Investigating the effect on departure capacity of changing Target Off-Block Time uncertainty

With its 500.000 flights per year, Schiphol Airport is one of the busiest airports in Europe. Efficient runway use is vital for a smooth day-to-day operation. This paper investigates the new runway scheduler at Schiphol Airport, also referred to as the Departure Manager (DMAN). The new DMAN is built for a better utilisation of the outbound...

Applying Large-Scale Weakly Supervised Automatic Speech Recognition to Air Traffic Control

The application of automatic speech recognition in the air traffic control domain has been researched extensively. However, its primary application remains in the training and simulation of air traffic controllers. This is due to the insufficient performance of automatic speech recognition in specific environments, such as air traffic control,...

Investigating the effect on ATFM delays of changing the T-DPI-s horizon for regulated flights

As aviation recovers to pre-pandemic levels large amounts of Air Traffic Flow Management delay also return, as the traffic at airports and in airspaces reaches their old levels. These delays have a yearly cost of around 500 million euros in the European Civil Aviation Conference area and are detrimental to the experience of passengers. This...

Automatic Speech Recognition for Air Traffic Control Using Open Data

Air Traffic Control (ATC) is tasked with ensuring safe separation between aircraft in a given Controlled Traffic Region (CTR). To achieve this an Air Traffic Controller (ATCo) verbally gives clearances using over the air communication. These clearances are kept track of by the ATCo using so-called ‘flight-strips’, which in modern systems are...

IAF Assignment Optimization for Amsterdam Airport Schiphol

During the COVID-19 pandemic people living close to the airport got accustomed to less flights, and therefore less noise disturbance. Now the amount of traffic is increasing again and so is the noise disturbance. For this research specifically the optimizing task of distributing of arriving aircraft over the IAF is addressed, as often the...

High capacity Continuous Descent Operations: A case study of Amsterdam airport Schiphol

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) and the European Commission (EC) have stated their desire for the aviation industry to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050 and in addition these emissions must be reduced by 45% in 2030. In order to reach these goals, all possible contributions to a reduction in carbon emissions are...

Detecting ATC commands in ADS-B data: An exploratory research into ADS-B data to see if detecting ATC commands is possible

Automatic Dependent Broadcast-Surveillance (ADS- B) was introduced to increase the safety of air travel. Since then it has proven to be a useful source of air traffic data for academic research because it is publicly available. Another source of information are the communications between air traffic control (ATC) and aircraft. Methods are (being...

Ultra-Low Energy Time-Mode ADC with Background Calibration for Biomedical Sensing Applications

Biomedical engineering focuses in advancing health care by taking advantage of the technological improvement. An important part of biomedical engineering is biomedical sensing, that focuses in the acquisition of biopotential signals. Through time, a lot of research has been done on the acquisition of biopotential signals and a variety of methods...

Design and Evaluation of a Visual Interface for an En Route Air Traffic Control Merging Task

In the past decades, air traffic growth has resulted in increasingly complex situations. In order to guarantee safety and efficiency is maintained, new automation tools and interfaces must be developed. In collaboration with the Netherlands Air Navigation Service Provider, the Inbound Traffic Support System interface was developed. This display...