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Safety, resilience, and security

Formal Verification of Quantum-Resilient Authentication and Handover Protocols for LDACS

Authors: Suleman Khan, Gurjot Singh Gaba and Andrei Gurtov
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21461833

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Airport resilience and climate change: A global study on airports

Authors: Xiaoqian Sun, Sebastian Wandelt and Massimiliano Zanin
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21652023

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Exercise, Exercise! The impact of hydrogen in aviation on airport emergency response

Authors: Twan Keijzer, Lisette Hartog, Jan-Daan Maasland, Jelle Moerkerken, Timo Nijman, Gijs Kaandorp, Vincent van Hasselt, Luc Korzilius, Lea Taillandier, Andrea Carrieri, Vasileios Kekkis and Persi Santamouri
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21690848

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Stakeholder Perspective Analysis for Airspace Resilience: Informing Countermeasure Design through Multi-Entity Coordination Assessment

Authors: Neil G. Jacobson, Patty Clark, Megan Ryerson, Max Z. Li, David Lovell, Curt Rademaker and Mark Hansen
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21691413

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Learning-Based Pre-tactical Conflict Management Strategy for Urban Air Mobility

Authors: Yuheng Wang, Tinghe Zhang, Peng Wei and Ang Li
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21829026

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Integrated airport/airside operations

Monte Carlo Analysis of Runway Status Lights During a Runway Incursion

Authors: Edward Londner, Lawrence Capuder, Jesse Engle and Ian Jessen
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21462187

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Stand Compatibility of Future Sustainable Aircraft. Case Study: The Elysian E9X

Authors: Job de Vries, Niek van Amstel and Pieter van den Berg
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21650722

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Departure Manager improvement through Vision-based Predicted End of Ground handling Time

Authors: Jens Bremer, Joost Ellerbroek and Ferdinand Dijkstra
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21726613

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Computer Vision-Based Safety Alerts for Airport Surveillance: A Multi-Camera System for Incursions, FOD and Wildlife

Authors: Juan Ramos, Guillermo del Valle-Reboul and Álvaro Quintanar
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21727031

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Autonomous, unmanned and remotely piloted aircraft systems and emerging operations

Regional-Scale Multimodal Service Optimization for Innovative Air Mobility Using MILP

Authors: Xuhao Gui, Jean-Claude Lebègue and Daniel Delahaye
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21462291

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Alternative Non-homotopic Routes and Stochastic Density Estimation for UAS in Urban Airspace

Authors: Téo Chauvin, David Gianazza, Nicolas Durand and Richard Alligier
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21463777

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Uncrewed Aircraft System Lost Command and Control Link Arrival Procedures with Simulated Air Traffic Control Resolution Maneuvers

Authors: Jordan Sakakeeny, David P. Thipphavong, Todd A. Lauderdale, Nadezhda Dimitrova, Vishwanath Bulusu and James D. Phillips
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21516018

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Cooperative UAS Identification for UTM - UAS Position Accuracy Analysis of FLARM and Remote ID Technologies

Authors: Martin Lindner, Hannes Braßel, Thomas Zeh, Mingchuan Luo and Hartmut Fricke
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21652327

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Enabling Scalable Vertiport Network Design via Terrain-Aware Spatial Filtering and sPCA-Based Candidate Reduction

Authors: Elif Erkek, Martin Lindner and Hartmut Fricke
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21710679

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Probabilistic Collision Modeling for UAS under Wind-Induced Uncertainty

Authors: Md Ashraful Islam, Stanley Förster, Hartmut Fricke and John Shortle
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21727123

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Decentralized Autonomous Traffic Management through Corridor Networks

Authors: Jasmine Jerry Aloor, Aadarsh Govada and Hamsa Balakrishnan
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21829190

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Doctoral paper

Too Busy to Depeak: Quantifying the Persistence of Peaked Schedules at European Airports

Authors: Josu Blanco, Jose J. Ramasco and Massimiliano Zanin

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ATCO Perceptions of AI Decision Support in Air Traffic Control: Advisory and Execution Modes

Authors: Celina Vetter, Kristina Samardžić, Ruth Häusler Hermann and Maarten Uijt de Haag

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Towards a retrospective evaluation of sector complexity metrics

Author: Raúl López-Martín and Massimiliano Zanin

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Exploring delay propagation in air transport using temporal networks

Author: Pau Esteve and Massimiliano Zanin

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Statistical Causality and Decomposition Analysis of Airline Reactionary Delay

Author: Abhishek Rajaram and Hartmut Fricke

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Towards Human-centered Flight-Deck Guidance for Surface Trajectory-Based Operations

Authors: Minghua Zhang, Kaiquan Cai, Yang Yang, Yuhang Wang and Jun Chen

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A Three-Stage Probabilistic Pipeline for Departure-to-Cruise Prediction

Author: Mitsuki Tanoue and Adriana Andreeva-Mori

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A Predict-Then-Optimize Framework for Commercial-Humanitarian Airlift Operations under Operational Uncertainty

Authors: Micah Borrero, Bharadwaj Eswaran, Shraddha Rana and Max Li

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Developing an Industry-Ready Methodology for Instrument Approach Procedures Optimization

Author: Velibor Andric and Fedja Netjasov

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Routing and Scheduling Optimisation for Airport Ground Operations: An Incremental Constraints Study

Authors: Feezan Akhtar, Jun Chen, Xinwei Wang, John Korna and Richard Cannon

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Overcoming limitations of analytical aircraft noise emission estimation using machine-learning

Authors: Norman Peter, Thomas Zeh and Hartmut Fricke

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Data-Driven Quantification and Classification of Service Disruptions at Airports

Author: Felix Constantin Hoch and Hartmut Fricke

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Noncooperative Coordination for Decentralized Air Traffic Management

Author: Jaehan Im

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Fuel Leak Hazard Management for Hydrogen and Methane Aircraft

Author: Julia Tao and R. John Hansman

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The Aviation External Cost Integrated Framework - Introducing a Comprehensive Aviation Emission Inventory Model

Author: Marco Berger and Hartmut Fricke

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Automation, Human factors, and decision support systems

"Direct to City" or "Direct to SIDDI"? – LLM-based Auto-Correction of Unknown Waypoints for Aviation Speech Models

Authors: Niclas Feier, Oliver Ohneiser, Matthias Kleinert and Hartmut Helmke
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21463432

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A Characterization of Air Traffic Controller Eye Movements in Response to Conflict Alerts

Authors: Alexander Konkel, Elena St. Amour, Nelson Brown and Mark Olsen
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21464024

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Human-in-the-Loop Simulation Study of the Conflict Alert Parameter: An Attempt to Reduce Nuisance Alerts

Authors: Alexander Konkel, Elena St. Amour, Nelson Brown and Mark Olsen
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21475904

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Operational Evaluation of Machine Learning–Based Miles-to-Touchdown Prediction in Terminal Airspace

Authors: Faustino Tello Caballo, Marta Sánchez Cidoncha, Diego Piva Álvarez, José Recio Sánchez and María del Prado Plaza García
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21497127

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Retrospective Validation of a Data-Driven TMA Complexity Model with Air Traffic Controllers

Authors: Zhi Jun Lim, Ziqing Xia, Duc-Thinh Pham and Sameer Alam
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21516171

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Interactive Dynamic Airspace Sectorization through Human-in-the-Loop Optimization

Author: Clark Borst
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21650319

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Graph-based Complexity Forecasts in UK En Route Airspace Using Relevant Aircraft Interactions

Authors: Edward Henderson, George De Ath and Nick Pepper
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21710143

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Real-Time Direct Route Recommendation using Rule-Based Algorithms: Conflict-Free Advisories for Environmental Impact Reduction

Authors: Víctor-Manuel Martínez-García, Àlex Padrós and Álvaro Quintanar
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21726746

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Benefit Limits of Self-Organization in Autonomous Air Traffic Operations

Authors: Anahita Jain, Husni Idris and John-Paul Clarke
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21726939

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Air traffic flow management and optimization

En-Route Sector Demand Prediction with a Long- and Short-Term Transformer-Based Spatiotemporal Network

Authors: Junqiang Wan, Yifei Zhao, Hongyong Wang, Xavier Prats and Max Z. Li
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21480147

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A Flight-Centric Decision Support Framework for Tactical Airspace Congestion Mitigation under Multi-Scale Traffic Volume Constraints

Authors: Huijuan Yang, Daniel Delahaye, Chunyao Ma and Sameer Alam
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21498467

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Trajectory Options Planning under Uncertainty with Risk-Sensitive Airline Preferences

Authors: Ying Zhou, Sameer Alam, Mark Hansen and Daniel Delahaye
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21499465

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A Flow-Centric Approach for Network-Level ATFM Delay Optimization and Hotspot Resolution Using Hierarchical Monte Carlo Tree Search

Authors: Thinh Hoang, Zhengyi Wang, Daniel Delahaye and Leïla Zerrouki
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21512664

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A Transition-Aware Methodology for Configuration Pathways in Dynamic Airspace Management

Authors: Sara Ruano Ferrer, Pedro Muiño Martínez, Manuel Ángel Amaro Carmona, M. Florencia Lema Esposto and Nicolas Suárez Tetzlaff
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21710563

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Mitigating Uncertainty in an Extended-Arrival Manager Environment

Authors: Jorn van Beek, Joost Ellerbroek and Ferdinand Dijkstra
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21727196

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Weather in Air Transportation

Chance Constrained Aircraft Trajectory Planning under Uncertain Convective Environment

Author: Wei Zhou and Xavier Prats
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21480252

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Weather Considerations for Terminal Airspace Capacity Decision Support Development

Authors: Joe Venuti, Safa Saber, Mark Worris and Tom Reynolds
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21498356

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Wind Field Nowcasting and Forecasting using Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models with Aircraft-Derived Data

Author: Matthijs Slobbe and Junzi Sun
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21512545

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Airspace Capacity Planning for Convective Weather Events

Author: James Jones and Benjamin Tolley
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21690416

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METAR-Based Probabilistic Nowcasting of Low Visibility Procedure Phases at Casablanca Airport

Authors: Otmane Idrissi, Soufiane Momtaz and Hamza Taheri
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21828140

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Enhanced Weather-Driven Time-Based Separation Procedure Triggering at London Gatwick Airport

Author: Soufiane Momtaz and Otmane Idrissi
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21828992

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Environment and energy efficiency

Correlating Physical Contrail Models with Ground-Based Observations

Authors: Ramon Dalmau, Gabriel Jarry and Philippe Very
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21496996

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Uncertainty Quantification in Flight Time Prediction for Airline Flight Planning

Authors: Ruijia Gu, Chi Li and Lishuai Li
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21516858

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A new modulation charging concept to reduce CO2 and non-CO2 emissions

Author: Gérald Gurtner and Tatjana Bolic
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21690649

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Economics, finance, and policy

Third-Party Acceptance Factors for Urban Air Mobility

Author: Dayeong Park and Sang Hyun Kim
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21499535

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Like Uber or Like Buses? Economic Feasibility Analysis of UAM for Airport Access

Authors: Shangqing Cao, Rishi Srinivasan, Raja Sengupta and Mark Hansen
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21841420

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4-D Trajectory planning, prediction, and management

Feudal Hierarchical Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Cooperative Conflict Management in Sectorized Airspace

Authors: Dexiang Wang, Yanjun Wang, Lei Yang, Zhixin Miao and Daniel Delahaye
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21512384

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Impact of Formation Size, Geometry, and Role Assignment on Collision-Avoidance Performance of Commercial Aircraft Formations

Authors: Songqiying Yang, Ania Adil and Eric Feron
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21650574

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A Unified, Vectorized and Differentiable Framework for Aircraft Performance Modelling

Authors: Ramon Dalmau, Gabriel Jarry and Philippe Very
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21690135

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Improving Interpretability in Trajectory Generation: A Case Study on Efficient Latent Space Utilization

Authors: Mohammed El Dor, Marta Ribeiro, Junzi Sun and Jacco Hoekstra
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21709972

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Data-Driven Aircraft Speed Profile Prediction for Enhanced Trajectory Realism

Authors: Angelika Swatowska, Vincent Mouillet, Henrich Glaser-Opitz and Angela Nuic
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21826781

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ATM performance measurement and management

Probabilistic Forecasting of Aircraft Transit Time within a Flight Information Region: A Case Study of Schiphol Airport

Authors: Egemen Süülker, Phillipe Lothaller, Marta Ribeiro, Junzi Sun, Jasper De Wilde and Alexander Piva
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21652201

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Data-Driven Assessment of DME Operational Usage in Relation to Service Volume Definitions

Authors: Mahmoud Makhlouf, Tereza Topkova and Valeriu Vitan
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21689827

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Worldwide Assessment of Vertical Airspace Flexibility in Enroute Airspace

Authors: Mina Cezairli, Marek Homola, Marek Travnik and John Hansman
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21710036

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Validation of the Flight Centric ATC Concept in the Ukrainian Airspace: A Real-Time Simulation

Authors: Verdiana Bottino, Mara Weber and Ana Paz Goncalves Martins
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21710404

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From Disruption Mitigation to Policy Compliance: Airline Cancellation Strategies Under the November 2025 FAA Emergency Order

Author: Jing Xu and Mark Hansen
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21829108

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Temporal Residual Learning for Real-Time Air Traffic Complexity Forecasting

Authors: Go Nam Lui, Guglielmo Lulli and Maria Florencia Lema Esposto
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21841366

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Accepted Papers

Best Paper

Formal Verification of Quantum-Resilient Authentication and Handover Protocols for LDACS

Airport resilience and climate change: A global study on airports

Exercise, Exercise! The impact of hydrogen in aviation on airport emergency response

Stakeholder Perspective Analysis for Airspace Resilience: Informing Countermeasure Design through Multi-Entity Coordination Assessment

Learning-Based Pre-tactical Conflict Management Strategy for Urban Air Mobility

Monte Carlo Analysis of Runway Status Lights During a Runway Incursion

Stand Compatibility of Future Sustainable Aircraft. Case Study: The Elysian E9X

Departure Manager improvement through Vision-based Predicted End of Ground handling Time

Computer Vision-Based Safety Alerts for Airport Surveillance: A Multi-Camera System for Incursions, FOD and Wildlife

Regional-Scale Multimodal Service Optimization for Innovative Air Mobility Using MILP

Alternative Non-homotopic Routes and Stochastic Density Estimation for UAS in Urban Airspace

Uncrewed Aircraft System Lost Command and Control Link Arrival Procedures with Simulated Air Traffic Control Resolution Maneuvers

Cooperative UAS Identification for UTM - UAS Position Accuracy Analysis of FLARM and Remote ID Technologies

Enabling Scalable Vertiport Network Design via Terrain-Aware Spatial Filtering and sPCA-Based Candidate Reduction

Probabilistic Collision Modeling for UAS under Wind-Induced Uncertainty

Decentralized Autonomous Traffic Management through Corridor Networks

Too Busy to Depeak: Quantifying the Persistence of Peaked Schedules at European Airports

ATCO Perceptions of AI Decision Support in Air Traffic Control: Advisory and Execution Modes

Towards a retrospective evaluation of sector complexity metrics

Exploring delay propagation in air transport using temporal networks

Statistical Causality and Decomposition Analysis of Airline Reactionary Delay

Towards Human-centered Flight-Deck Guidance for Surface Trajectory-Based Operations

A Three-Stage Probabilistic Pipeline for Departure-to-Cruise Prediction

A Predict-Then-Optimize Framework for Commercial-Humanitarian Airlift Operations under Operational Uncertainty

Developing an Industry-Ready Methodology for Instrument Approach Procedures Optimization

Routing and Scheduling Optimisation for Airport Ground Operations: An Incremental Constraints Study

Overcoming limitations of analytical aircraft noise emission estimation using machine-learning

Data-Driven Quantification and Classification of Service Disruptions at Airports

Noncooperative Coordination for Decentralized Air Traffic Management

Fuel Leak Hazard Management for Hydrogen and Methane Aircraft

The Aviation External Cost Integrated Framework - Introducing a Comprehensive Aviation Emission Inventory Model

"Direct to City" or "Direct to SIDDI"? – LLM-based Auto-Correction of Unknown Waypoints for Aviation Speech Models

A Characterization of Air Traffic Controller Eye Movements in Response to Conflict Alerts

Human-in-the-Loop Simulation Study of the Conflict Alert Parameter: An Attempt to Reduce Nuisance Alerts

Operational Evaluation of Machine Learning–Based Miles-to-Touchdown Prediction in Terminal Airspace

Retrospective Validation of a Data-Driven TMA Complexity Model with Air Traffic Controllers

Interactive Dynamic Airspace Sectorization through Human-in-the-Loop Optimization

Graph-based Complexity Forecasts in UK En Route Airspace Using Relevant Aircraft Interactions

Real-Time Direct Route Recommendation using Rule-Based Algorithms: Conflict-Free Advisories for Environmental Impact Reduction

Benefit Limits of Self-Organization in Autonomous Air Traffic Operations

En-Route Sector Demand Prediction with a Long- and Short-Term Transformer-Based Spatiotemporal Network

A Flight-Centric Decision Support Framework for Tactical Airspace Congestion Mitigation under Multi-Scale Traffic Volume Constraints

Trajectory Options Planning under Uncertainty with Risk-Sensitive Airline Preferences

A Flow-Centric Approach for Network-Level ATFM Delay Optimization and Hotspot Resolution Using Hierarchical Monte Carlo Tree Search

A Transition-Aware Methodology for Configuration Pathways in Dynamic Airspace Management

Mitigating Uncertainty in an Extended-Arrival Manager Environment

Chance Constrained Aircraft Trajectory Planning under Uncertain Convective Environment

Weather Considerations for Terminal Airspace Capacity Decision Support Development

Wind Field Nowcasting and Forecasting using Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models with Aircraft-Derived Data

Airspace Capacity Planning for Convective Weather Events

METAR-Based Probabilistic Nowcasting of Low Visibility Procedure Phases at Casablanca Airport

Enhanced Weather-Driven Time-Based Separation Procedure Triggering at London Gatwick Airport

Correlating Physical Contrail Models with Ground-Based Observations

Uncertainty Quantification in Flight Time Prediction for Airline Flight Planning

A new modulation charging concept to reduce CO2 and non-CO2 emissions

Third-Party Acceptance Factors for Urban Air Mobility

Like Uber or Like Buses? Economic Feasibility Analysis of UAM for Airport Access

Feudal Hierarchical Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Cooperative Conflict Management in Sectorized Airspace

Impact of Formation Size, Geometry, and Role Assignment on Collision-Avoidance Performance of Commercial Aircraft Formations

A Unified, Vectorized and Differentiable Framework for Aircraft Performance Modelling

Improving Interpretability in Trajectory Generation: A Case Study on Efficient Latent Space Utilization

Data-Driven Aircraft Speed Profile Prediction for Enhanced Trajectory Realism

Probabilistic Forecasting of Aircraft Transit Time within a Flight Information Region: A Case Study of Schiphol Airport

Data-Driven Assessment of DME Operational Usage in Relation to Service Volume Definitions

Worldwide Assessment of Vertical Airspace Flexibility in Enroute Airspace

Validation of the Flight Centric ATC Concept in the Ukrainian Airspace: A Real-Time Simulation

From Disruption Mitigation to Policy Compliance: Airline Cancellation Strategies Under the November 2025 FAA Emergency Order

Temporal Residual Learning for Real-Time Air Traffic Complexity Forecasting