Z Specification of Gate and Apron Control Management at Airport by Nazir Ahmad Zafar, Fahad Alhumaidan, Sher Afzal Khan

“…Modelling of an air traffic control (ATC) system is an open issue and has become a challenging problem due to its complexity and increase of traffic at airports and in airspace. …”
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Fuzzy Adaptive Prescribed Performance Fault-Tolerant Control for HFVs with Fixed-Time Convergence Guarantee by Zehong Dong, Yinghui Li, Maolong Lv, Zilong Zhao, Binbin Pei

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Band Selection Algorithm Based on Multi-Feature and Affinity Propagation Clustering by Junbin Zhuang, Wenying Chen, Xunan Huang, Yunyi Yan

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Guest editorial: Advanced signal processing for integration of radar and communication (IRC) by Bin Liao, Wei Liu, Ziyang Cheng, Tianyao Huang

“…Besides the military field, radar has been widely employed in daily life including weather service, air traffic control, autonomous driving and security monitoring. …”
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Development and challenges of autonomous electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft by Lijuan Hu, Xufei Yan, Ye Yuan

“…Finally, we conclude by providing future trends and recommendations of autonomous eVTOL aircraft technology, focusing on its interaction with air traffic control system, the adaptation of urban infrastructure, and the design of efficient human-machine interaction protocols.…”
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Change-Oriented Risk Management in Civil Aviation Operation: A Case Study in China Air Navigation Service Provider by Le-ping Yuan, Man Liang, Yiran Xie

“…The results from the preliminary evaluation show that the four key system change-oriented hazards are air traffic control (ATC) skills, staff capacity, control procedures, and airspace structure. …”
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Using the Functional Resonance Analysis Method (FRAM) in Aviation Safety: A Systematic Review by Wulin Tian, Carlo Caponecchia

“…The 26 FRAM studies in aviation explored many aspects of the aviation industry, including Air Traffic Control (ATC) systems, cockpit operation, ground handling, maintenance, and a range of past safety incidents, like runway incursions. …”
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A Single-Layer S/X- Band Shared Aperture Antenna with MIMO Characteristics at X-Band for Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar Applications by Raja Babu Bandi, Venkata Kishore Kothapudi, Lakshman Pappula, Rajkumar Kalimuthu, Srinivasa Kiran Gottapu

“…The S-band antenna is mainly used for airborne applications such as air traffic control and surface ship radar. In contrast, the X-band antenna application is maritime vessel traffic control, defense tracking, and vehicle speed detection for law enforcement. …”
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Air Transport Area as an Object of State Regulation by O. V. Brusakova

“…As a result of the legislative understanding of the composition of air transport, it is concluded that air transport in this case is understood in a broad sense not only as a set of direct aircraft, but also as a holistic system, which also includes a set of objects for ensuring air transport functioning, air traffic control, etc. It is emphasized that such an interpretation of air transport is not entirely appropriate, as it significantly expands the understanding of this term. …”
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The Influence of Errors in Visualization Systems on the Level of Safety Threat in Air Traffic by Paweł Ferduła, Jacek Skorupski

“…Air traffic management is carried out by air traffic controllers assisted by complex technical systems that provide them with visualization of the traffic situation. …”
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Learning Air Traffic as Images: A Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Airspace Operation Complexity Evaluation by Hua Xie, Minghua Zhang, Jiaming Ge, Xinfang Dong, Haiyan Chen

“…A sector is a basic unit of airspace whose operation is managed by air traffic controllers. The operation complexity of a sector plays an important role in air traffic management system, such as airspace reconfiguration, air traffic flow management, and allocation of air traffic controller resources. …”
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Air Traffic Safety Assurance Based on Flight Plan Risk Assessment and Early Warning by Ruiwei Liu, Siqi Hao, Yaping Zhang, Guan Lian

“…The achievements of the study are expected to provide assistance for air traffic controllers in strategic conflict avoidance and are of great significance in assuring air transport safety.…”
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Modeling and Invulnerability Analysis of Multilayer Air Traffic Network considering Altitude Layer by Guangjian Ren, Yin Liu

“…The results are helpful for air traffic controllers to manage airspace better and have significance for promoting air traffic safety and stability.…”
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Developing airport management practices towards net zero emissions: Experiences from the Australian aviation industry by Manori Dissanayaka, Tim Ryley, Bojana Spasojevic, Savindi Caldera

“…After reviewing environmental policies and reports from eight major airports and conducting in-depth interviews with 18 sustainable aviation experts, five key strategies are proposed: 1) Collaborating data-sharing among stakeholders, including airport operators, ground handlers, airlines and air traffic controllers; 2) Evaluating emissions from aircraft ground idling delays; 3) Advancing in the Airport Carbon Accreditation program; 4) Assessing air pollutant emissions directly emitted from airport sources; 5) Maintaining an air pollutant emissions inventory. …”
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Predicting Flight Trajectory in Convective Weather through Boosted Spatiotemporal Deep Learning Ensemble by Xi Zhu, Ke Zhang, Zhuxi Zhang, Lifei Tan

“…Flight trajectory prediction is one of the key issues in ensuring the safety of air traffic, providing the air traffic controller with the foresight of flight conflicts so that control instructions for pilots can be preconceived. …”
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Artificial intelligence in aviation English testing by Gökhan Demirdöken

“…Effective assessment of pilots’ and air traffic controllers’ aviation English (AE) proficiency is, therefore, crucial. …”
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Examining the Economic Costs of the 2003 Halloween Storm Effects on the North Hemisphere Aviation Using Flight Data in 2019 by Dabin Xue, Jian Yang, Zhizhao Liu, Shiwei Yu

“…We find that (a) as the high‐frequency communication blackouts may lead to polar flight rerouting and cancellations, possible daily economic costs could range from €0.21 million to €2.20 million per day; (b) during the satellite navigation failure period in the continental United States, as aircraft utilizes ground navigation aids as a backup, the increased flying time and disrupted descent approach operations may lead to additional cost of €2.43 million; (c) a surveillance failure can reduce airspace capacity and increase the workload of air traffic controllers, resulting in fatigue and perhaps risking flight safety; (d) to prevent massive cosmic radiation exposure, the economic costs of flight cancellations can be from €2.77 million to €48.97 million, depending on the cosmic radiation dose limits for a given plan. …”
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