2017

Lessons Learned from Airline Operations: The Achilles Heel of Autonomy: Functional Complexity Failures
Lance Sherry
ISAP 2017 Panel – From Here to Autonomy: Challenges and Promises.
May 11, 2017

Method for Calculating Net Radiative Forcing from Contrails from Airline Operations
Denis Avila (Ph.D. Candiadate), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
2017 Integrated Communications, Navigation, Surveillance (ICNS) Conference, Dulles, Va.
April 18-20, 2017

Simulation of Time-on-Procedure (ToP) for Evaluating Airline Procedures
Houda Kerkoub Kourdali (M.Sc. Candiadate), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
2017 Integrated Communications, Navigation, Surveillance (ICNS) Conference, Dulles, Va.
April 18-20, 2017

How Much Money Could Passengers Earn if the U.S. had European Airline Consumer Protection Laws?
Lance Sherry
2017 Integrated Communications, Navigation, Surveillance (ICNS) Conference, Dulles, Va.
April 18-20, 2017

2016

Available Operational Time Window (AOTW): A Method for Evaluating and Monitoring Airline Procedures
Houda Kourdali (B.Sc.), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
2016 Submitted. Revised May 2017.
December, 2016

Design of a Primary Flight Display (PFD) to Avoid Controlled Flight into Stall
Lance Sherry (CATSR/GMU, Ph.D.), Robert Mauro (Decision Research, Ph.D.) & Julia Trippe (U. Oregon, Ph.D. Candidate)
2016 Submitted. Revised June 2017.
December, 2016

A System Engineering Method for Analysis and Simulation of Standard Operational Procedures
Houda Kerkoub Kourdali (B.Sc., CFII), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
2016 HCIAero, Paris, France
September 14-16, 2016

Method and Apparatus for Probabilistic Alerting of Aircraft Unstabilized Approaches using Big Data
Sherry, Wang, Shortle
Provisional U.S. Patent
September, 2016

Application of Common Cause Failure Methodology to Aviation Safety Assessment Model
Seungwon Noh (Ph.D. Candidate), John Shortle (Ph.D.)
2016 ICRAT, Philadelphia, PA.
June 20 – 24, 2016
Best Paper Award in Track: Safety and Human Performance
Improving the Nowcast of Unstable Approaches
Zhenming Wang (Ph.D. Candidate), Lance Sherry, (Ph.D.), John Shortle (Ph.D.)
2016 ICRAT, Philadelphia, PA.
June 20 – 24, 2016

Dissertation: A Methodology for Nowcasting Unstable Approaches
Zhenming Wang (Ph.D.), Co-Chairs: Lance Sherry (Ph.D.) & John Shortle (Ph.D.)
Dissertation: System Engineering and Operartions Research, George Mason University
April, 2016

Feasibility of Using Historical Flight Track Data to Nowcast Unstable Approaches
Zhenming Wang (Ph.D. Candiadate), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.), John Shorle (Ph.D.)
2016 Integrated Communications, Navigation, Surveillance (ICNS) Conference, Dulles, Va.
April 19-21, 2016

Generating Flight Operations Quality Assurance (FOQA) Data from the X-Plane Simulation
Anvardh Nanduri (M.Sc.), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
2016 Integrated Communications, Navigation, Surveillance (ICNS) Conference, Dulles, Va.
April 19-21, 2016

A Comparison of Standard Operating Procedures for the Takeoff Flap Retraction Procedure
Houda Kourdali (M.Sc. Candidate), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
2016 Integrated Communications, Navigation, Surveillance (ICNS) Conference, Dulles, Va.
April 19-21, 2016

Method for Analysis of Ice Super Saturated Regions in the Contiguous U.S. Airspace
Denis Avila (Ph.D. Candidate), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
2016 Integrated Communications, Navigation, Surveillance (ICNS) Conference, Dulles, Va.
April 19-21, 2016

Anomaly Detection in Aircraft Data using Recurrent Neural Networks
Anvardh Nanduri (M.Sc.), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
2016 Integrated Communications, Navigation, Surveillance (ICNS) Conference, Dulles, Va.
April 19-21, 2016

Model-based Design of Human-Machine Interaction
Lance Sherry (Ph.D.), Houda Kourdali (M.Sc. Candidate)
Internal Report.
Jan, 2016

2015

Dissertation: Methodology for Simulation and Analysis of Preemptive Rebooking for Cancelled Airline Pasengers
Sanja Avramovic (Ph.D.), Chair: Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
Dissertation: Information Technology, George Mason University
June, 2015

Sensitivity Analysis of Event Sequence Diagram for Aircraft Accident Scenarios
Seungwon Noh (Ph.D. Student), John F. Shortle (Ph.D.)
In Proceedings 34th Digital Avionics Systems Conference
September 13-17, 2015

Enhancing Airline Handling of Large-Scale Flight Cancelation Events Through Pre-emptive Rebooking
Sanja Avramovic (Ph.D.), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
Submitted
June, 2015

Design for Resilience in Autonomous Systems: Lessons Learned from Controlled Flight into Stall Accidents
Lance Sherry (CATSR/GMU). Robert Mauro (Decision Research & University of Oregon)
CATSR Internal Report
June, 2015

Mitigating Functional Complexity Failures: Designing the Operator Inside the Vehcile OODA-Loop
Lance Sherry (CATSR/GMU). Robert Mauro (Decision Research & University of Oregon)
In Proceedings 2015 Integrated Communications, Navigation, Surveillance (ICNS) Conference, Dulles, Va.
April 21-23, 2015

Quantifying the Benefits of Pre-emptive Rebooking: A Case-study for a Netwiork Carrier (Jan 12, 2012)
Lance Sherry, Sanja Avramovic
In Proceedings 2015 Integrated Communications, Navigation, Surveillance (ICNS) Conference, Dulles, Va.
April 21-23, 2015

Airspace Risk Management using Surveillance Track Data: Stablized Approaches
Zhenming Wang (Ph.D. Candidadte), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.), John Shortle (Ph.D.)
In Proceedings 2015 Integrated Communications, Navigation, Surveillance (ICNS) Conference, Dulles, Va.
April 21-23, 2015

Functional Complexity Failures and Automation Surprises: The Mysterious Case of Controlled Flight into Stall
Lance Sherry (CATSR/GMU). Robert Mauro (Decision Research & University of Oregon)
18th International Symposium on Aviation Psychology, Dayton, Ohio.
May 4 – 7, 2015

2014

A Method for Quantifying Travel Productivity for Corporate Travel Managers
Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
Journal of AIr Transport Management, Volume 42, January 2015, Pages 118 to 124
2015

Improving the Accuracy of Airport Emissions Inventories using Disparate Data Sets
Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
IIE Transactions, Vol 47
2015

Flight Rescheduling Decisions for Minimizing Passenger Trip Delays
Susan Farley (Ph.D.), Alexander Brodsky (Ph.D.), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
Journal of Intelligent Decision Technologies, Volume 8, Issue 1, Pages 35-44
January 2014

Modernizing the U.S. Air Navigation Service
Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
Robert Schuman Working Paper – Netywork Quarterly, Eurpean University Institute
Nov, 2014

Design of Cockpit Displays to Explicitly Suppoprt Flightcrew Intervention Tasks
Lance Sherry (CATSR/GMU), Robert Mauro (University of Oregon)
In Proceedings 33rd Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC), Colorado Springs, Co.
Oct, 2014

An Analysis of the Benefits of RNP Approavches at Midway Airport
Akshay Belle (Ph.D), Lance Sherry (Ph.D)
Internal CATSR Report
Aug, 2014

Dissertation: A Probabilistic Methodology to Identify Top Causal Factors for High Complexity Events from Data
Firdu Bati (Ph.D.), Director: Lance Sherry (Ph.D.), Chair: Dr. James Gentle
Dissertation, Computational Sciences and Informatics, George Mason University
April, 2014

Dissertation: A Methodology for Collision Risk Assessment for an Airspace Flow Corridor Concept
Yimin Zhang (Ph.D.), Director: John Shortle (Ph.D.) and Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
Dissertation, System Engineering and Operations Research (SEOR), George Mason University
April, 2014

Dissertation: Economic Efficiency of Air Naviagtion Service Providers: An Assessment in Europe
Rui Neiva (Ph.D.), Director: Ken Button (Ph.D.)
Dissertation, Public Policy, George Mason University
April, 2014

Controlled Flight into Stall: Functional Complexity Failures and Automation Surprises
Lance Sherry (CATSR/GMU), Robert Mauro (University of Oregon)
In Proceedings 2014 Integrated Communications Navigation and Surveillance (ICNS)Conference, Dulles, Va.
April, 2014

Safety Comparison of Centralized and Distributed Aircraft Separation Assurance Concepts
John Shortle (Ph.D.), Yimin Zhang (Ph.D. Candidate)
IEEE Transaction on Reliability, , Vol. 63, No. 1
March, 2014

2013

Dissertation: A Methodology for Analysis of Metroplex Air Traffic Flows
Akshay Belle (Ph.D.), Director: Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
Dissertation, System Engineering and Operations Research, George Mason University
November, 2013
Collision Risk-Capacity Tradeoff Analysis of an En-route Corridor Model
Boija Ye (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics), Minghua Hu (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics), John Shortle (CATSR/GMU)
Chinese Journal of Aeronautics (CJA)
Sept, 2013

Estimating Takeoff Thrust from Surveillance Track Data
Lance Sherry (Ph.D.), Saba Neyshaboury (Ph.D. Student)
CATSR Internal Report
Sept 2013

Analysis of Airport Surface Operartions: A Case-study of Atlanta Airport
Saba Neyshaboury (Ph.D. Student), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
Submitted Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting
Jan 1216, 2014

Safety Comparison of Centralized and Distributed Automated Separation Concepts
John Shortle (Ph.D.), Yimin Zhang (Ph.D. Candidate)
IEEE Transactions on Reliability
June, 2013

Estimated Fuel Burn Performance for MDW Arrivals
Akshay Belle (Ph.D. Candidate), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
Submitted American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Aviation Technology, Integration and Operations, Los Angeles, Aug 11-13, 2013
August, 2013

Big Data Analysis of Irregular Operations: Aborted Approaches and their Underlying Factors
Lance Sherry (Ph.D.), Zhenming Wang (Ph.D. Student), Houda Kourdali (B.Sc. Student), John Shortle (Ph.D.)
6th Integrated Communications Navigation and Surveillance (ICNS)Conference, Dulles, Va.
April, 2013

A Methodology for Airport Arrival Flow Analysis Using Track Data – A Case Study for MDW Arrivals
Akshay Belle (Ph.D. Candidate), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.), Michael Wambsganns (Crown Consulting), Anastasia Mukhina (Crown Consulting)
6th Integrated Communications Navigation and Surveillance (ICNS)Conference, Dulles, Va.
April, 2013

Airport Surface Gridlock Analysis: A Case Study of Chicago O Hare 2007
Saba Neysabouri, (Ph.D. Student), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.), Karla Hoffman (Ph.D.)
6th Integrated Communications Navigation and Surveillance (ICNS)Conference, Dulles, Va.
April, 2013

2012

A Model for Estimating Airline Passenger Trip Reliability Metrics from System-wide Flight Simulations
Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
Journal of Transport Literature (JTL-RELIT), Vol 7, No. 2, pp. 319-337
April, 2013

Dissertation: A Methodology for Evaluating Economic and Policy Impacts on Airline and Passenger Behavior
John Ferguson (Ph.D.), Director: Karla Hoffman (Ph.D.)
Dissertation, Systems Engneering and Operations Research, George Mason University
May, 2012

Safety and Sensistivity Analysis of the Advanced Airspace Concept for NextGen
John Shortle & Lance Sherry (GMU), Arash Yousefi, & Richard Xie (Metron Aviation)
The Integrated Communications Navigation and Surveillance (ICNS) Conference, Dulles, Virgina
April 24-26, 2012

Comparison of Efficiency of Slot Allocation by Congestion Pricing and Ration by Schedule
Saba Neyshaboury (Ph.D. Student), Vivek Kumar (Ph.D.), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.), Karla Hoffman (Ph.D.)
The Integrated Communications Navigation and Surveillance (ICNS) Conference, Dulles, Virgina
April 24-26, 2012

Analysis of Alternative Collaborative Route Selection Strategies based on Cost and Throughput
Bojia Ye (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics), Lance Sherry (GMU), Chun-Hung Chen (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics)
The Integrated Communications Navigation and Surveillance (ICNS) Conference, Dulles, Virgina
April 24-26, 2012

A Method for Universal Beacon Code Allocation
Vivek Kumar & Lance Sherry, (GMU), Richard Jehlen (FAA)
The Integrated Communications Navigation and Surveillance (ICNS) Conference, Dulles, Virgina
April 24-26, 2012

Turnaround Prediction with Stochastic Process Times and Airport Specific Delay Pattern
Bernd Oreschko, Thomas Kunze, Michael Schultz, Hartmut Fricke (Technische Universit�t Dresden, Germany), Vivek Kumar & Lance Sherry (GMU)
5th International Conference on Research in Air Transportation � ICRAT 2012, Berkley, Ca.
May 22-25, 2012

Sensitivity Analysis of Potential Wake Encounters to Stochastic Flight-Track Parameters
Zhenming Wang (Ph.D.Student), Jianfeng Wang (Ph.D. Candidate), John Shortle (Ph.D.)
5th International Conference on Research in Air Transportation � ICRAT 2012, Berkley, Ca.
May 22-25, 2012

Estimation of Potential Conflict Rates as a Function of Sector Loading
Akshay Belle (Ph.D. Student), John Shortle (Ph.D.), & Arash Yousefi (Metron Aviation)
5th International Conference on Research in Air Transportation � ICRAT 2012, Berkley, Ca.
May 22-25, 2012

Risk-capacity Tradeoff Analysis of an En-route Corridor Model
Bojia Ye, Dr. Chun-Hung Chen (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics), Dr. Johmn Shortle (GMU)
5th International Conference on Research in Air Transportation � ICRAT 2012, Berkley, Ca.
May 22-25, 2012

Robust Method for Universal Beacon Code Assignment
Vivek Kumar & Lance Sherry, (GMU), Richard Jehlen (FAA)
Submitted Air Traffic Control Quarterly
March, 2012

An Enhancement to the Current Cooperative Decision Making Process for Capacity Allocation: Tradable Permits
Frank Berardino (GRA Inc.), Karla Hoffman (GMU), George Hunter, Diego Escala, Huina Gao (Sensis Corp.)
NASA Final Report
December, 2011

2011

Dissertation: A Congestion Pricing Model to Handle �Day of Operations� Airport Capacity Reductions
Abdul Qadar Kara (Ph.D.), Director: Karla Hoffman (Ph.D.)
Dissertation, Information Yechnology, George Mason University
July, 2011

Dissertation: Methods for Universal Beacon Code Assignment
Vivek Kumar (Ph.D.), Director: Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
Dissertation, System Engineering and Operations Research, George Mason University
July, 2011
Video of Final Defense (sound quality poor)
Passenger Trip Delay Statistics for 2010
Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
Submitted Transportation Review Board 91st Annual Meeting
January, 2012
Modeling Passenger Trip Reliability: Why NextGen May Not Improve Passenger Delays
Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
The Journal of Air Traffic Control, Volume 53, #3, August 2011
August, 2011
Static Sectorization Approach to Dynamic Airspace Configuration Using Approximate Dyanmic Programming
Sameer Kulkarni (M.Sc.), Rajesh Ganesan (Ph.D.), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
5th Integrated Communications Navigation and Surveillance Conference (2011), Dulles, Virginia
May 10-12, 2011
Using an Equilibrium Model to Forecast Airline Behavior in response to Economic or Regulatory Changes
John Ferguson (Ph.D. Candidate), Karla Hoffman (Ph.D.), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.), George Donohue (Ph.D.), Abdul Qadar Kara(Ph.D. Candidate)
5th Integrated Communications Navigation and Surveillance Conference (2011), Dulles, Virginia
May 10-12, 2011
Adaptive Agents in NAS-Wide Simulations: A Case-study of COTP and SWIM
Guillermo Calderom-Meza, (Ph.D.), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
5th Integrated Communications Navigation and Surveillance Conference (2011), Dulles, Virginia
May 10-12, 2011
Beacon Code Usage Statistics
Vivek Kumar, (Ph.D. Candidate), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
5th Integrated Communications Navigation and Surveillance Conference (2011), Dulles, Virginia
May 10-12, 2011
NAS-wide Simulation and Passenger Itinerary Performance: Implications for NextGen Benefits Analysis
Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
5th Integrated Communications Navigation and Surveillance Conference (2011), Dulles, Virginia
May 10-12, 2011
Analysis of the Contribution of Flightplan Route Selection to Enroute Delays Using RAMS
Akshay Belle, (Ph.D. Candidate), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
5th Integrated Communications Navigation and Surveillance Conference (2011), Dulles, Virginia
May 10-12, 2011
Dissertation: An Analysis of the Effects of Net-Centric Operations Using Multi-Agent Adaptive Behavior
Gullermo Calderon-Meza (Ph.D.), Director: Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
Dissertation, Information Technology, George Mason University
March, 2011
Video of Final Defense
Dissertation: Methodology for Analysis, Modeling, and Simulation of Airport Gate-Waiting Delays
Jianfeng Wang (Ph.D.), Director: John Shortle (Ph.D.) and Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
Dissertation, System Engineering & Operations Research Department, George Mason University
January, 2011
Video of Final Defense (Note: 0 to 21 minutes no sound)
Estimating Domestic U.S. Airline Cost of Delay based on European Model
John Ferguson (Ph.D. Candidate), Abdul Qadar Kara (Ph.D. Candidate), Karla Hoffman (Ph.D.),Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
Special Issue of the journal Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies
Submitted Nov, 2010

2010

Report: Total Delay Impact Study: A Comprehensive Assessment of the Costs and Impacts of Flight Delay in the United States
NEXTOR – The National Center of Excellence in Aviation Operations
Prepared for Federal Aviation Administration Air Traffic Organization Strategy and Performance Business Unit
Oct, 2010
Report: Optimizing Air Transportation Service to Metroplex Airports Part 1: Analysis of Historical Data
George Donohue (Ph.D.), Karla Hoffman (Ph.D.), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.), John Ferguson (Ph.D. Candidate), Abdul Qadar Kara (Ph.D. Candidate)
NASA Contractor Report: NASA/CR�2010-216860
Oct, 2010
Report: Optimizing Air Transportation Service to Metroplex Airports Part II: Analysis Using the Airline Schedule Optimization Model (ASOM)
George Donohue (Ph.D.), Karla Hoffman (Ph.D.), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.), John Ferguson (Ph.D. Candidate), Abdul Qadar Kara (Ph.D. Candidate)
NASA Contractor Report: NASA/CR�2010-216861
Oct, 2010
Report: System Design and Analysis: Tools for Automation Interaction Design and Evaluation Methods
Lance Sherry (Ph.D.), Bonnie John (Ph.D. – CMU), Marilyn Blackmon (Ph.D. – CU), Peter Polson (Ph.D. – CU), Maricel Medina (M.Sc. Candidate – GMU), Teo Longwhee (Ph.D. Candidate – CMU)
NASA NRA NNX07AO67A Final Report
Nov, 2010
The Relationship Between Rationalized Schedules and Reduced Arrival Variability
John Shortle (Ph.D.), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics: 10th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conference
Sept, 2010
Trends in Airline Passenger Trip Delays (2007): A Multi-Segment Itinerary Analysis
Lance Sherry (Ph.D.), Ashwin Samant (Ph.D. Candidate), Guilermo Calderom-Meza (Ph.D. Candidate)
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics: 10th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conference
Sept, 2010
Simulated Task Environment for HCI Analysis of NextGen Data Comm
Maricel Medina (M.Sc. Candidate), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.), Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers (PHoppenbrouwers Engineering), Deborah Boehm-Davis(Ph.D.)
HCI-Aero 2010 Conference, Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA
November 3-5, 2010,
The Effects of Airline Adaptive Route Selection on NAS-wide Performance
Guillermo Calderon-Meza (Ph.D. Candidate), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics: 10th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conference
Sept, 2010
Forecasting Airline Scheduling Behavior for the Newark Airport in the Presence of Economic or Regulatory Changes
John Ferguson (Ph.D. Candidate), Karla Hoffman (Ph.D.) Lance Sherry (Ph.D.), Abdul Qadar Kara (Ph.D. Candidate)
CATSR/GMU Internal Report
Sept, 2010
Dissertation: A Method for Stakeholder-based Comparitive Benchmarking of Airports
David Schaar (Ph.D.), Director: Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
Dissertation, System Engineering & Operations Research Department, George Mason University
July, 2010
Trends in Airline Passenger Trip Delays (2007-2009)
Lance Sherry (Ph.D.), Guillermo Calderon-Meza (Ph.D. Candidate), Ashwin Samant (M.Sc. Candidate)
2010 Integrated Communications Navigation and Surveillance (ICNS) Conference
May 11-13, 2010
Airline Response to Changing Economics and Policy
John Ferguson (Ph.D. Candidate), Karla Hoffman (Ph.D.), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.), George Donohue (Ph.D.), Abdul Qadar Kara (Ph.D. Candidate), Rosa Oseguera-Lohr (NASA, Ph.D.)
2010 Integrated Communications Navigation and Surveillance (ICNS) Conference
May 11-13, 2010
Rethinking Airport Improvement: Analysis of Domestic Airline Service to U.S. Metroplex Airports
David Schaar (Ph.D. Candidate), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.), George L. Donohue (Ph.D.)
CASTR Internal Report CASTR-01-2010
March 2010
Analysis of Airport Stakeholders
David Schaar (Ph.D. Candidate), Lance Sherry(Ph.D.)
2010 Integrated Communications Navigation and Surveillance (ICNS) Conference
May 11-13, 2010
Analysis of Stakeholder Benefits of NextGen Trajectory-based Operatoins
Guillermo Calderon-Meza (Ph.D. Candidate), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
2010 Integrated Communications Navigation and Surveillance (ICNS) Conference
May 11-13, 2010
Analysis of Performance of Q-Routes for Establishing Future Airway Design Criteria
Akshay Bele (Ph.D. Candidate), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.), Arash Yousefi (Ph.D. Metron Aviation), Jerome Lard (Ph.D. Metron Aviation)
2010 Integrated Communications Navigation and Surveillance (ICNS) Conference
May 11-13, 2010
Analysis of Tarmac Delays at New York Airports
Maricel Medina (M.Sc.), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
2010 Integrated Communications Navigation and Surveillance (ICNS) Conference
May 11-13, 2010
Tarmac Delay Surveillance and Mitigation System: Requirements Analysis for NextGen
Lance Sherry (Ph.D.), Maricel Medina (M.Sc.)
2010 Integrated Communications Navigation and Surveillance (ICNS) Conference
May 11-13, 2010
Sensitivity Analysis to the Cost of Delay Model for NextGen Benefits Analysis
Abdul Qadar Kara (Ph.D. Candidate), John Ferguson (Ph.D. Candidate), Karla Hoffman (Ph.D.), Lance Sherry(Ph.D.)
2010 Integrated Communications Navigation and Surveillance (ICNS) Conference
May 11-13, 2010
A Statistical Analysis of the Aircraft Landing Process
Babak Ghalebsaz-Jeddi (Ph.D.), George L. Donohue (Ph.D.), John F. Shortle (Ph.D.)
Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp 152-169
Fall 2009
Statistical Characteristics of Aircraft Arrival Tracks
John Shortle (Ph.D.), Y. Zhang (Ph.D. Candidate), J. Wang.(M.Sc.)
Transportation Research Record
2010
Workshop: Innovations in NAS-wide Simulation in Support of NextGen Benefits Analysis (2nd Annual)
Sponsors: Joe Post (FAA), Lance Sherry (CATSR/GMU)
Center for Air Transportation Systems Research (CATSR) at George Mason University
Jan 27-28, 2010
Comparison of Arrival Tracks at Different Airports
Yimin Zhang (Ph.D. Candidate), John Shortle (Ph.D.)
Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Research in Air Transportation – ICRAT 2010, Budapest Hungary
June 01 – 04, 2010
Towards Universal Beacon Code Assignment
Vivek Kumar (Ph.D. Candidate), Lance Sherry(Ph.D.)
Proceedings 4th International Conference on Research in Air Transportation – ICRAT 2010, Budapest Hungary
June 01 – 04, 2010
Estimating Domestic U.S. Airline Cost of Delay based on European Model
Abdul Qadar Kara(Ph.D. Candidate), John Ferguson(Ph.D. Candidate), Karla Hoffman(Ph.D.), Lance Sherry(Ph.D.)
Proceedings 4th International Conference on Research in Air Transportation – ICRAT 2010, Budapest Hungary
June 01 – 04, 2010
Establishing an Upper-Bound for the Benefits of NextGen Trajectory-Based Operations
Guillermo Calderon-Meza(Ph.D. Candidate), Lance Sherry(Ph.D.)
Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Research in Air Transportation – ICRAT 2010, Budapest Hungary
June 01 – 04, 2010

2009

Analysis of Gate-Waiting Delays at Major US Airports
Jianfeng Wang (Ph.D. Candidate), John Shortle (Ph.D.), Juan Wang (M.Sc. Candidate), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
9th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference (ATIO) and Aircraft Noise and Emissions Reduction Symposium (ANERS)
September 21 – 23, 2009
Effects of Fuel Prices on Air Transportation Market Average Fares and Passenger Demand
John Ferguson (Ph.D. Candidate), Karla Hoffman (Ph.D.), Abdul Kara (Ph.D. Candidate), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
9th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference (ATIO) and Aircraft Noise and Emissions Reduction Symposium (ANERS)
September 21 – 23, 2009
Effects of Airline Strategies on Airline Operations and Infrastructure Utilization
Guillermo Calderon-Meza (Ph.D. Candidate), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
9th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference (ATIO) and Aircraft Noise and Emissions Reduction Symposium (ANERS)
September 21 – 23, 2009
Towards a Formal Definition of Pilot Proficiency: Estimating the Benefits of Human Factors Engineering in NextGen Development
Lance Sherry (Ph.D.), Michael Feary (Ph.D. NASA), Karl Fennell (M.Sc. UAL), Peter Polson (Ph.D. Univ. Colorado)
9th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference (ATIO) and Aircraft Noise and Emissions Reduction Symposium (ANERS)
September 21 – 23, 2009
Why Equity is so Elusive: Dynamical Properties of Overscheduled National Airspace System Resources
Lance Sherry (Ph.D.), John Shortle (Ph.D.), Vivek Kumar (Ph.D. Candidate)
9th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference (ATIO) and Aircraft Noise and Emissions Reduction Symposium (ANERS)
September 21 – 23, 2009
Dissertation: Scalable Approximate Dynamic Programming Models with Applications in Air Transportation
Poornima Balakrishna (Ph.D.), Directors: Rajesh Ganesan (Ph.D.) & Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
Dissertation, System Engineering & Operations Research Department, George Mason University
July, 2009
Statistical Characteristics of Aircraft Arrival Tracks
John Shortle (Ph.D.), Yimin Zhang (Ph.D. Candidate), Juan Wang (M.Sc. Candidate)
Submitted Transportation Research Board, 89th Annual Meeting, January, 2010, Washington, D.C.
August 1, 2009
Trends in Airline Passenger Trip Delays: Exploring the Design of the Passenger Air Transportation Service
Lance Sherry (Ph.D.), Guillermo Calderon-Meza (Ph.D. Candidate), George Donohue (Ph.D.)
Submitted Transportation Research Board, 89th Annual Meeting, January, 2010, Washington, D.C.
August 1, 2009
Analysis of New York La Guradia Airport Gate-Waiting Delays
Jianfeng Wang (Ph.D. Candidate), John Shortle (Ph.D.), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
Submitted Transportation Research Board, 89th Annual Meeting, January, 2010, Washington, D.C.
August 1, 2009
Runway Occupany Time Extraction and Analysis using Surface Track Data
Vivek Kumar (Ph.D. Candidate), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.), Rafal Kicinger (Ph.D.)
Submitted Transportation Research Board, 89th Annual Meeting, January, 2010, Washington, D.C.
August 1, 2009
Effects of Fuel Prices on Air Transportation Performance at New York and San Francisco Airports
John Ferguson (Ph.D. Candidate), Karla Hoffman (Ph.D.), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.), Abdul Qadar Kara (Ph.D. Candidate)
2009 ICNS Conference, Washington, D.C.
May 13-15, 2009
Multi-agent Simulation of NAS Infrastructure Utilization in the Presence of Airline Policies
Gullermo Calderon-Meza (Ph.D. Candidate), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
2009 ICNS Conference, Washington, D.C.
May 13-15, 2009
Airport Throughput Capacity Limits for Demand Management Planning
Vivek Kumar (Ph.D. Candidate), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
2009 ICNS Conference, Washington, D.C.
May 13-15, 2009
Why Equity is a Pipedream: A Mathematical Model of the Dynamics of Overscheduled Resources
Lance Sherry (Ph.D.), John Shortle (Ph.D.)
2009 ICNS Conference, Washington, D.C.
May 13-15, 2009
New Report! U.S. Airline Passenger Trip Delay Report (2008)
Lance Sherry (Ph.D.), George Donohue (Ph.D.)
Center for Air Transportation Systems Research, George Mason University
April 4, 2009
Methodology for Estimation of Benefits of Human-Computer Interaction Engineering in NextGen/SESAR Development
Lance Sherry (Ph.D./GMU), Michael Feary (Ph.D./NASA), Jerome Lard (Ph.D./THALES), Captain Karl Fennell (United Airlines)
Eighth USA/Europe Air Traffic Management Research and Development Seminar (ATM2009)
Jan 23, 2009
Trading-off Multi-Dimensional NAS Performance and Equity Metrics Using Data Envelopment Analysis
David Schaar (Ph.D. Candidate), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
Submitted Eighth USA/Europe Air Traffic Management Research and Development Seminar (ATM2009)
Jan 23, 2009
Application of Reinforcement Learning Algorithms for Predicting Taxi-out Times
Poornima Balakrishna (Ph.D. Candidate), Rajesh Ganesan (Ph.D.), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
Eighth USA/Europe Air Traffic Management Research and Development Seminar (ATM2009)
Jan 23, 2009
Effects of Fuel Prices and Slot Controls on Air Transportation Performance at New York Airports
John Ferguson (Ph.D. Candidate), Karla Hoffman (Ph.D.), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.), Abdul Qadar Kara (Ph.D. Candidate), Guillermo Calderon (Ph.D. Candidate)
Eighth USA/Europe Air Traffic Management Research and Development Seminar (ATM2009)
Jan 23, 2009
Analysis of Gate Hold Delays at the OEP-35 Airports
John Shortle (Ph.D.), Jianfeng Wang (Ph.D. Candidate), Juan Wang (Ph.D. Candidate), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
Submitted Eighth USA/Europe Air Traffic Management Research and Development Seminar (ATM2009)
Jan 23, 2009
Multi-agent Simulation of Airline Operations and Infrastructure Utilization in the Presence of Airline Strategies
Guillermo Calderon-Mesa (Ph.D. Candidate), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
Submitted Eighth USA/Europe Air Traffic Management Research and Development Seminar (ATM2009)
Jan 23, 2009

2008

Workshop: NAS-wide Simulation in Support of NextGen: Requirements and Capabilities
Coordinator: Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
Center for Air Transportation Systems Research (CATSR) at George Mason University
Dec 10, 2008
Dissertation: Minimizing the Pain in Air Transportation: Analysis of Performance and Equity in Ground Delay Programs
Bengi Manley (Ph.D.), Director: Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
Dissertation, Volgeneau School of Information Technology & Engineering, George Mason University
July 28, 2008
Air Travel at the Edge of Chaos
George Donohue (Ph.D.)
Proceedings International Conference on Research in Air Transportation (ICRAT-2008), Fairfax, VA, 2008
June 1-4, 2008
NEW Book! Terminal Chaos: Why U.S. Air Travel is Broken and How to Fix It
George L. Donohue, Russell D. Shaver III, with Eric Edwards
American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Library of Flight, Editor: Ned Allen
Spring, 2008.

Dissertation: A Statistical Separation Standard and Risk-Throughput Modeling of the Aircraft Landing Process
Babak Ghalebsaz Jeddi (Ph.D.), Director: John Shortle (Ph.D.)
Dissertation, Volgeneau School of Information Technology & Engineering, George Mason University
Summer, 2008
Contrast-Set Mining of Aircraft Accidents and Incidents
Zohreh Nazeri (Ph.D.)
Book Chapter: Advances in Data Mining. Medical Applications, E-Commerce, Marketing, and Theoretical Aspects
Publisher: Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
Report! U.S. Airline Passenger Trip Delay: Annual Report (2007)
Lance Sherry (Ph.D.), George Donohue (Ph.D.)
Center for Air Transportation Systems Research, George Mason University
April 22, 2008
Dissertation: Decision Support Tool for Predicting Aircraft Arrival Rates from Weather Forecasts [17MB]
David Smith (Ph.D.), Director: Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
Dissertation, Volgeneau School of Information Technology & Engineering, George Mason University
March 22, 2008
Automated Tool for Task Analysis of NextGen Automation
Lance Sherry (Ph.D.), Maricel Medina (M.Sc. Candidate), Micheal Feary (Ph.D., NASA), Captain John Otiker (SWA)
Proceedings of the Eighth Integrated Communications, Navigation and Surveillance (ICNS) Conference (2008), Bethesda, MD
May 5-7, 2008
The Impact of Ground Delay Program (GDP) Rationing Rules on Passenger and Airline Equity
Bengi Manley (Ph.D. Candidate), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
Proceedings of the Eighth Integrated Communications, Navigation and Surveillance (ICNS) Conference (2008), Bethesda, MD
May 5-7, 2008
Metroplex Operations: Case Study of New York Metroplex Air Transportation System
George Donohue (Ph.D., GMU), Karla Hoffman (Ph.D., GMU), Liya Wang (Ph.D., GMU), Dan DeLaurentis (Ph.D., Purdue), Graduate Students (GMU & Purdue)
NASA Airspace Systems Program, Austin, TX, 2008
March 20, 2008
The Impact of Ground Delay Program (GDP) Rationing Rules on Passenger and Airline Equity
Bengi Manley (Ph.D. Candidate), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
Proceedings International Conference on Research in Air Transportation (ICRAT-2008), Fairfax, VA, 2008
Feb, 2008
Passenger Flow Simulation (PFS) In A Complex Networked Transportation System
Danyi Wang (Ph.D., Metron Aviation), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.), George Donohue (Ph.D.), Bert Hackney (Metron Aviation)
Proceedings International Conference on Research in Air Transportation (ICRAT-2008), Fairfax, VA, 2008
Feb, 2008
Decision Support Tool for Predicting Aircraft Arrival Rates, Ground Delay Programs, and Airport Delays from Weather Forecasts
David A. Smith (Ph.D. Candidate), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.), George Donohue (Ph.D.)
Proceedings International Conference on Research in Air Transportation (ICRAT-2008), Fairfax, VA, 2008
Feb, 2008
Passenger Trip Delays in the U.S. Airline Transportation System In 2007
Guillermo Calderon-Meza (Ph.D. Candidate), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.), George Donohue (Ph.D.)
Proceedings International Conference on Research in Air Transportation (ICRAT-2008), Fairfax, VA, 2008
Feb, 2008
Automation for Task Analysis of Next Generation Air Traffic Management Systems
Maricel Medina (M.Sc. Candidate), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.), Michael Feary (Ph.D., NASA-ARC)
Proceedings International Conference on Research in Air Transportation (ICRAT-2008), Fairfax, VA, 2008
Feb, 2008
Analyzing Relationships Between Aircraft Accidents and Incidents: A Data Mining Approach
Zohreh Nazeri (Ph.D., Mitre), George Donohue (Ph.D.), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
Proceedings International Conference on Research in Air Transportation (ICRAT-2008), Fairfax, VA, 2008
Feb, 2008
Analysis of Air Transportation for the New York Metroplex: Summer 2007
Liya Wang (Ph.D.), George Donohue (Ph.D.), Karla Hoffman (Ph.D.),Lance Sherry (Ph.D.), Rosa Oseguera-Lohr (Ph.D., NASA-ARC)
Proceedings International Conference on Research in Air Transportation (ICRAT-2008), Fairfax, VA, 2008
Feb, 2008
Comparison of Data Envelopment Analysis Methods Used in Airport Benchmarking
David Schaar (Ph.D. Candidate), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
Proceedings International Conference on Research in Air Transportation (ICRAT-2008), Fairfax, VA, 2008
Feb, 2008
Analysis of Emissions Inventory for �Single-Engine Taxi-out” Operations
Vivek Kumar (M.Sc.), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.), Terry Thompson (Ph.D., Metron Aviation)
Proceedings International Conference on Research in Air Transportation (ICRAT-2008), Fairfax, VA, 2008
Feb, 2008
Looking for the Capacity in NGATS
George Donohue (Ph.D.), John Shortle (Ph.D.), Babak Jeddi (Ph.D. Candidate)
Invited Talk: Transportation Research Board: NextGen Research on Aviation Capacity (Session Lead: Eugene Gilbo, Volpe Center)
Monday Jan 14, 2008
Statistical Comparison of Passenger Trip Delay and Flight Delay Metrics
Danyi Wang (Ph.D. Candidate), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.), Ning Xu (Ph.D. Candidate), Melanie Larson (M.Sc. Candidate)
Transportation Research Board, 88th Annual Meeting, January 11-15, 2008, Washington, D.C.
2008
Taxi-out Predictions using Approximate Dynamic Programming
Poornima Balakrishna (Ph.D. Candidate), Rajesh Ganesan (Ph.D.), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
Transportation Research Board, 88th Annual Meeting, January 11-15, 2008, Washington, D.C.
2008
Multi-factor Model for Predicting Delays at U.S. Airports
Ning Xu (Ph.D. Candidate), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.), Kathryn Laskey (Ph.D.)
Transportation Research Board, 88th Annual Meeting, January 11-15, 2008, Washington, D.C.
2008
Decision Support Tool for Predicting Ground Delay Programs (GDP) and Airport Delays from Weather Forecast Data
David Smith (Ph.D. Candidate), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
Transportation Research Board, 88th Annual Meeting, January 11-15, 2008, Washington, D.C. (Poster)
2008
Sensitivity of System Performance and Equity to User Cooperation in the Arrival Flow: Guidelines for NextGen
Lance Sherry (Ph.D.), Vivek Kumar (M.Sc.), Bengi Manley (Ph.D.), Maria Consiglio (NASA, Ph.D.)
Transportation Research Board, 88th Annual Meeting, January 11-15, 2008, Washington, D.C.(Poster)
2008
Syllabus: OR750/SYST660 Air Transportation System Engineering [doc]
Instructor: Lance Sherry (Ph.D.) Assoc. Professor – Research, SEOR & Exec. Dir. Center for Air Transportation Systems Research (CATSR)
Spring Semester 2008, System Engineering & Operations Research Department, George Mason University
Jan 14, 2008

2007

Dissertation: Method for Deriving Multi-Factor Models for Predicting Airport Delays
Ning Xu (Ph.D.), Co-Directors: Kathryn Laskey (Ph.D.), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
Dissertation, Volgeneau School of Information Technology & Engineering, George Mason University
Dec 07, 2007
Air Travel at the Edge of Chaos
George Donohue (Ph.D.)
NASA Ames Research Center – Directors Forum
Nov 16, 2007
Evidence that Airport Pricing Works
George Donohue (Ph.D.), Karla Hoffman(Ph.D.), Robert W. Poole Jr. (Reason Foundation)
Reason Foundation, Policy Brief No. 67
Nov 15, 2007
Dissertation: Cross Data-base Analysis to Identify Relationships Between Aircraft Accidents and Incidents
Zohreh Nazeri (Ph.D.), Advisor: George Donohue (Ph.D.)
Dissertation, Volgeneau School of Information Technology & Engineering, George Mason University
October 2007
GreenFlights.INFO – The Airline Travel website for Passengers that Care
Lance Sherry (Ph.D.), Danyi Wang (Ph.D.), Guillermo Calderon-Meza (Ph.D. Candidate)
Prototype Website
2007
NEXTOR Short Course: Aviation and the Environment – Issues and Methods
Dr. Terry Thomposn (Ph.D.) Affiliate Researcher, George Mason University
NEXTOR Workshop, George Mason University, Fairfax Campus, Research 1 Building
September 27-28, 2007
Dissertation: Methods For Analysis Of Passenger Trip Performance In A Complex Networked Transportation System
Danyi Wang (Ph.D.), Advisor: Lance Sherry(Ph.D.)
Dissertation, Systems Engineering and Operations Research Department, George Mason University
July 2007
Market-Based Alternatives for Managing Congestion at New York�s LaGuardia Airport
Michael O. Ball (University of Maryland), Lawrence M. Ausubel (University of Maryland), Frank Berardino (GRA, Inc.), Peter Cramton (University of Maryland), George Donohue (George Mason University), Mark Hansen (University of California, Berkeley), Karla Hoffman (George Mason University)
NEXTOR Center of Excellence Report
2007
Optimum Airport Capacity Utilization under Congestion Management: A Case Study of New York LaGuardia Airport
Loan Le (Ph.D.), George Donohue (Ph.D.), Karla Hoffman (Ph.D.), Chun-Hung Chen (Ph.D.)
Transportation Planning and Technology – Special Issue : Approaches for Developing the Airports of the Future
2007
Throughput, Risk, and Economic Optimality of Runway Landing Operations
Babak Jeddi (Ph.D. Candidate), John Shortle (Ph.D.)
USA/Europe ATM R&D Seminar, Barcelona, Spain, Paper 162
2007
A Comparison of Wake-Vortex Models for Use in Probabilistic Aviation Safety Analysis
Babak Jeddi (Ph.D. Candidate), John Shortle (Ph.D.)
In Proceedings of the 25th International System Safety Conference, eds. A. G. Boyer and N. J. Gauthier, Baltimore, MD, 2007, System Safety Society, 581-589
2007
Air Travel Consumer Protection: A Metric for Passenger On-Time Performance
Lance Sherry (Ph.D.), Danyi Wang (Ph.D. Candidate), George Donohue (Ph.D.)
CATRS/GMU Memorandum 2007
April 16, 2007
Comparison of Flight Delays and Passenger Trip Delays in the National Airspace System (NAS)
Danyi Wang (Ph.D. Candidate), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.), Ning Xu (Ph.D. Candidate), George Donohue (Ph.D.)
CATRS/GMU Memorandum 2007
April 24, 2007

Air Transportation: A Tale of Prisoners, Sheep and Autocrats (Slides)
George Donohue (Professor, SEOR Dept. & Director, Center for Air Transportation Systems Research)
George Mason University, Vision Series Lecture
Januray 29, 2007

Dr. George Donhue on NBC Today Show January 29, 2007 (Video)
Director, Center for Air Transportation Systems Research
NBC Today Show
Jan 29, 2007
Adaptive Control of Multistage Airport Departure Planning Process using Approximate Dynamic Programming
Rajesh Ganesan (Ph.D.), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
Proceedings IIE QC
February 15, 2007
A Stochastic Dynamic Programming Approach To Taxi-out Prediction Using Reinforcement Learning
Rajesh Ganesan (Ph.D.), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
Internal CATSR Report
January 31, 2007
Bayesian Network Analysis of Flight Delays
Ning Xu (Ph.D. Candidate), Kathryn B. Laskey (Ph.D.), Chun-hung Chen (Ph.D.), Shannon C. Williams (M.Sc. Candidate), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
2007 TRB 86th Annual Meeting, Washington D.C.
January 21-25, 2007
Probabilistic Analysis of Wake Vortex Hazards for Landing Aircraft Using Multilateration Data
John Shortle (Ph.D.), Babak Jeddi (Ph.D. Candidate)
2007 TRB 86th Annual Meeting, Washington D.C.
January 21-25, 2007
Portfolio Analysis of Air Transportation Infrastructure Investment
Bengi Mezhepoglu (Ph.D. Candidate), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
2007 TRB 86th Annual Meeting, Washington D.C.
January 21-25, 2007
Trend Analysis of Airline Passenger Trip Delays
Danyi Wang (Ph.D. Candidate), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
2007 TRB 86th Annual Meeting, Washington D.C.
January 21-25, 2007
Air Travel Consumer Protection: A Metric for Passenger On-time Performance
Lance Sherry (Ph.D.), Danyi Wang (Ph.D. Candidate)
2007 TRB 86th Annual Meeting, Washington D.C.
January 21-25, 2007
SYST 660/OR 750 Air Transportation System Engineering (.doc)
Systems Engineering & Operations Research Dept.
Spring 2007, GMU, Fairfax Campus, Research I, Room 405
Tuesdays 7:20pm
Simulation of Airport Operations at La Guardia Airport (Video 32.M avi)
Talking Points (.pdf)
Jianfeng “Jeffery” Wang (Ph.D. Candidate), Sasha Klein (Ph.D.)
Total Airspace and Airports Modeller, Courtesy of Preston Group, a subsidiary of Boeing
Jan, 2007

2006

Dissertation: Demand Management at Congested Airports: How Far Are We From Utopia?
Loan Le (Ph.D. 2006). Advisor: George Donohue (Ph.D.), Karla Hoffman (Ph.D.)
Dissertation, Systems Engineering and Operations Research Department, George Mason University
July, 2006

Statistical Separation Standards for the Aircraft-Approach Process
Babak Jeddi (Ph.D. Candidate), John Shortle (Ph.D.), Lance Sherry (Ph.D.)
Proceedings of the 25th Digital Avionics Systems Conference, 2A1-1 � 2A1-13
2006

Future Airport Design Considerations
George L. Donohue, Ph.D., Director, Center for Air Transportation Systems Research
2nd International Conference on Research in Air Transportation, ICRAT 2006, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
June 25, 2006

Underlying Problems and Major Research Issues Facing the US Air Transportation System
George L. Donohue, Ph.D., Director, Center for Air Transportation Systems Research
2nd International Conference on Research in Air Transportation – ICRAT 2006, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
June 24, 2006
Statistics of the Approach Process at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport
Babak Jeddi (Ph.D. Candidate), John Shortle (Ph.D.) and Lance Sherry (Ph.D)
2nd International Conference on Research in Air Transportation – ICRAT 2006, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
June 24, 2006
Passenger Trip Time Metric for Air Transportation
Danyi Wang (Ph.D. Candidate), Lance Sherry (Ph.D) and George Donohue (Ph.D.)
2nd International Conference on Research in Air Transportation – ICRAT 2006, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
June 24, 2006
Air Travel Consumer Protection: A Metric for Passenger On-Time Performance
Lance Sherry (Ph.D) and Danyi Wang Ph.D. Candidate)
Accepted for publication Transportion Research Record
Aug 7, 2006
Trends Analysis of Airline Passenger Trip Delays
Danyi Wang (Ph.D. Candidate) and Lance Sherry (Ph.D)
TRB 2007
Aug 7, 2006
Portfolio Analysis of Air Transportation Infrastructure Investment
Bengi Mezhepoglu (Ph.D. Candidate) and Lance Sherry (Ph.D)
TRB 2007
Aug 7, 2006
Propagation of Delays in the National Airspace System
Kathryn Laskey (Ph.D.) Ning Xu (Ph.D. Candidate) and C.H. Chen (Ph.D)
22nd Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, July 13th – July 16th, 2006, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
Aug 7, 2006
SYST 460/560 Introduction to Air Traffic Control

Fall 2006, GMU, Fairfax Campus, Research I, Room 405

2005

Intelligent Simulation for Alternatives Comparison and Application to Air Traffic Management
Chen, C. H. (Ph.D.), and D. He (Ph.D. Candidate)
Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp.37-51.
March 2005
Auction-Based Slot Allocation for Traffic Demand Management at Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport: A Case Study
Chen, Le, L. (Ph.D. Candidate), G. L. Donohue (Ph.D.), and C. H. Chen (Ph.D.)
Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 1888, pp. 50-58
January 2005
Estimation of Delay Propagation in the NAS Using Bayesian Networks
Xu, N.(Ph.D. Candidate), G. Donohue (Ph.D.), K. Laskey (Ph.D.), and C. H. Chen (Ph.D.)
Proceedings of 2005 Air Traffic Management Seminar, Baltimore, MD
June 2005
Quantitative estimation of wake vortex safety using the P2P model
Xie, Y., J. Shortle, P. Choroba
6th USA/Europe ATM R&D Seminar, Baltimore, MD, Paper 57
2005
Applying qualitative hazard analysis to support quantitative safety analysis for proposed reduced wake separation conops
Shortle, J., M. Allocco
6th USA/Europe ATM R&D Seminar, Baltimore, MD, Paper 82
April, 2005
2004

Simulating collision probabilities of landing airplanes at non-towered airports
Shortle, J., Y. Xie, C.H. Chen, G. Donohue
Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International, 80(1), 21-31.
2004
Assessment of wake vortex separation distance using the WAVIR toolset
Speijker, L., G. van Baren, L. Sherry, J. Shortle, F. Rico-Cusi
Proceedings of the 23rd Digital Avionics Systems Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, 2.E.2.1-2.E.2.11
2004
Airport terminal-approach safety and capacity analysis using an agent-based model
Xie, Y., J. Shortle, G. Donohue
Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference, Ingalls, R., et al. (eds.), 1349-1357
2004
Landing safety analysis of an independent arrival runway
Xie, Y., J. Shortle
Proceedings of the International Conference on Research in Air Transportation, Zilina, Slovakia, 45-51. Best session paper.
2004
A Case Study for Optimal Dynamic Simulation Allocation in Ordinal Optimization
Chen, C. H., D. He, and M. Fu
Proceeding of American Control Conference, pp. 5754-5759, Boston
June 2004
Seminal Concepts for a New Approach to Continuous-Variable Optimization Under Uncertainty: Probabilistic Ordinal Optimization
Romero, V. J., and C. H. Chen
Proceedings of 10th AIAA Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference, Albany NY
September 2004
2003

Investigation of En route Metrics for Model Validation and Airspace Design
Using the Total Airport and Airspace Modeler (TAAM)
Arash Yousefi , George L. Donohue, and Khurram M. Qureshi
5th EUROCONTROL/FAA ATM R&D  Conference, Budapest, Hungary
June 2003

Efficient simulation of the national airspace system
Shortle, J., D. Gross, B. Mark
Proceedings of the 2003 Winter Simulation Conference, Chick, S., et al. (eds.), 441-448
June 2003

Space-time Correlation Analysis of Quality-of Service at Major US Airports
Loan T. Le, George L. Donohue, and C. H. Chen
Proceedings of 22nd Digital Avionics Systems Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana
to be published

Proposal for Demand Management Using Auction-Based Arrival Slot Allocation
Loan T. Le, Sanaa Kholfi, George L. Donohue, and C. H. Chen
Proceedings of the 5th EUROCONTROL/ FAA ATM R&D Seminar, Budapest, Hungary
June 2003

Air Transportation Systems Engineering Book Review
George L. Donohue and Andres Zellweger
April 2003

SEOR ATL Research Summary
George L. Donohue, C. H. Chen, John Shortle and Karla Hoffma
April 2003

Optimal Computing Budget Allocation for Monte Carlo Simulation with Application to Product Design
C. H. Chen, K. Donohue, E. Yücesan, and J. Lin
Journal of Simulation Practice and Theory, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 57-74
March 2003

Simulating Collision Probabilities of Landing Airplanes at Non-towered Airports
John Shortle, Richard Xie, C. H. Chen and George L. Donohue
January 2003

2002

A Macroscopic Air Transportation Capacity Model: Metrics and Delay Correlation
George L. Donohue
October 2002

The U.S.  Air Transportation System: A Bold Vision for Change
George L. Donohue
September 2002

Very Efficient Simulation for Engineering Design Problem,” Modeling and Simulation-Based Life Cycle Engineering
C. H. Chen (K. Chong, S. Saigal, S. Thynell, Ed’s)
pp. 291-302, Spon Press, London
2002

United States Air Transportation Capacity: Limits to Growth
George L. Donohue and Russell D. Shaver
February 2002

Modeling the Performance of the National Airspace System
George L. Donohue, Manqin Luo, C. H. Chen, and R. Holland
Proceedings of 2002 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington, DC
January 2002

2001

An Efficient Approach Integrating Genetic Algorithm, Linear Programming, and Ordinal Optimization for Linear Mixed Integer Programming Problems
Luo, Y. C., C. H. Chen, and M. Guignard-Spielberg
International Journal of Smart Engineering System Design, Vol. 3, pp. 279-287
December 2001

Potential Net Present Value for a Cargo Airline Investment: A Preliminary Analysis
George L. Donohue, Motoko Shimizu, William Laska and Ash Shah
October 2001

An Empirical Evaluation of Several Methods to Select the Best System
Inoue, K., S. E. Chick, and C. H. Chen
ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 381-407
October 2001

Scheduling Semiconductor Wafer Fabrication by Using Ordinal Optimization-Based Simulation
Hsieh, B. W., C. H. Chen, and S. C. Chang
IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 17, No. 5, pp. 599-608
October 2001

Distributed Web-Based Simulation Experiments For Optimization
Yücesan, E., Y. C. Luo, C. H. Chen, and I. Lee
Journal of Simulation Practice and Theory, Vol. 9, pp. 73-90
September 2001

Testimony before the US house of Representatives Committee on Science, Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics
George L. Donohue
April 2001

AIAA Aerospace America OPED
George L. Donohue
March 2001

2000

Large Convergence Properties of Two-Stage Stochastic Programming
Dai, L., C. H. Chen, and J. R. Birge
Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Vol. 106, No. 3, pp. 489-510
September 2000

AIAA Viewpoint Research Investments in Air Transportation
George L. Donohue
August 2000

United States and European Airport Capacity Assessment Using the GMU Macroscopic Capacity Model
George L. Donohue and William D. Laska
June 2000

Simulation Budget Allocation for Further Enhancing the Efficiency of Ordinal Optimization
Chen, C. H., J. Lin, E. Yücesan, and S. E. Chick
Journal of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems: Theory and Applications, Vol. 10, pp. 251-270
July 2000

Computing Efforts Allocation for Ordinal Optimization and Discrete Event Simulation
Chen, H. C., C. H. Chen, and E. Yücesan
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 45, No. 5, pp. 960-964
May 2000

1999

Air Traffic Service Privitization: Will the U.S. Join the Club
George L. Donohue
1999

A Simplified Air Transportation System Capacity Model
George L. Donohue
June 1999