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  • A Simulation Study to Determine Optimal Shipping Strategy

    PI Massoud Bazargan

    The purpose of the project is to develop a simulation that can serve as means for choosing the optimal shipping option based on given criteria.

    This project comes from AAR Airlift, a maintenance supply chain organization that frequently sends packages overseas. The ultimate goal is to develop two separate deliverables for AAR Airlift airline efficient use of available resources and reduce flight delays. The project uses simulation for one full day of an airline's operations. The simulation model developed can identify the number of delays as well as the total time of delays that may occur throughout the system due to shortage of maintenance workforce.

    Categories: Faculty-Staff

  • Development of an Aviation Weather Database Highlighting Weather Encounters

    PI Massoud Bazargan

    The project team, which includes the FAA's Civil Aerospace Medical Institute, Clemson University, and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, interviewed 26 General Aviation (GA) pilots over a 25-month period.

    The hope is that a list of items and/or data points that investigators can use to gain a better understanding of what happened within a particular weather incident/accident can be generated.

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  • GA Airport funding strategies

    PI Massoud Bazargan

    The purpose of this study was to investigate the current financial environment of publicly owned and operated general aviation airports, and to develop an outlook for future potential.

    The study focused on basic airport demographic data and the views of airport managers of GA airports regarding their facility's current financial situation, access to finding resources, state, local, and private sector, current fuel handling activity, T-hangar vacancies, other concepts for enhancing revenue, and attitudes toward attaining financial self-sufficiency.

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  • Integration of Small Aircraft Transportation Systems (SATS) into General Aviation

    PI Massoud Bazargan

    Conducted operational and simulation approaches to identify potential bottlenecks and examine future expansion strategies for airports by integrating SATS with GA.

    Categories: Faculty-Staff

  • LAX Tow Tugs Feasibility Study

    PI Massoud Bazargan

    Currently, United Airlines does not have any tow tugs at LAX and uses only tractors with pull bars.

    These are not suited for the lengthy tows. Due to high cost of these tow tugs a study is needed to identify economic viability of purchasing these tow tugs. In particular, the airline would like to identify metrics such NPV, payback, and IRR determined for a period of 5 years after buying these tow tugs.

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  • Manpower Planning for Maintenance Crew at SFO

    PI Massoud Bazargan

    The objective of this project is to optimize the use of maintenance manpower at San Francisco International Airport for efficient use of available resources and reduce flight delays.

    The project uses simulation for one full day of an airline's operations. The simulation model developed can identify the number of delays as well as the total time of delays that may occur throughout the system due to shortage of maintenance workforce

    Categories: Faculty-Staff

  • NextGen Task G 4D FMS TBO Demonstration Benefits Analyses

    PI Massoud Bazargan

    The goal of the project was to leverage existing technology and Flight Management System (FMS) capabilities as a starting point to define standards and requirements for trajectory exchange, time of arrival control, and other building blocks.

    The analyses focuses on benefits of these standards and requirements.

    Categories: Faculty-Staff

  • Statistical Analysis for General Aviation Accidents

    PI Massoud Bazargan

    The identification of causal factors for problems within a complex system present a variety of challenges to the investigator.

    This project will proceed by considering existing data on GA accidents, applying data mining methods to highlight patterns, applying mathematical and statistical methods to model relationships, and finally to employ simulation to test, refine and verify results.

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  • Tow Tug Simulation Feasibility Study

    PI Massoud Bazargan

    In this study we conduct a feasibility study using simulation for AirTran Airways at their hub in Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport (ATL). This study pertains to using super-tug to transport aircraft to and from the airline's maintenance facility.

    The purchasing price for these super-tugs is around a quarter of a million dollars. This study attempts to investigate the possibility of reducing costs through saving jet fuel. This study adopts simulation to analyze the annual savings by studying the numbers needed, as well as the utilization and operation cost for these super-tugs. The results are very interesting, enabling the airline to clearly evaluate the cost and benefits of purchasing new super-tugs.

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  • The Rise and Fall of the Veterans' Airlines

    PI Alan Bender

    This is an investigation into a practically unknown chapter in U.S. airline history: the advent of a brand new breed of airlines in the aftermath of World War II, mom-and-pop discounters immensely popular with the general public but very threatening to the established airlines and to the federal regulatory system.

    Postwar America was a land full of opportunity. Economically and socially, in both industry and education, it was the dawn of a new era. But such was not the case in the U.S. airline industry. New technology meant faster, bigger, safer, more comfortable aircraft, yet traveling by air remained unaffordable to the vast majority of Americans. This is the story of opportunity lost due to rampant government protectionism and powerful vested interests. Utilizing historical materials from the National Air and Space Museum, National Archives, Library of Congress, four presidential libraries, and various oral history collections, a book is being prepared and written that documents the history of these long forgotten - yet historically very significant - airline companies that truly pioneered affordable airline transportation in America.

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