-authored paper to be presented, Throughput/Complexity Tradeoffs for Routing Traffic in the Presence of Dynamic Weather, co-authored by Jimmy Krozel Ph.D. in conjunction with Applied Mathematics & Statistics at Stony Brook University’s Joseph S. B. Mitchell, University of Helsinki’s Computer Science department member Anne Paakko and Helsinki Institute for Information Technology’s Valentin Polishhcuk. The paper presents efficient algorithms for computing trajectories for routing multiple aircraft avoiding a set of static or dynamic obstacles (e.g., hazardous weather cells).
ICRAT is a forum for researchers within the air transportation field to share their work, expand their professional network and gain new knowledge and inspiration. ICRAT 2010 was organized by the FAA, EUROCONTROL and Budapest University of Technology & Economics.
About Metron Aviation
Founded in 1995, Metron Aviation pioneered the advancement of Air Traffic Flow Management (ATFM), working with the FAA to develop the industry’s first Collaborative Decision Making (CDM) platform for optimizing system-wide traffic flow. Metron Aviation provides concept engineering, advanced research, software development, traffic flow management, surface operations management, airspace design and environmental analysis solutions to the global aviation industry. Metron Aviation fuses advanced science and mathematics with unparalleled subject-matter expertise to turn groundbreaking Air Traffic Management (ATM) research concepts into next-generation operational capabilities. Metron Aviation customers include the FAA, NAV CANADA, NASA, ATNS, FedEx, Air Canada, Memphis International Airport, Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines, American Airlines, Airservices Australia and many more. For more information, please visit www.metronaviation.com.
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