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The two somewhat conflicting requirements of efficiency and fairness make ATFM an unsatisfactorily solved problem, despite its overwhelming importance. In this paper, we present an economics motivated solution that is based on the notion of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-09-27 Vijay V. Vazirani

We present a market-based approach to the Air Traffic Flow Management (ATFM) problem. The goods in our market are delays and buyers are airline companies; the latter pay money to the FAA to buy away the desired amount of delay on a per…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Ruta Mehta , Vijay V. Vazirani

In this paper, we propose a conflict-free multi- agent flight scheduling that ensures robust separation in con- strained airspace for Urban Air Mobility (UAM) operations application. First, we introduce Pairwise Conflict Avoidance (PCA)…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Vahid Hemmati , Yonas Ayalew , Ahmad Mohammadi , Reza Ahmari , Parham Kebria , Abdollah Homaifar , Mehrdad Saif

Ensuring safe separation between aircraft is a critical challenge in air traffic management, particularly in urban air mobility (UAM) environments where high traffic density and low altitudes require precise control. In these environments,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Surya Murthy , Tyler Ingebrand , Sophia Smith , Ufuk Topcu , Peng Wei , Natasha Neogi

Aerial cargo transport is anticipated to play a pivotal role in the distribution of goods within urban environments. The shift is propelled by the surge in e-commerce, the imperative to deliver essential supplies to isolated areas, and the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Josue N. Rivera , Dengfeng Sun

Using constraint-based local search, we effectively model and efficiently solve the problem of balancing the traffic demands on portions of the European airspace while ensuring that their capacity constraints are satisfied. The traffic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-10-08 Farshid Hassani Bijarbooneh , Pierre Flener , Justin Pearson

To mitigate ATFM delay, different approaches have been proposed so far which can be categorized into strategic and tactical domains. The strategical techniques mainly concern airport slot allocation and for the tactical domain, the ATFM…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-03-24 Mehran Makhtoumi

Urban air mobility (UAM), a transformative concept for the transport of passengers and cargo, faces several integration challenges in complex urban environments. Community acceptance of aircraft noise is among the most noticeable of these…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-02 Zhenyu Gao , Yue Yu , Qinshuang Wei , Ufuk Topcu , John-Paul Clarke

Urban air mobility (UAM) has attracted the attention of aircraft manufacturers, air navigation service providers and governments in recent years. Preventing the conflict among urban aircraft is crucial to UAM traffic safety, which is a key…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-28 Wei Dai , Bizhao Pang , Kin Huat Low

Advanced Air Mobility (AAM), encompassing Urban Air Mobility (UAM) and Regional Air Mobility (RAM), offers innovative solutions to mitigate the issues related to ground transportation like traffic congestion, environmental pollution etc.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-12-17 Kamal Acharya , Mehul Lad , Houbing Song , Liang Sun

Urban Air Mobility (UAM) has emerged as a transformative solution to alleviate urban congestion by utilizing low-altitude airspace, thereby reducing pressure on ground transportation networks. To enable truly efficient and seamless…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Aoyu Pang , Maonan Wang , Zifan Sha , Wenwei Yue , Changle Li , Chung Shue Chen , Man-On Pun

Urban Air Mobility (UAM) presents a transformative vision for metropolitan transportation, but its practical implementation is hindered by substantial infrastructure costs and operational complexities. We address these challenges by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Xuan Jiang , Xuanyu Zhou , Yibo Zhao , Shangqing Cao , Dingyi Zhuang , Jinhua Zhao , Haris Koutsopoulos , Shenhao Wang , Mark Hansen , Raja Sengupta

Guaranteeing stringent data freshness for low-altitude unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in shared spectrum forces a critical trade-off between two operational costs: the UAV's own energy consumption and the occupation of terrestrial channel…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Bowen Li , Jiping Luo , Themistoklis Charalambous , Nikolaos Pappas

Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) operations are expected to significantly increase aerial traffic in urban airspace, requiring autonomous traffic management systems to ensure collision-free operations in highly congested environments. In this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-21 Matthew Low , Jasmine Jerry Aloor , Victoria Marie Tuck , Pierluigi Nuzzo , Jason J. Choi

The air transportation market is highly competitive and dynamic. Airlines often form alliances to expand their network reach, improve operational efficiency, and enhance customer experience. However, the impact of these alliances on market…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Khalil Al Handawi , Fabian Bastin

This paper presents a real-time trajectory planning framework for Urban Air Mobility (UAM) that is both safe and scalable. The proposed framework employs a decentralized, free-flight concept of operation in which each aircraft independently…

In this paper, we introduce a unified framework for studying various cloud traffic management problems, ranging from geographical load balancing to backbone traffic engineering. We first abstract these real-world problems as a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-02-04 Chen Feng , Hong Xu , Baochun Li

Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) is an emerging transportation system that will enable the safe and efficient low altitude operations and applications of unmanned aircraft (e.g., passenger transportation and cargo delivery) in the national…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Esrat F. Dulia , Mir S. Sabuj , Syed A. M. Shihab

In the context of `Everything-as-a-Service', the transportation sector has been evolving towards user-centric business models in which customized services and mode-agnostic mobility resources are priced in a unified framework. Yet, in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-30 Haoning Xi , Wei Liu , David Rey , S. Travis Waller , Philip Kilby

Balancing passenger demand and vehicle availability is crucial for ensuring the sustainability and effectiveness of urban transportation systems. To address this challenge, we propose a novel hierarchical strategy for the efficient…

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