Welcome and Registration

Welcome by Conference Chairs

Dirk Schaefer (EUROCONTROL) and Eric Neiderman (FAA)

Welcome Speeches

Henri Werij (TU Delft), Jacco Hoekstra (TU Delft), and Tânia Cardoso Simões (EUROCONTROL)

Keynote 1

The potential of large electric aircraft for future commercial air transport

Reynard de Vries (Elysian Aircraft)

Coffee

Session

Track 1 - ATM performance measurement and management I

Chair Xavier Prats (UPC)
Room A

• Mahmoud Makhlouf - Data-Driven Assessment of DME Operational Usage in Relation to Service Volume Definitions
  Mahmoud Makhlouf (ESEO Angers), Tereza Topkova and Valeriu Vitan (EUROCONTROL)

Track 2 - Advanced air mobility I

Chair David Lovell (UMd)
Room B

• Téo Chauvin - Alternative Non-homotopic Routes and Stochastic Density Estimation for UAS in Urban Airspace
  Téo Chauvin, David Gianazza, Nicolas Durand and Richard Alligier (ENAC)

Track 3 - Automation, Human factors, and decision support systems I

Chair Aurélie Arntzen (University of Southern Norway)
Room C

• Clark Borst (TU Delft) - Interactive Dynamic Airspace Sectorization through Human-in-the-Loop Optimization
  

Session

Track 1 - ATM performance measurement and management I

Chair Xavier Prats (UPC)
Room A

• Phillipe Lothaller - Probabilistic Forecasting of Aircraft Transit Time within a Flight Information Region: A Case Study of Schiphol Airport
  Egemen Süülker, Phillipe Lothaller, Marta Ribeiro, Junzi Sun (TU Delft), Jasper De Wilde and Alexander Piva (KLM)

Track 2 - Advanced air mobility I

Chair David Lovell (UMd)
Room B

• Hartmut Fricke - Cooperative UAS Identification for UTM - UAS Position Accuracy Analysis of FLARM and Remote ID Technologies
  Martin Lindner, Hannes Braßel, Thomas Zeh, Mingchuan Luo and Hartmut Fricke (TU Dresden)

Track 3 - Automation, Human factors, and decision support systems I

Chair Aurélie Arntzen (University of Southern Norway)
Room C

• Niclas Wüstenbecker (DLR) - Direct to City or "Direct to SIDDI"? – LLM-based Auto-Correction of Unknown Waypoints for Aviation Speech Models
  Oliver Ohneiser, Matthias Kleinert and Hartmut Helmke (DLR)

Session

Track 1 - ATM performance measurement and management I

Chair Xavier Prats (UPC)
Room A

• Go Nam Lui - Temporal Residual Learning for Real-Time Air Traffic Complexity Forecasting
  Go Nam Lui, Guglielmo Lulli (Lancaster Unicversity) and Maria Florencia Lema Esposto (CRIDA)

Track 2 - Advanced air mobility I

Chair David Lovell (UMd)
Room B

• Elif Erkek - Enabling Scalable Vertiport Network Design via Terrain-Aware Spatial Filtering and sPCA-Based Candidate Reduction
  Elif Erkek, Martin Lindner and Hartmut Fricke (TU Dresden)

Track 3 - Automation, Human factors, and decision support systems I

Chair Aurélie Arntzen (University of Southern Norway)
Room C

• Zhi Jun Lim (NTU) - Retrospective Validation of a Data-Driven TMA Complexity Model with Air Traffic Controllers
  Ziqing Xia, Sameer Alam (NTU) and Duc-Thinh Pham (VinUniversity)

Lunch

Session

Track 1 - Doctoral paper session 1

Chair David Lovell (UMd)
Room A

• Raúl López-Martín (IFISC) - Towards a retrospective evaluation of sector complexity metrics
  

Track 2 - Doctoral paper session 2

Chair Hartmut Fricke (TU Dresden)
Room B

• Feezan Akhtar (Queen Mary University of London) - Routing and Scheduling Optimisation for Airport Ground Operations: An Incremental Constraints Study
  

Track 3 - Doctoral paper session 3

Chair Dirk Schaefer (EUROCONTROL)
Room C

• Celina Vetter (Zurich University of Applied Sciences) - ATCO Perceptions of AI Decision Support in Air Traffic Control: Advisory and Execution Modes
  

Session

Track 1 - Doctoral paper session 1

Chair David Lovell (UMd)
Room A

• Fedja Netjasov (University of Belgrade) - Developing an Industry-Ready Methodology for Instrument Approach Procedures Optimization
  

Track 2 - Doctoral paper session 2

Chair Hartmut Fricke (TU Dresden)
Room B

• Felix Constantin Hoch (TU Dresden) - Data-Driven Quantification and Classification of Service Disruptions at Airports
  

Track 3 - Doctoral paper session 3

Chair Dirk Schaefer (EUROCONTROL)
Room C

• Minghua Zhang (Beihang University) - Towards Human-centered Flight-Deck Guidance for Surface Trajectory-Based Operations
  

Session

Track 1 - Doctoral paper session 1

Chair David Lovell (UMd)
Room A

• Jaehan Im (UT Austin) - Noncooperative Coordination for Decentralized Air Traffic Management
  

Track 2 - Doctoral paper session 2

Chair Hartmut Fricke (TU Dresden)
Room B

• Josu Blanco (IFISC) - Too Busy to Depeak: Quantifying the Persistence of Peaked Schedules at European Airports
  

Track 3 - Doctoral paper session 3

Chair Dirk Schaefer (EUROCONTROL)
Room C

• Julia Tao (MIT) - Fuel Leak Hazard Management for Hydrogen and Methane Aircraft
  

Coffee

Session

Track 1 - ATM performance measurement and management II

Chair Xavier Olive (ONERA)
Room A

• Verdiana Bottino (DLR) - Validation of the Flight Centric ATC Concept in the Ukrainian Airspace: A Real-Time Simulation
  Mara Weber and Ana Paz Goncalves Martins (DLR)

Track 2 - Advanced air mobility II

Chair Lishuai Li (City University of Hong Kong)
Room B

• Md Ashraful Islam (TU Dresden) - Probabilistic Collision Modeling for UAS under Wind-Induced Uncertainty
  Stanley Förster, Hartmut Fricke (TU Dresden) and John Shortle (GMU)

Track 3 - Automation, human factors, and decision support systems II

Chair Aurélie Arntzen (University of Southern Norway)
Room C

• Alex Konkel (FAA) - Human-in-the-Loop Simulation Study of the Conflict Alert Parameter: An Attempt to Reduce Nuisance Alerts
  Elena St. Amour, Nelson Brown (FAA) and Mark Olsen (ATC Discover)

Session

Track 1 - ATM performance measurement and management II

Chair Xavier Olive (ONERA)
Room A

• Marek Homola (MIT) - Worldwide Assessment of Vertical Airspace Flexibility in Enroute Airspace
  Marek Travnik (Imperial College) and John Hansman (MIT)

Track 2 - Advanced air mobility II

Chair Lishuai Li (City University of Hong Kong)
Room B

• Jasmine Jerry Aloor (MIT) - Decentralized Autonomous Traffic Management through Corridor Networks
  Aadarsh Govada (UMd) and Hamsa Balakrishnan (MIT)

Track 3 - Automation, human factors, and decision support systems II

Chair Aurélie Arntzen (University of Southern Norway)
Room C

• Marta Sánchez Cidoncha (CRIDA) - Operational Evaluation of Machine Learning–Based Miles-to-Touchdown Prediction in Terminal Airspace
  Faustino Tello Caballo, Diego Piva Álvarez (CRIDA), José Recio Sánchez and María del Prado Plaza García (ENAIRE)

Session

Track 1 - ATM performance measurement and management II

Chair Xavier Olive (ONERA)
Room A

• Jing Xu (UC Berkeley) - From Disruption Mitigation to Policy Compliance: Airline Cancellation Strategies Under the November 2025 FAA Emergency Order
  Mark Hansen (UC Berkeley)

Track 2 - Advanced air mobility II

Chair Lishuai Li (City University of Hong Kong)
Room B

• Jordan Sakakeeny (NASA) - Uncrewed Aircraft System Lost Command and Control Link Arrival Procedures with Simulated Air Traffic Control Resolution Maneuvers
  David P. Thipphavong, Todd A. Lauderdale (NASA), Nadezhda Dimitrova (Metis Technology Solutions), Vishwanath Bulusu and James D. Phillips (Crown Innovations)

Track 3 - Automation, human factors, and decision support systems II

Chair Aurélie Arntzen (University of Southern Norway)
Room C

• Elena St. Amour (FAA) - A Characterization of Air Traffic Controller Eye Movements in Response to Conflict Alerts
  Alexander Konkel, Nelson Brown (FAA) and Mark Olsen (ATC Discover)

5K fun run/walk

Coffee

Session

Track 1 - Air traffic flow management and optimization I

Chair Joseph Post (USF)
Room A

• Junqiang Wan (Civil Aviation University of China) - En-Route Sector Demand Prediction with a Long- and Short-Term Transformer-Based Spatiotemporal Network
  Yifei Zhao, Hongyong Wang (Civil Aviation University of China), Xavier Prats (Technical University of Catalonia) and Max Z. Li (UMich)

Track 2 - Environment and energy efficiency

Chair Javier Lopes (Boeing)
Room B

• Ramon Dalmau (EUROCONTROL) - Correlating Physical Contrail Models with Ground-Based Observations
  Gabriel Jarry and Philippe Very (EUROCONTROL)

Track 3 - Automation, human factors, and decision support systems III

Chair José Miguel De Pablo (CRIDA/Enaire)
Room C

• Edward Henderson (The Alan Turing Institute) - Graph-based Complexity Forecasts in UK En Route Airspace Using Relevant Aircraft Interactions
  George De Ath (University of Exeter) and Nick Pepper (The Alan Turing Institute)

Session

Track 1 - Air traffic flow management and optimization I

Chair Joseph Post (USF)
Room A

• Huijuan Yang (ENAC) - A Flight-Centric Decision Support Framework for Tactical Airspace Congestion Mitigation under Multi-Scale Traffic Volume Constraints
  Daniel Delahaye (ENAC), Chunyao Ma and Sameer Alam (NTU)

Track 2 - Environment and energy efficiency

Chair Javier Lopes (Boeing)
Room B

• Lishuai Li (City University of Hong Kong) - Uncertainty Quantification in Flight Time Prediction for Airline Flight Planning
  Ruijia Gu and Chi Li (City University of Hong Kong)

Track 3 - Automation, human factors, and decision support systems III

Chair José Miguel De Pablo (CRIDA/Enaire)
Room C

• Àlex Padrós (Indra) - Real-Time Direct Route Recommendation using Rule-Based Algorithms: Conflict-Free Advisories for Environmental Impact Reduction
  Víctor-Manuel Martínez-García and Álvaro Quintanar (Indra)

Session

Track 1 - Air traffic flow management and optimization I

Chair Joseph Post (USF)
Room A

• Ying Zhou (NTU) - Trajectory Options Planning under Uncertainty with Risk-Sensitive Airline Preferences
  Sameer Alam (NTU), Mark Hansen (UC Berkeley) and Daniel Delahaye (ENAC)

Track 2 - Environment and energy efficiency

Chair Javier Lopes (Boeing)
Room B

• Gérald Gurtner (University of Westminster) - A new modulation charging concept to reduce CO2 and non-CO2 emissions
  Tatjana Bolic (University of Westminster)

Track 3 - Automation, human factors, and decision support systems III

Chair José Miguel De Pablo (CRIDA/Enaire)
Room C

• Anahita Jain (MIT) - Benefits and Limits of Self-Organization in Autonomous Air Traffic Operations
  Husni Idris (NASA) and John-Paul Clarke (UT Austin)

Coffee

Session

Track - Doctoral paper session 1

Chair David Lovell (UMd)
Room A

• Mitsuki Tanoue (Osaka Metropolitan University) - A Three-Stage Probabilistic Pipeline for Departure-to-Cruise Prediction
  

Track - Doctoral paper session 2

Chair Hartmut Fricke (TU Dresden)
Room B

• Norman Peter (TU Dresden) - Overcoming limitations of analytical aircraft noise emission estimation using machine-learning
  

Track - Doctoral paper session 3

Chair Jacco Hoekstra (TU Delft)
Room C

• Pau Esteve (IFISC) - Exploring delay propagation in air transport using temporal networks
  

Session

Track - Doctoral paper session 1

Chair David Lovell (UMd)
Room A

• Micah Borrero (University of Michigan) - A Predict-Then-Optimize Framework for Commercial-Humanitarian Airlift Operations under Operational Uncertainty
  

Track - Doctoral paper session 2

Chair Hartmut Fricke (TU Dresden)
Room B

• Marco Berger (TU Dresden) - The Aviation External Cost Integrated Framework - Introducing a Comprehensive Aviation Emission Inventory Model
  

Track - Doctoral paper session 3

Chair Jacco Hoekstra (TU Delft)
Room C

• Abhishek Rajaram (TU Dresden) - Statistical Causality and Decomposition Analysis of Airline Reactionary Delay
  

Light Lunch

Panel 1

Will the UAM bubble burst?

Dirk Schaefer (EUROCONTROL), Moderator

Refreshments

Tour of aerospace faculty

Student activity at Outdoor Delft

Coffee

Keynote 2

Robin Radar: from birds and drones detection towards supporting advanced unmanned traffic management

Vivien Croes (Robin Radar)

Keynote 3

From unexpected discovery to worldwide deployment

Shane Kenny (AirNav Ireland) and Karim Zeghal (EUROCONTROL)

Coffee

Session

Track 1 - Air traffic flow management and optimization II

Chair Sameer Alam (NTU)
Room A

• Zhengyi Wang (EUROCONTROL) - A Flow-Centric Approach for Network-Level ATFM Delay Optimization and Hotspot Resolution Using Hierarchical Monte Carlo Tree Search
  Thinh Hoang, Daniel Delahaye (ENAC) and Leïla Zerrouki (EUROCONTROL)

Track 2 - Integrated airport/airside operations I

Chair Dave Lovell (UMd)
Room B

• Job de Vries (TU Delft) - Stand Compatibility of Future Sustainable Aircraft. Case Study: The Elysian E9X
  Niek van Amstel (NACO) and Pieter van den Berg (Elysian Aircraft)

Track 3 - Safety, resilience, and security I

Chair Fedja Netjasov (University of Belgrade)
Room C

• Songqiying Yang (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology) - Impact of Formation Size, Geometry, and Role Assignment on Collision-Avoidance Performance of Commercial Aircraft Formations
  Ania Adil and Eric Feron (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)

Session

Track 1 - Air traffic flow management and optimization II

Chair Sameer Alam (NTU)
Room A

• Sara Ruano Ferrer (CRIDA) - A Transition-Aware Methodology for Configuration Pathways in Dynamic Airspace Management
  Pedro Muiño Martínez, Manuel Ángel Amaro Carmona, M. Florencia Lema Esposto and Nicolas Suárez (CRIDA)

Track 2 - Integrated airport/airside operations I

Chair Dave Lovell (UMd)
Room B

• Álvaro Quintanar (Indra) - Computer Vision-Based Safety Alerts for Airport Surveillance: A Multi-Camera System for Incursions, FOD and Wildlife
  Juan Ramos and Guillermo del Valle-Reboul (Indra)

Track 3 - Safety, resilience, and security I

Chair Fedja Netjasov (University of Belgrade)
Room C

• Dexiang Wang (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics) - Feudal Hierarchical Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Cooperative Conflict Management in Sectorized Airspace
  Yanjun Wang, Lei Yang (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics), Zhixin Miao (Central South ATMB) and Daniel Delahaye (ENAC)

Session

Track 1 - Air traffic flow management and optimization II

Chair Sameer Alam (NTU)
Room A

• Jorn van Beek (TU Delft) - Mitigating Uncertainty in an Extended-Arrival Manager Environment
  Joost Ellerbroek (TU Delft) and Ferdinand Dijkstra (LVNL)

Track 3 - Safety, resilience, and security I

Chair Fedja Netjasov (University of Belgrade)
Room C

• Suleman Khan (Linköping University) - Formal Verification of Quantum-Resilient Authentication and Handover Protocols for LDACS
  Gurjot Singh Gaba and Andrei Gurtov (Linköping University)

Lunch

Session

Track - Tutorial session 1

Chair Xavier Olive (ONERA)
Room B

• - Beyond ADS-B: exploring multi-modal aviation data with tangram
  

Track - Tutorial session 2

Chair Xavier Prats (UPC)
Room C

• - Dynamo3: Aircraft trajectory optimisation tool for research and education in air traffic management (ATM) and aircraft operations (OPS)
  

Coffee

Session

Track 1 - Weather in air transportation I

Chair Marta Sánchez (CRIDA)
Room A

• Safa Saber (MIT Lincoln Laboratory) - Weather Considerations for Terminal Airspace Capacity Decision Support Development
  Joe Venuti, Mark Worris and Tom Reynolds (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)

Track 2 - Integrated airport/airside operations II

Chair David Lovell (UMd)
Room B

• Edward Londner (MIT Lincoln Laboratory) - Monte Carlo Analysis of Runway Status Lights During a Runway Incursion
  Lawrence Capuder, Jesse Engle and Ian Jessen (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)

Track 3 - Safety, resilience, and security II

Chair Xiaoqian Sun (Beihang University)
Room C

• Max Li (University of Michigan) - Stakeholder Perspective Analysis for Airspace Resilience: Informing Countermeasure Design through Multi-Entity Coordination Assessment
  Neil G. Jacobson, Patty Clark (Project Gestalt), Megan Ryerson (UPenn), David Lovell (UMd), Curt Rademaker (ATAC) and Mark Hansen (UC Berkeley)

Session

Track 1 - Weather in air transportation I

Chair Marta Sánchez (CRIDA)
Room A

• Matthijs Slobbe (LVNL) - Wind Field Nowcasting and Forecasting using Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models with Aircraft-Derived Data
  Junzi Sun (TU Delft)

Track 2 - Integrated airport/airside operations II

Chair David Lovell (UMd)
Room B

• Joost Ellerbroek (TU Delft) - Departure Manager improvement through Vision-based Predicted End of Ground handling Time
  Jens Bremer (TU Delft) and Ferdinand Dijkstra (LVNL)

Track 3 - Safety, resilience, and security II

Chair Xiaoqian Sun (Beihang University)
Room C

• Yuheng Wang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) - Learning-Based Pre-tactical Conflict Management Strategy for Urban Air Mobility
  Tinghe Zhang, Ang Li (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) and Peng Wei (GWU)

Session

Track 1 - Weather in air transportation I

Chair Marta Sánchez (CRIDA)
Room A

• James Jones (MIT Lincoln Laboratory) - Airspace Capacity Planning for Convective Weather Events
  Benjamin Tolley (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)

Track 2 - Integrated airport/airside operations II

Chair David Lovell (UMd)
Room B

• Twan Keijzer (NLR) - Exercise, Exercise! The impact of hydrogen in aviation on airport emergency response
  Lisette Hartog, Timo Nijman, Gijs Kaandorp (NLR), Jan-Daan Maasland, Jelle Moerkerken (Rotterdam The Hague Airport), Vincent van Hasselt, Luc Korzilius (Pipistrel), Lea Taillandier (French National Firefighter Officers Academy), Andrea Carrieri (Deep Blue Srl), Vasileios Kekkis (Aegean Airlines) and Persi Santamouri (Atehns International Airport)

Track 3 - Safety, resilience, and security II

Chair Xiaoqian Sun (Beihang University)
Room C

• Xiaoqian Sun (Beihang University) - Airport resilience and climate change: A global study on airports
  Sebastian Wandelt (Beihang University) and Massimiliano Zanin (Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems)

Gala Dinner

Nieuwe Kerk (the church opens at 18:30)

Coffee

Session

Track 1 - Weather in air transportation II

Chair James Jones (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
Room A

• Soufiane Momtaz (Hassan II University of Casablanca) - METAR-Based Probabilistic Nowcasting of Low Visibility Procedure Phases at Casablanca Airport
  Otmane Idrissi (Hassan II University of Casablanca) and Hamza Taheri (AIAC Mohammed VI)

Track 2 - 4-D Trajectory planning, prediction and management

Chair Daniel Delahaye (ENAC)
Room B

• Ramon Dalmau (EUROCONTROL) - A Unified, Vectorized and Differentiable Framework for Aircraft Performance Modelling
  Gabriel Jarry and Philippe Very (EUROCONTROL)

Track 3 - AAM economics, finance, and policy

Chair Yu Zhang (USF)
Room C

• Xuhao Gui (ENAC) - Regional-Scale Multimodal Service Optimization for Innovative Air Mobility Using MILP
  Jean-Claude Lebègue and Daniel Delahaye (ENAC)

Session

Track 1 - Weather in air transportation II

Chair James Jones (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
Room A

• Wei Zhou (UPC) - Chance Constrained Aircraft Trajectory Planning under Uncertain Convective Environment
  Xavier Prats (UPC)

Track 2 - 4-D Trajectory planning, prediction and management

Chair Daniel Delahaye (ENAC)
Room B

• Mohammed El Dor (TU Delft) - Improving Interpretability in Trajectory Generation: A Case Study on Efficient Latent Space Utilization
  Marta Ribeiro, Junzi Sun and Jacco Hoekstra (TU Delft)

Track 3 - AAM economics, finance, and policy

Chair Yu Zhang (USF)
Room C

• Dayeong Park (Korea Aerospace University) - Third-Party Acceptance Factors for Urban Air Mobility
  Sang Hyun Kim (Korea Aerospace University)

Session

Track 1 - Weather in air transportation II

Chair James Jones (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
Room A

• Soufiane Momtaz (Hassan II University of Casablanca) - Enhanced Weather-Driven Time-Based Separation Procedure Triggering at London Gatwick Airport
  Otmane Idrissi (Hassan II University of Casablanca)

Track 2 - 4-D Trajectory planning, prediction and management

Chair Daniel Delahaye (ENAC)
Room B

• Angelika Swatowska (EUROCONTROL) - Data-Driven Aircraft Speed Profile Prediction for Enhanced Trajectory Realism
  Vincent Mouillet, Henrich Glaser-Opitz and Angela Nuic (EUROCONTROL)

Track 3 - AAM economics, finance, and policy

Chair Yu Zhang (USF)
Room C

• Mark Hansen (UC Berkeley) - Like Uber or Like Buses? Economic Feasibility Analysis of UAM for Airport Access
  Shangqing Cao, Rishi Srinivasan and Raja Sengupta (UC Berkeley)

Coffee

Session

Track - Tutorial session 3

Chair Joost Ellerbroek (TU Delft)
Room B

• - Reinforcement Learning for Air Traffic Control applications with BlueSky-Gym
  

Closing Session

Best Paper Awards & Closing Announcement ATRDS 2027

Eric Neiderman, FAA and Dirk Schaefer, EUROCONTROL

Lunch

End of Day 4

ATR&D Symposium Committee Meeting

End 15:30