345 research outputs found
Improvement of Terminal Area Capacity in the New York Airspace
The New York airspace is the most congested in the U.S. air transportation network.
Increasing capacity in this area is critical to ensure the balanced growth of traffic across the U.S. This study compares the total measured runway capacity at the New York airports with the achieved throughput of the New York airspace. The comparison is performed for six airspace configurations representing operations under different wind conditions, visibility and relative arrival and departure demand. The comparison shows that in all cases the capacity of the system of airports is lower than the total capacity of the airports considered individually by approximately 20%. This finding suggests that air traffic throughput in the New York area is constrained by shared airspace resources. If these constraints could be removed, these funding suggest that capacity could be increased approximately 20% without any airport infrastructure or procedure changes.
An examination of procedures close to the airports is performed to identify fixed constraints. The impact of these constraints is not captured by the empirical analysis because these constraints are always present. This analysis identifies cases where new navigation technologies could be used to reduce the interactions between airports. The greatest potential for improvement is found to be in the lower performing configurations. Therefore procedural changes close to the airports may provide more benefit in reducing the variability of capacity between different configurations, rather than providing large increases in maximum capacity.This research was supported by both NASA and the FAA through agreement
number NNA06CN24A and contract DTFA01-C-00030
Where Do We Go from Here? The Ebbs and Flows of Professional Adult Education
This paper examines the movement of adult education into the university as an area of study. It also looks at the development of the professoriate and the continual formation and dissolution of programs
Consolidating the Profession? The Professoriate in the 1950s and 1960s
This paper explores the development and growth of an adult education professoriate and adult education programs in higher education from 1945 until 1964. It examines specifically the factors that caused the growth of programs; decisions about curriculum; and the principal sources of funding. Additionally it explores the varying discussions and debates about the nature of the field
Developing Knowledge and Theory in the Field of Adult Education: Research Conferences in the 1960’s
This historical study examines the role of research and the development of adult education research conferences, including the eventual founding and establishment of the Adult Education Research Conference (AERC)
Serving the World or Building a Profession: The Confounding Dilemmas of Mid-Twentieth Century Academic Adult Education
This paper discusses the development and growth of an adult education professoriate and especially the growth and expansion of the CPAE in the 1950s and 1960s
Narrowing Interests: North American Adult Educators’ Discussions on Internationalization in the 1960’s
In examining the history of the field of Adult Education, interesting questions about the development of the knowledge base emerges. This research examines the countervailing strands and how the resulting focus narrowed the field to North America interests in the 1960’s
A Field in Search of Theory and Respect: AE in the Mid-20th Century
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the development of an adult education professoriate and adult education programs in higher education in the 1950s and 1960s, as well as to examine the development of AERC as a means to advance and enhance theoretical knowledge related to the field
Emergence of Regional Jets and The Implications on Air Traffic Management
Airlines are increasingly using regional jets
to better match aircraft size to high value, but
limited demand markets. This has been
especially important following increased
financial pressure on the industry after
September 11th 2001. The increase in regional
jets represents a significant change from
traditional air traffic patterns. To investigate the
possible impacts of this change, this study
analyzed the emerging flight patterns and
performance of regional jets compared to
traditional jets and turboprops. In addition, a
comparison between regional jet flight patterns
in the United States and Europe was conducted.
Regional jet operations generally cluster in
the regions with high traditional jet operation
density, implying a high level of interaction
between the two aircraft types. The regional jets
were observed to fly shorter routes than
traditional jets, with few transcontinental flights.
However, the gap between regional and narrow
body traditional jet stage lengths appears to be
closing. In addition, regional jets were observed
to exhibit lower climb rates than traditional jets,
which may impact air traffic control handling
and sector design. It was also observed that
regional jets cruise at lower altitudes than
traditional jets possibly due to their shorter flight
routes. Finally, it was observed that regional jets
cruise at a lower Mach number than traditional
jets, except on specific high density routes where
the regional jets are either slowing down the
traditional jet traffic or flying above their
optimum cruise speed. Since the composition
and utilization of the national fleet is changing,
this will pose potential problems for air traffic
management. In particular, it may cause serious
congestion issues when demand increases during
an economic recovery
The coupled dynamics of fluids and spacecraft in low gravity and low gravity fluid measurement
The very large mass fraction of liquids stored on broad current and future generation spacecraft has made critical the technologies of describing the fluid-spacecraft dynamics and measuring or gauging the fluid. Combined efforts in these areas are described, and preliminary results are presented. The coupled dynamics of fluids and spacecraft in low gravity study is characterizing the parametric behavior of fluid-spacecraft systems in which interaction between the fluid and spacecraft dynamics is encountered. Particular emphasis is given to the importance of nonlinear fluid free surface phenomena to the coupled dynamics. An experimental apparatus has been developed for demonstrating a coupled fluid-spacecraft system. In these experiments, slosh force signals are fed back to a model tank actuator through a tunable analog second order integration circuit. In this manner, the tank motion is coupled to the resulting slosh force. Results are being obtained in 1-g and in low-g (on the NASA KC-135) using dynamic systems nondimensionally identical except for the Bond numbers
Heat Transfer Measurements on Surfaces with Natural Ice Castings and Modeled Roughness
An experimental method is described to measure and compare the convective heat transfer coefficient of natural and simulated ice accretion roughness and to provide a rational means for determining accretion-related enhanced heat transfer coefficients. The natural ice accretion roughness was a sample casting made from accretions at the NASA Lewis Icing Research Tunnel (IRT). One of these castings was modeled using a Spectral Estimation Technique (SET) to produce three roughness elements patterns that simulate the actual accretion. All four samples were tested in a flat-plate boundary layer at angle of attack in a "dry" wind tunnel test. The convective heat transfer coefficient was measured using infrared thermography. It is shown that, dispite some problems in the current data set, the method does show considerable promise in determining roughness-induced heat transfer coefficients, and that, in addition to the roughness height and spacing in the flow direction, the concentration and spacing of elements in the spanwise direction are important parameters
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