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Education: Dissertations and Thesis Reports

 
More than 100 graduate students have participated in NEXTOR research programs since the organization's formation in 1996.  The following are some of the thesis reports and dissertations from NEXTOR graduates:
Date Title Author
Fall 2008 Charter vs. Scheduled Airlines G. Gupta, University of California, Berkeley
Fall 2008 Passenger Demand for Air Transportation in a Hub-and-Spoke Network C-Y. Hsiao, University of California, Berkeley
Fall 2008 Real-time Inter-modal Strategies for Airline Schedule Perturbation Recovery and Airport Congestion Mitigation under Collaborative Decision Making (CDM) Y. Zhang, University of California, Berkeley
July 2008 Minimizing the Pain in Air Transportation: Analysis of Performance and Equity in Ground Delay Programs B. Manley, George Mason University
July 2008 A Statistical Separation Standard and Risk-Throughput Modeling of the Aircraft Landing Process B. Jeddi, George Mason University
March 2008 Decision Support Tool for Predicting Aircraft Arrival Rates from Weather Forecasts D. Smith, George Mason University
December 2007 Method for Deriving Multi-Factor Models for Predicting Airport Delays N. Xu, George Mason University
November 2007 Air Express Network Design with Hub Sorting S. Ngamchai, University of Maryland
October 2007 Aggregate Statistical Models for National Airspace System Performance B. Subramanian, University of Maryland
October 2007 Cross Data-base Analysis to Identify Relationships Between Aircraft Accidents and Incidents Z. Nazeri, George Mason University
July 2007 Methods For Analysis Of Passenger Trip Performance In A Complex Networked Transportation System D. Wang, George Mason University
May 2007 Determining the Number of Slots to Submit to a Market Mechanism at a Single Airport A. Churchill, University of Maryland
Spring 2007 Managing Uncertainty in the Single Airport Ground Holding Problem using Scenario-based and Scenario-free Approaches P-C. Liu, University of California, Berkeley
Fall 2006 Automation Adoption and Adaptation in Air Traffic Control T. Bolic, University of California, Berekeley
November 2006 Air Transportation System Performance: Estimation and Comparative Analysis of Departure Delays Y. Tu, University of Maryland
July 2006 Demand Management at Congested Airports: How Far Are We From Utopia? L. Le, George Mason University
May 2006 Heuristics and Performance Metamodels for the Dynamic Dial-a-Ride Problem Y. Luo, University of Maryland
April 2006 Slot-exchange Mechanisms and Weather-Based Rerouting within an Airspace Planning and Collaborative Decision-Making Model M. McCrea, Virginia Tech
August 2005 Relations among Enroute Traffic, Controller Staffing and System Performance S. Kamble, University of Maryland
May 2005 Order Assignment and Resource Reservation: An Optimization Model and Policy Analysis J. McNeil, University of Maryland
December 2004 Impact Assessment Of Dynamic Slot Exchange in Air Traffic Management R. Sankararaman, University of Maryland
December 2003 Integrated Management of Highway Maintenance and Traffic P. Chen, University of Maryland
April 2003 An Airspace Planning and Collaborative Decision Making Model under Safety, Workload, and Equity Considerations R. Staats, Virginia Tech
August 2002 Fair Allocation Concepts in Air Traffic Management T. Vossen, University of Maryland
August 2002 Implementing and Evaluating Alternative Airspace Rationing Methods J. Burke, University of Maryland
August 2002 Predicting Airspace Congestion using Approximate Queueing Models B. Chandran, University of Maryland
July 2000 Stochastic Models for the Estimation of Airport Arrival Capacity Distributions T. Inniss, University of Maryland
May 2000 Development of Optimization and Simulation Models for the Analysis of Airfield Operations H. Baik, Virginia Tech
March 2000 Tight Discrete Formulations to Enhance Solvability with Applications to Production, Telecommunications, and Air Transportation Problems J. C. Smith, Virginia Tech
September 1998 Optimization Model with Fairness Objective for Air Traffic Management T. Butler, University of Maryland
June 1998 Development of a Computer Model to Study the Occupancy of ARTCC Sectors S. Sale, Virginia Tech
March 1998 Models for the Stochastic Ground-Holding Problem R. Rifkin, MIT
December 1997 Integer Programming Models for Ground-Holding in Air Traffic Flow Management R. Hoffman, University of Maryland