The objective of this project is to improve coordination between tower operation, airport operation and aircraft operators at London Heathrow. Integrated modelling of airport operations will combine interacting processes of arrival sequencing, runway allocation, land sequence compliance and stand allocation previously studied independently. This project aims to take advantage of the relationships between these processes to develop hybrid search methods for the integrated model that perform better than approaches based on independent consideration of the constituent problems.

Project staff and support

Stanislava Armstrong (Postgraduate Associate, Nottingham)
Jason Atkin (Academic supervisor, Nottingham)
Edmund Burke (Academic co-supervisor, Nottingham)
John Greenwood (Industrial supervisor, NATS)
Tim Boxer (Technology Translator, Industrial Mathematics KTN)

This project is being carried out at Nottingham, in conjunction with NATS. It is supported by an EPSRC industrial CASE award. Start date: October 2009; duration: 3.5 years.