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Ever been stuck at DTW wondering why your flight is delayed? Booking a trip and curious how fares are set or why airlines choose certain city pairs? Waiting on a package and wondering when drone deliveries will become a reality?
If so, this course takes a closer look at how it all works.
Course description
The air transportation system is a canonical example of a capacity-constrained, societal-scale infrastructure; it couples a cyber-physical network with a socio-technical one, with an overarching goal of safe and efficient movement of people and goods through the skies. In this course, students will be given a technical introduction to and overview of the critical components comprising the air transportation system. The course is organized into four modules:
Airlines: airline business models, scheduling, fleet and crew assignment, revenue management, and operations
Airports: airport capacity and planning, runway and taxiway design, and demand management
Airspace system: air traffic control, flow management, and initiatives such as FAA NextGen and SESAR
Other and emerging users: air cargo, drones/UAS, Advanced Air Mobility (AAM), and UAS traffic management (UTM)
Audience and Prereq
This course may be of interest to students in Aero, IOE, CEE, ME, as well as city/urban planning (Taubman) and business (Ross). It is particularly relevant for those interested in air transportation systems and in applying methods from operations research, network science, statistics, and economics.Â
A background in optimization (e.g., IOE 310, IOE 410), linear algebra (e.g., MATH 217), and basic programming (e.g., Python, MATLAB, or R) is helpful.
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