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    • 4D Continuous Descent Operations Supported by an Electronic Flight Bag 

      Prats Menéndez, Xavier; Bendris, Bianca; Dalmau Codina, Ramon; Montolio, Josep; Day, Brent; Lenz, Helge; Kohrs, Ralf (2016)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      This paper describes a set of flight simulation experiments carried out with the DLR’s Generic Cockpit Simulator (GECO). A new concept named time and energy managed operations (TEMO), which aims to enable advanced four ...
    • A decision support tool for the establishment of new flight routes 

      Wu, Yan (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2011-09-30)
      Master thesis
      Restricted access - author's decision
      Revenue Management is concerned with demand-management decisions and the methodology and systems required to make them. It is widely used in airline industry and hotel industry. This project introduces the concept and ...
    • A novel framework to assess the wake vortex hazards risk supported by aircraft in en-route operations 

      Melgosa Farrés, Marc; Prats Menéndez, Xavier; Ruiz Navarro, Sergio; Tarragó, Joan; Busto, Javier; Steen, Meiko (2017)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      This paper presents the simulation environment developed within the framework of R-WAKE project, funded by SESAR 2020 Exploratory Research. This project aims to investigate the risks and hazards of potential wake ...
    • Aircraft tracking by means of the Acoustical Doppler Effect 

      Martín Román, Sara-Regina; Genesca Francitorra, Meritxell; Romeu Garbí, Jordi; Pàmies Gómez, Teresa (2013-07)
      Article
      Restricted access - publisher's policy
      The present paper presents a passive acoustic method for aircraft tracking. The Acoustical Doppler Effect, characteristic of signals received by a mesh of spatially distributed microphones is the basis of the method. A ...
    • Aircraft trajectory optimization according to weather conditions 

      Blanco Cabanillas, Adria (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2017-02-14)
      Bachelor thesis
      Open Access
      Covenantee:   Vilniaus Gedimino technikos universitetas
      In a currently congested and overbooked airspace, institutions and users of the aeronautical sector increasingly need a major organization and optimization of the air routes in order of reducing any kind of cost and mainly ...
    • Airspace complexity implementation for an Extended ATC Planner 

      Lentaigne Beneto, Nicolas-Eduardo (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2015-08-28)
      Master thesis (pre-Bologna period)
      Open Access
      Covenantee:   Sopra Steria
      This report describes the implementation of an airspace complexity server into the preindustrial prototype of the Extended ATC Planner. First, there is the description of the current ATC en-route control room situation, ...
    • Algoritmo de cálculo de rutas óptimas para aeronaves en el plano horizontal 

      Gonzalez Rodriguez, Ismael (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2011-01-25)
      Bachelor thesis
      Open Access
      El PFC consiste en la implementación de un algoritmo de cálculo de rutas óptimas para aeronaves en el plano horizontal. Para su realización se tendrá en cuenta la configuración del espacio aéreo y la meteorología. El sistema ...
    • An optimisation framework for aircraft operators dealing with capacity-demand imbalances in SESAR 

      Delgado Muñoz, Luis; Prats Menéndez, Xavier (2010)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      This paper presents a framework for the negotiation phase that is foreseen in the new operational concept proposed in the Single European Sky Research (SESAR) program. In particular, this paper describes a possible ...
    • An optimization method of formation flight for minimizing fuel consumption 

      Hu, Yue; Dai, Wei; Prats Menéndez, Xavier (2021-04)
      Article
      Open Access
      A method for formation flight trajectory optimization was established. This method aims at minimizing fuel consumption of a two-aircraft formation flight,without changing the original trajectory of the leader. Candidate ...
    • Analysis and optimization of radio spectrum pollution on 1030/1090MHz bands associated with mode-S transponders 

      Kaduk Aguilar, Borin (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-02-12)
      Bachelor thesis
      Open Access
      Aviation is a transportation means that is continuously growing as years pass by and it¿s here to stay. While aviation is a wide and complex subject involving an enormous variety of fields, this thesis will be focused on ...
    • Analysis of weather impact on flight efficiency for Stockholm Arlanda Airport arrivals 

      Lemetti, Anastasia; Polishchuk, Tatiana; Sáez García, Raúl; Prats Menéndez, Xavier (2021)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      Analysis of punctuality of airport arrivals, as well as identification of causes of the delays within transition airspace, is an important step in evaluating performance of the Terminal Maneuvering Area (TMA) Air Navigation ...
    • Analytical models for CO2 emissions and travel time for short-to-medium-haul flights considering available seats 

      Villardi de Montlaur, Adeline de; Delgado, Luis; Trapote Barreira, César (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2021-09-17)
      Article
      Open Access
      Recently, there has been much interest in measuring the environmental impact of short-to-medium-haul flights. Emissions of CO2 are usually measured to consider the environmental footprint, and CO2 calculators are available ...
    • Anàlisi de riscos derivats de la col·lisió entre fauna aèria i aeronaus 

      Sole Riba, Roger (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-06-29)
      Bachelor thesis
      Open Access
      Collisions betwen birds and aircraft are a recurring phenomenon since the very start of aviation itself. Even thought the chances of suffering an impact are relatively low, the consequences to the operational safety of the ...
    • Análisis de creación de rutas RNAV y ventajas asociadas 

      Toporcer Korec, Norman (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2009-06-26)
      Master thesis (pre-Bologna period)
      Restricted access - author's decision
      El método de la navegación de área, RNAV, ofrece una gran libertad a la hora de crear nuevas rutas para la aviación. Esta ventaja da paso a otras como la disminución del consumo de combustible en un vuelo si se consigue ...
    • Análisis de operaciones tierra en funcion del volumen de operaciones - transporte de equipajes 

      Teller Ferreti, Oriol (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-02-14)
      Bachelor thesis
      Restricted access - confidentiality agreement
      The aim of this project is to analyze the methodologies of the handling operations at Barcelona¿s airport, and for this purpose the handling methodology of two airlines with the largest number of operations have been taken ...
    • Análisis de protección de pasajeros en cancelaciones tácticas y diseño e implementación de herramienta de soporte al proceso 

      Piqueras Martinez, Jose Luis (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-09-13)
      Bachelor thesis
      Restricted access - confidentiality agreement
      On this document, it has been evaluated the impact due to Covid 19 pandemic on the design and development process for the schedule of flights for an airline. This project also proposes the design and implementation of a ...
    • Análisis y visualización de indicadores de la red de transporte aéreo en Europa 

      Mira Lluch, Javier; Lozano Castillo, Miriam (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2019-02-14)
      Bachelor thesis
      Restricted access - confidentiality agreement
    • Application for assisted VFR flight planning 

      Mir Hurtado, Arnau (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2023-07-14)
      Bachelor thesis
      Open Access
      The Flutter-based application developed in this study offers pilots a user-friendly interface, intuitive features, and real-time data integration. Through this application, pilots can easily create and modify flight routes, ...
    • Assessing ATM performance with simulation and optimisation tools: The APACHE project 

      Prats Menéndez, Xavier; Barrado Muxí, Cristina; Vidosavljevic, Andrija; Delahaye, Daniel; Netjasov, Fedja; Crnogorac, Dusan (2017)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      This paper describes the objectives and methodology of the APACHE project, a SESAR Exploratory Research project proposing a new framework to assess European air traffic management (ATM) performance. This framework ...
    • Assessment of the feasible CTA windows for efficient spacing with energy-neutral CDO 

      Dalmau Codina, Ramon; Prats Menéndez, Xavier (2016)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      Continuous descent operations (CDO) with con- trolled times of arrival (CTA) at one or several metering fixes could enable environmentally friendly procedures at the same time that terminal ...