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Designing tomorrow's air traffic control systems
Playback of surface trajectories at Boston airport during the Pushback Rate Control demonstration. The green icons depict departures, and the red ones denote arrivals. The movie shows how the long departure queue at the beginning is decreased as a result of the control
strategy. Visualization using Google Earth.
Credit: Hamsa Balakrishnan, MIT. Visualization using Google Earth.
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The MIT Team, led by Prof. Balakrishnan, that demonstrated the Pushback Rate
Control strategy at Boston Logan International Airport. From left to right: Tom Reynolds, Ioannis
Simaiakis, John Hansman, Hamsa Balakrishnan, Harshad Khadilkar and Diana Pfeil.
Credit: William Litant, MIT
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Characteristic delay states of the National Airspace System, identified through clustering. These delay states have been shown to help predict flight delays in the air traffic network.
Credit: Hamsa Balakrishnan, MIT
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