1st Symposium Papers and Presentations

Autonomous, unmanned and remotely piloted aircraft systems and emerging operations

An Evaluation of UTM ConOps for Drone Deliveries: From Pre-Planned Air Corridors to Dynamic 4D Trajectories

Authors: Lishuai Li, Xinyu He, Shuangxia Bai, Zewen Wang, Bangyan Zhang and Yinian Mao
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20058194

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Optimization-Guided Exploration of Advanced Air Mobility Congestion Management Strategies with Stochastic Demands

Authors: Haochen Wu, Lesley Weitz, Jeffrey Henderson and Max Li
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20100903

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A Concept for Procedural Terminal Area Airspace Integration of Large Uncrewed Aircraft Systems at Non-Towered Airports

Authors: Tim Felix Sievers, Jordan Sakakeeny, Husni Idris, Niklas Peinecke, Vishwanath Bulusu, Enno Nagel and Devin Jack
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20112469

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Including intent in detect-and-avoid systems for remotely piloted aircraft systems

Author: Sybert Stroeve and Mirco Kroon
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20113288

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Development of Cooperative Operating Practices for Upper-Class E Traffic Management (ETM): Human-in-the-loop Simulation Evaluation of Operational Intent Sharing and Strategic Conflict Negotiation with Industry Partners

Authors: Paul Lee, Conrad Dang-Gabriel, Jeffrey Homola, Connie Brasil, Deborah Bakowski, Kevin-Christian Garzon Galindo and Mark Evans
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20125416

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Vertiport Placement for Urban Air Mobility to Reduce Time for Multimodal Travel

Authors: Yashovardhan S. Chati, Yamini Sharma, Kirti Nikam, Prasad Devkar and Arunchandar Vasan
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20172044

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ATM performance measurement and management

Assessing Airport Surface Traffic Performance from Open Sources of Aviation Data

Authors: Xavier Olive, Manuel Waltert and Michael Schultz
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20087716

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Impacts of ADS-B In Approach Applications during Revenue Operations

Authors: Dan Howell, Lynn Tran, Jen King and Alejandro Rodriguez
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20089154

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Unlocking Runway Capacity: Enhancing Efficiency through Dynamic Pairwise Aircraft Wake Separation

Authors: Nana Chu, Chenliang Zhang, Kam Hung Ng and Daniel Delahaye
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20100831

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Traffic complexity measurement via collective dynamics analysis of arrival traffic patterns

Authors: Xuhao Gui, Junfeng Zhang, Daniel Delahaye and Xinmin Tang
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20113352

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Identification and Characterization for Disruptions in the U.S. National Airspace System (NAS)

Authors: Jing Xu, Mark Hansen and Megan Ryerson
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20186813

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Environment and energy efficiency

Assessing Climate Impact of Contrails: Insights from Japan‚Äôs High-Density Airspace and Meteorological Conditions

Authors: Katsuhiro Sekine, Tomoki Hasegawa, Junzi Sun and Eri Itoh
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20089011

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Contrail, or not contrail, that is the question: the "feasibility" of climate-optimal routing

Author: Junzi Sun and Xavier Olive
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20183379

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4-D Trajectory planning, prediction, and management

Stochastic Cruise Speed Control for Time-Based Metering Under Uncertainty

Authors: Yoshinori Matsuno, Haruki Matsuda and Noboru Takeichi
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20089308

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Forecasting of Airline En Route Delay for Individual Flights with Supervised Learning

Authors: Casper Dolman, Marta Ribeiro, Junzi Sun, Phillipe Lothaller, Jasper De Wilde, Alexander Piva and Frans Vossen
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20100548

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Optimized Sequencing and Conflict-Free Path Planning for Arrival Flights during Runway Direction Changes

Authors: Hao Jiang, Zhi Jun Lim, Debosmit Mookherjee, Imen Dhief, Yutong Chen, Duc-Thinh Pham and Sameer Alam
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20167722

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Air traffic flow management and optimization

Efficient Real-Time Aircraft ETA Prediction via Feature Tokenization Transformer

Authors: Liping Huang, Yicheng Zhang, Yifang Yin, Sheng Zhang and Yi Zhang
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20100668

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Tactical Demand and Capacity Balancing with Uncertainty Using Incremental Path-Search based on Spatio-Temporal Graph

Authors: Yutong Chen, Zhi Jun Lim and Sameer Alam
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20123853

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A machine learning model to aid in predicting flight trajectory sequencing delays near the arrival airport

Authors: Danae Mitkas, Brian Kravitz and Martin Durbin
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20127308

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Shadow Evaluation of Real-Time Machine Learning Services in the Houston Airspace

Authors: William Jeremy Coupe, Alexandre Amblard, Sarah Youlton and Matthew Kistler
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20141059

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Learning Network Flow Control Strategies from Miles-In-Trail Data

Authors: Nianxi Xie, Yanjun Wang, Ying Zhou, Sameer Alam, Vu Duong and Mark Hansen
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20143239

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Flight allocation in flight-centric air traffic control: A MILP model approach

Author: Andr√©as Guitart and Daniel Delahaye
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20165993

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From En-Route to Touchdown: Uncertainty Analysis of Inbound Traffic Flows to Singapore Changi Airport

Authors: Daniel Lubig, Judith Rosenow, Norman Peter and Hartmut Fricke
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20184202

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A robust optimization approach for dynamic airspace configuration

Authors: Go Nam Lui, Guglielmo Lulli, Luigi De Giovanni, Martina Galeazzo, Iciar Garcia-Ovies Carro and Rebeca Llorente Martinez
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20185050

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Predicting Reactionary Delays in a Hub-Spoke Network using Graph Attention Neural Networks

Authors: Constanca Veiga, Marta Ribeiro and Marie Carre
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20185265

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Automation, human factors, and decision support systems

A Data-Driven Framework for Next-Day Traffic Forecasting at Small Airports with Multi-Scale Machine Learning

Authors: Zhuoxuan Cao, David Lovell, Seth Young and Aaron Webb
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20100733

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Do ATCOs Need Explanations, and Why? Towards ATCO-Centered Explainable AI for Conflict Resolution Advisories

Authors: Katherine Fennedy, Brian Hilburn, Thaivalappil Noushad Mohammed Nadirsha, Sameer Alam, Khanh-Duy Le and Hua Li
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20112238

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Adaptive Traffic-Following Scheme for Safe Separation and Orderly Control of Distributed Multi-Vehicle Systems

Authors: Anahita Jain, Husni Idris, John-Paul Clarke and Daniel Delahaye
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20143440

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Leveraging Retrieval-Augmented In-context Learning for Complex Air Traffic Scenario Generation

Authors: Yash Guleria, Duc-Thinh Pham, Ashton Low Kin Yun, Nadirshah Thaivalappil N.M., Katherine Fennedy, Chunyao Ma and Sameer Alam
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20166514

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Automating Terminal Airspace Vectoring: A Machine-Assisted Approach for Sequencing, Spacing and Merging of Arrival Flights

Authors: Imen Dhief, Zhi Jun Lim, Hao Jiang, Duc-Thinh Pham and Sameer Alam
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20209399

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Weather in Air Transportation

Recurrent Based Neural Network Quantile Predictions of Airport Capacity

Authors: Benjamin Tolley, Jeremiah Budiman and James Jones
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20100789

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Recommending Traffic Management Initiatives in Non-Convective Weather

Authors: James Jones, Jeremiah Budiman and Benjamin Tolley
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20127164

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Probabilistic Risk-Aware Flight Trajectory Planning under Convective Weather

Authors: Wei Zhou, Yutong Chen, Sameer Alam and Xavier Prats
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20139747

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Weather Considerations for Airport Capacity Decision Support Development

Authors: Tom Reynolds, Mike Matthews, David Clark, Sophie Splawinski, Kurtis Arnold and Matthew Williams
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20142942

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Doctoral papers

Structural predictability of large-scale aircraft interaction networks

Author: Raúl López-Martín and Massimiliano Zanin

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Multimodal Traffic Coordination for Safety Landings

Authors: Pavithra Sathya Kumar, Ehsan Asadi, and Michael Schultz

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Spatial Analysis-Driven Facility Location Optimization for Vertiports

Authors: Elif Erkek, Martin Lindner, and Hartmut Fricke

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Learning to Explain Air Traffic Situation

Authors: Hong-ah Chai, Seokbin Yoon, and Keumjin Lee

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Modified Dijkstra’s Algorithm for Search and Rescue Operations in Dynamic Wildfire Environments

Authors: Elia Ghisellini, Daniel Delahaye, and Huijuan Yang

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Optimisation of the North Atlantic Air Traffic Management to mitigate environmental impact

Authors: Nils Ahrenhold, Dirk Kügler, Joost Ellerbroek, and Jacco Hoekstra

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Dynamic modeling of UAV trajectory prediction in an urban environment

Authors: Md Ashraful Islam, Stanley Förster, and Hartmut Fricke

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Spatiotemporal Trajectory Planning for Multi-Aircraft Terminal Operations in UAM Considering Wake Effects and Dynamics

Authors: Di Lv, Kai Wang ,Yuhao Wang, and Wei Zhang

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Generative Stress-Testing for Air Traffic Management Resilience

Authors: Sinan Abdulhak, Yuhan Miao, Celine Lee, Wayne Hubbard, Alexander S. Estes, and Max Z. Li

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Design of a hybrid-electric powertrain model for trajectory optimization

Authors: Edgar Böttcher, Thomas Zeh and Hartmut Fricke

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Integrated airport/airside operations

A new method to compute more appropriate off-block times and taxiing paths for airport surface management

Authors: Ruixin Wang, Bosheng Ba, Jean-Baptiste Gotteland, Yunqi Gao, Tian Huang and Yifei Zhao
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20110753

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Speech-to-Route: Leveraging Large Language Models for Taxi Route Visualization

Authors: Phat Thai, Hasnain Ali, Xuan Tao Hoo, Chea Mean Chan, Duc-Thinh Pham and Sameer Alam
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20124967

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Machine learning predictions of Target Off-Block Time and Turnaround Duration for all European A-CDM Airports

Author: Paolino De Falco
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20127242

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Chances and Pitfalls of the Point Merge Concept - A design Optimization Framework with a Case Study for Leipzig/Halle Airport on Noise, Capacity and Flight Efficiency

Authors: Hartmut Fricke, Christoph Thiel, Markus Vogel and Martin Lindner
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20140541

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Robust Management of Airport Security Queues Considering Passenger Non-compliance with Chance-Constrained Optimization

Authors: Shangqing Cao, Aparimit Kasliwal, Huangyi Zheng, Masoud Reihanifar, Francesc Robuste and Mark Hansen
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20183998

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Economics, finance, and policy

Exploring Airlines Scheduled Buffer Time Adjustment Strategies: An Analytical Approach

Authors: Ying Zhou, Mark Hansen and Sameer Alam
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20113163

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Safety, resilience, and security

Ensuring UAS Airworthiness: Deep Learning-Based Acoustic Health Monitoring of Motor Health

Authors: Prissha Chawla, Chetan Kulkarni and Manuel Arias Chao
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20159667

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An MAC Probability Assessment Framework for Integrated Operations in Urban Air Mobility Considering Safety Barriers

Authors: Jinpeng Zhang, Yan Xu, Kaiquan Cai, Victor Gordo and Gokhan Inalhan
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20164185

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Anomaly Detection of Aircraft on Final Approach to an Aerodrome with Temporal Fusion Transformers

Authors: Giuseppina Carannante, Nidhal Bouaynaya, Tom Tessitore, Anis Omezzine, Andrew Bak and Charles Johnson
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20209780

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1st Symposium Papers and Presentations

Accepted Papers and Presentations

Accepted Papers

Best Paper

An Evaluation of UTM ConOps for Drone Deliveries: From Pre-Planned Air Corridors to Dynamic 4D Trajectories

Optimization-Guided Exploration of Advanced Air Mobility Congestion Management Strategies with Stochastic Demands

A Concept for Procedural Terminal Area Airspace Integration of Large Uncrewed Aircraft Systems at Non-Towered Airports

Including intent in detect-and-avoid systems for remotely piloted aircraft systems

Development of Cooperative Operating Practices for Upper-Class E Traffic Management (ETM): Human-in-the-loop Simulation Evaluation of Operational Intent Sharing and Strategic Conflict Negotiation with Industry Partners

Vertiport Placement for Urban Air Mobility to Reduce Time for Multimodal Travel

Assessing Airport Surface Traffic Performance from Open Sources of Aviation Data

Impacts of ADS-B In Approach Applications during Revenue Operations

Unlocking Runway Capacity: Enhancing Efficiency through Dynamic Pairwise Aircraft Wake Separation

Traffic complexity measurement via collective dynamics analysis of arrival traffic patterns

Identification and Characterization for Disruptions in the U.S. National Airspace System (NAS)

Assessing Climate Impact of Contrails: Insights from Japan‚Äôs High-Density Airspace and Meteorological Conditions

Contrail, or not contrail, that is the question: the "feasibility" of climate-optimal routing

Stochastic Cruise Speed Control for Time-Based Metering Under Uncertainty

Forecasting of Airline En Route Delay for Individual Flights with Supervised Learning

Optimized Sequencing and Conflict-Free Path Planning for Arrival Flights during Runway Direction Changes

Efficient Real-Time Aircraft ETA Prediction via Feature Tokenization Transformer

Tactical Demand and Capacity Balancing with Uncertainty Using Incremental Path-Search based on Spatio-Temporal Graph

A machine learning model to aid in predicting flight trajectory sequencing delays near the arrival airport

Shadow Evaluation of Real-Time Machine Learning Services in the Houston Airspace

Learning Network Flow Control Strategies from Miles-In-Trail Data

Flight allocation in flight-centric air traffic control: A MILP model approach

From En-Route to Touchdown: Uncertainty Analysis of Inbound Traffic Flows to Singapore Changi Airport

A robust optimization approach for dynamic airspace configuration

Predicting Reactionary Delays in a Hub-Spoke Network using Graph Attention Neural Networks

A Data-Driven Framework for Next-Day Traffic Forecasting at Small Airports with Multi-Scale Machine Learning

Do ATCOs Need Explanations, and Why? Towards ATCO-Centered Explainable AI for Conflict Resolution Advisories

Adaptive Traffic-Following Scheme for Safe Separation and Orderly Control of Distributed Multi-Vehicle Systems

Leveraging Retrieval-Augmented In-context Learning for Complex Air Traffic Scenario Generation

Automating Terminal Airspace Vectoring: A Machine-Assisted Approach for Sequencing, Spacing and Merging of Arrival Flights

Recurrent Based Neural Network Quantile Predictions of Airport Capacity

Recommending Traffic Management Initiatives in Non-Convective Weather

Probabilistic Risk-Aware Flight Trajectory Planning under Convective Weather

Weather Considerations for Airport Capacity Decision Support Development

Structural predictability of large-scale aircraft interaction networks

Multimodal Traffic Coordination for Safety Landings

Spatial Analysis-Driven Facility Location Optimization for Vertiports

Learning to Explain Air Traffic Situation

Modified Dijkstra’s Algorithm for Search and Rescue Operations in Dynamic Wildfire Environments

Optimisation of the North Atlantic Air Traffic Management to mitigate environmental impact

Dynamic modeling of UAV trajectory prediction in an urban environment

Spatiotemporal Trajectory Planning for Multi-Aircraft Terminal Operations in UAM Considering Wake Effects and Dynamics

Generative Stress-Testing for Air Traffic Management Resilience

Design of a hybrid-electric powertrain model for trajectory optimization

A new method to compute more appropriate off-block times and taxiing paths for airport surface management

Speech-to-Route: Leveraging Large Language Models for Taxi Route Visualization

Machine learning predictions of Target Off-Block Time and Turnaround Duration for all European A-CDM Airports

Chances and Pitfalls of the Point Merge Concept - A design Optimization Framework with a Case Study for Leipzig/Halle Airport on Noise, Capacity and Flight Efficiency

Robust Management of Airport Security Queues Considering Passenger Non-compliance with Chance-Constrained Optimization

Exploring Airlines Scheduled Buffer Time Adjustment Strategies: An Analytical Approach

Ensuring UAS Airworthiness: Deep Learning-Based Acoustic Health Monitoring of Motor Health

An MAC Probability Assessment Framework for Integrated Operations in Urban Air Mobility Considering Safety Barriers

Anomaly Detection of Aircraft on Final Approach to an Aerodrome with Temporal Fusion Transformers