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Designing tomorrow's air traffic control systems

animated gif showing visualization of pushbacks at logan airport

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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team of 6 MIT scientists standing at the airport

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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maps of united states showing flight delays by routes

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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