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Evaluating Simulation Tools to Study the Impact of Space Shuttle Launch on the National Air Transportation System
PI Ahmed Abdelghany
The objective of this project is to provide a comparative study to evaluate the functionalities of the available airspace simulation tools.
In particular, the objective is to evaluate how these available simulation tools can be used to capture the impact of space shuttle launch on the National Air Transportation System. This impact could be in the form of flight delays, flight cancellations, trajectory amendments, etc.Categories: Faculty-Staff
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Volusia County Transportation Challenge: A Commentary Report on Volusia County's Long Range Transportation Plan
PI Ahmed Abdelghany
The objective of this project is to evaluate the long-term (5-10 years) transportation plan of Volusia county.
The plan includes the list of all transportation construction projects that are proposed by the county. The objective is to study these projects together with their validation study and verify their importance for the county.Categories: Faculty-Staff
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Aircraft Boarding Strategies
PI Massoud Bazargan
Airlines today employ various strategies to cut costs and become lean and efficient.
One of the ways that this can be achieved is by improving the boarding process since airplanes only make money while they are in the air. This paper uses simulation approach to deal specifically with the boarding strategies in use today by the major airlines. To properly simulate the boarding process, the simulation model accounts for passenger interferences (aisle & seat), the time it takes to stow away baggage, and the passenger arrival rate through the main cabin door. We applied our simulation model to study the AirTran Boeing 737-700 short haul aircraft. We looked at five major boarding strategies from random to the customary back to front and the results are very encouraging. Our analyses identifies that the arrival rate has an effect on the total boarding time and that the Reverse Pyramid and Window middle Aisle (WilMA) were among the efficient boarding strategies.Categories: Faculty-Staff
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Aircraft Replacement Strategy
PI Massoud Bazargan
The analyses of this study attempts to address:- How the cost data relevant to this study, such as aircraft market values, lease prices, operations and maintenance costs were compiled and analyzed as the airlines do not or cannot provide them.
- Identify aircraft replacement strategies for the airlines and explore their differences according to their business models.
- Compare and contrast the recommended and current aircraft replacement strategies for the airlines.
- Identify decisions with respect to lease and/or buy for the airlines and how sensitive these strategies are to changes to aircraft values and lease prices.
- Explore future fleet diversity for the airlines and how sensitive these strategies are to their existing and on-order fleet.
- How the fixed costs pertaining to aircraft buy and/or lease compare and contrast with variable costs such as operations and maintenance over the planning horizon.
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A Simulation Approach to Manpower Planning at Continental Airlines
PI Massoud Bazargan
This research relates to the development of a computerized line maintenance simulation model for strategic manpower planning at Continental Airlines for one of their major maintenance stations at Newark airport.
The simulation model provides guidelines to the development of enhanced staffing models and a better understanding of resource requirements on a daily basis. The proposed simulation model could be used as a tool to support the management of the line maintenance department in solving various capacity planning issues related to the manpower requirement and scheduling. The recent capabilities of simulation modeling, namely optimization modeling is adopted in search of enhanced shift schedule of technicians that would improve the efficiency of the existing system.Categories: Faculty-Staff
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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
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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.Categories: Faculty-Staff
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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.Categories: Faculty-Staff
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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.
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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.Categories: Faculty-Staff
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