US-Europe Air Transportation Research & Development Symposium

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Welcome and Registration

Welcome by Conference Chairs

Dirk Schaefer, EUROCONTROL and Eric Neiderman, FAA

Welcome Speeches

Martin Kučera, Prague Airport and Tânia Cardoso Simões, EUROCONTROL

Keynote 1

Digitalization and automatization in Prague Airport Operations

Vladimir Kuran & Petr Had, Prague Airport

Coffee

Session

Track 1 - Integrated airport/airside operations I

Chair Joseph Post (USF)
Room A

• Mark Hansen - Robust Management of Airport Security Queues Considering Passenger Non-compliance with Chance-Constrained Optimization
  Shangqing Cao, Aparimit Kasliwal, Huangyi Zheng, Masoud Reihanifar, Mark Hansen (UC Berkeley), and Francesc Robuste (Universitat Politèchnica De Catalunya)

Track 2 - ATM performance measurement and management I

Chair Jose Miguel De Pablo (CRIDA)
Room B

• Xavier Olive - Assessing Airport Surface Traffic Performance from Open Sources of Aviation Data
  Xavier Olive (ONERA), Manuel Waltert (Zurich University of Applied Sciences), and Michael Schultz (Bundeswehr University Munich)

Track 3 - Autonomous, unmanned and remotely piloted aircraft systems and emerging operations I

Chair Nicolas Durand (ENAC)
Room C

• Shuangxia Bai - An Evaluation of UTM ConOps for Drone Deliveries: From Pre-Planned Air Corridors to Dynamic 4D Trajectories
  Lishuai Li, Xinyu He, Shuangxia Bai (City University of Hong Kong), Zewen Wang, Bangyan Zhang and Yinian Mao (Meituan UAV)

Session

Track 1 - Integrated airport/airside operations I

Chair Joseph Post (USF)
Room A

• Phat Thai - Speech-to-Route: Leveraging Large Language Models for Taxi Route Visualization
  Phat Thai, Hasnain Ali, Xuan Tao Hoo, Chea Mean Chan, Duc-Thinh Pham and Sameer Alam (NTU)

Track 2 - ATM performance measurement and management I

Chair Jose Miguel De Pablo (CRIDA)
Room B

• Xuhao Gui - Traffic complexity measurement via collective dynamics analysis of arrival traffic patterns
  Xuhao Gui, Junfeng Zhang (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics), Daniel Delahaye (ENAC), and Xinmin Tang (Civil Aviation University of China)

Track 3 - Autonomous, unmanned and remotely piloted aircraft systems and emerging operations I

Chair Nicolas Durand (ENAC)
Room C

• Max Li - Optimization-Guided Exploration of Advanced Air Mobility Congestion Management Strategies with Stochastic Demands
  Haochen Wu, Max Li (University of Michigan), Lesley Weitz, and Jeffrey Henderson (MITRE)

Session

Track 1 - Integrated airport/airside operations I

Chair Joseph Post (USF)
Room A

• Paolino De Falco - Machine learning predictions of Target Off-Block Time and Turnaround Duration for all European A-CDM Airports
  Paolino De Falco (EUROCONTROL)

Track 2 - ATM performance measurement and management I

Chair Jose Miguel De Pablo (CRIDA)
Room B

• Kam Hung Ng - Unlocking Runway Capacity: Enhancing Efficiency through Dynamic Pairwise Aircraft Wake Separation
  Nana Chu, Chenliang Zhang, Kam Hung Ng (Hong Kong Polytechnic), and Daniel Delahaye (ENAC)

Track 3 - Autonomous, unmanned and remotely piloted aircraft systems and emerging operations I

Chair Nicolas Durand (ENAC)
Room C

• Tim Felix Sievers - A Concept for Procedural Terminal Area Airspace Integration of Large Uncrewed Aircraft Systems at Non-Towered Airports
  Tim Felix Sievers, Niklas Peinecke, Enno Nagel (DLR), Jordan Sakakeeny, Husni Idris, Vishwanath Bulusu (NASA Ames Research Center), and Devin Jack (NASA Langley Research Center)

Lunch

Session

Track 1 - Doctoral paper session 1

Chair David Lovell (UMd)
Room A

• Edgar Bottcher (TU Dresden) - Design of a hybrid-electric powertrain model for trajectory optimization
  

Track 2 - Doctoral paper session 2

Chair Marc Bourgois (EUROCONTROL)
Room B

• Pavithra Sathya Kumar (University of the Bundeswehr) - Multimodal Traffic Coordination for Safety Landings
  

Track 3 - Doctoral paper session 3

Chair Yu Yu Zhang (USF)
Room C

• Hong-ah Chai (Korea Aerospace University) - Learning to Explain Air Traffic Situation
  

Session

Track 1 - Doctoral paper session 1

Chair David Lovell (UMd)
Room A

• Raul Lopez-Martin (IFISC) - Structural predictability of large-scale aircraft interaction networks
  

Track 2 - Doctoral paper session 2

Chair Marc Bourgois (EUROCONTROL)
Room B

• Elif Erkek (TU Dresden) - Spatial Analysis-Driven Facility Location Optimization for Vertiports
  

Track 3 - Doctoral paper session 3

Chair Yu Yu Zhang (USF)
Room C

• Elia Ghisellini (ENAC) - Modified Dijkstra’s Algorithm for Search and Rescue Operations in Dynamic Wildfire Environments
  

Coffee

Session

Track 1 - Integrated airport/airside operations II

Chair Dirk Kugler (DLR)
Room A

• Hartmut Fricke - Chances and Pitfalls of the Point Merge Concept – A design Optimization Framework with a Case Study for Leipzig/Halle Airport on Noise, Capacity and Flight Efficiency
  Hartmut Fricke, Martin Lindner (TU Dresden), Christoph Thiel, and Markus Vogel (GfL)

Track 2 - ATM performance measurement and management II

Chair Jose Miguel De Pablo (CRIDA)
Room B

• Ying Zhou - Exploring Airlines Scheduled Buffer Time Adjustment Strategies: An Analytical Approach
  Ying Zhou, Sameer Alam (NTU), and Mark Hansen (UC Berkeley)

Track 3 - Autonomous, unmanned and remotely piloted aircraft systems and emerging operations II

Chair Nicolas Durand (ENAC)
Room C

• Sybert Stroeve - Including intent in detect-and-avoid systems for remotely piloted aircraft systems
  Sybert Stroeve and Mirco Kroon (NLR)

Session

Track 1 - Integrated airport/airside operations II

Chair Dirk Kugler (DLR)
Room A

• Bosheng Ba - A new method to compute more appropriate off-block times and taxiing paths for airport surface management
  Ruixin Wang, Jean-Baptiste Gotteland (ENAC), Bosheng Ba, Tian Huang, Yifei Zhao (Civil Aviation University of China), and Yunqi Gao (Beihang University)

Track 2 - ATM performance measurement and management II

Chair Jose Miguel De Pablo (CRIDA)
Room B

• Mark Hansen - Identification and Characterization for Disruptions in the U.S. National Airspace System (NAS)
  Jing Xu, Mark Hansen (UC Berkeley), and Megan Ryerson (University of Pennsylvania))

Track 3 - Autonomous, unmanned and remotely piloted aircraft systems and emerging operations II

Chair Nicolas Durand (ENAC)
Room C

• Paul Lee - Development of Cooperative Operating Practices for Upper-Class E Traffic Management (ETM)
  Paul Lee, Conrad Dang-Gabriel, Jeffrey Homola (NASA Ames Research Center), Connie Brasil, Deborah Bakowski, Kevin-Christian Garzon Galindo (San Jose State University), and Mark Evans (ASRC Federal Data Solutions)

Session

Track 2 - ATM performance measurement and management II

Chair Jose Miguel De Pablo (CRIDA)
Room B

• Dan Howell - Impacts of ADS-B In Approach Applications during Revenue Operations
  Dan Howell, Lynn Tran, Jen King (Regulus Group), and Alejandro Rodriguez (FAA)

Track 3 - Autonomous, unmanned and remotely piloted aircraft systems and emerging operations II

Chair Nicolas Durand (ENAC)
Room C

• Yashovardhan S. Chati - Vertiport Placement for Urban Air Mobility to Reduce Time for Multimodal Travel
  Yashovardhan S. Chati, Yamini Sharma, Kirti Nikam, Prasad Devkar and Arunchandar Vasan (Tata Consultancy Services)

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5K fun run/walk

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Coffee

Session

Track 1 - Safety, resilience, and security

Chair Sybert Stroeve (NLR)
Room A

• Jinpeng Zhang - An MAC Probability Assessment Framework for Integrated Operations in Urban Air Mobility Considering Safety Barriers
  Jinpeng Zhang, Yan Xu, Kaiquan Cai (Beihang University), Victor Gordo (Universidad Politècnica de Madrid), and Gokhan Inalhan (Sloane Institute)

Track 2 - Air traffic flow management and optimization I

Chair Daniel Delahaye (ENAC)
Room B

• Liping Huang - Efficient Real-Time Aircraft ETA Prediction via Feature Tokenization Transformer
  Liping Huang, Yicheng Zhang, Yifang Yin, Sheng Zhang and Yi Zhang (A*STAR)

Track 3 - Weather, climate and energy efficiency I

Chair Tom Reynolds (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
Room C

• Katsuhiro Sekine - Assessing Climate Impact of Contrails: Insights from Japan’s High-Density Airspace and Meteorological Conditions
  Katsuhiro Sekine, Tomoki Hasegawa, Eri Itoh (University of Tokyo), and Junzi Sun (TU Delft)

Session

Track 1 - Safety, resilience, and security

Chair Sybert Stroeve (NLR)
Room A

• Nidhal Bouaynaya - Anomaly Detection of Aircraft on Final Approach to an Aerodrome with Temporal Fusion Transformers
  Giuseppina Carannante, Nidhal Bouaynaya (Rowan University), Tom Tessitore, Anis Omezzine, Andrew Bak and Charles Johnson (FAA)

Track 2 - Air traffic flow management and optimization I

Chair Daniel Delahaye (ENAC)
Room B

• Yutong Chen - Tactical Demand and Capacity Balancing with Uncertainty Using Incremental Path-Search based on Spatio-Temporal Graph
  Yutong Chen, Zhi Jun Lim and Sameer Alam (NTU)

Track 3 - Weather, climate and energy efficiency I

Chair Tom Reynolds (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
Room C

• Benjamin Tolley - Recurrent Neural Network Based Quantile Predictions of Airport Capacity
  Benjamin Tolley, Jeremiah Budiman and James Jones (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)

Session

Track 1 - Safety, resilience, and security

Chair Sybert Stroeve (NLR)
Room A

• Milad Memarzadeh - Responsible AI for Air Traffic Management: Application to Runway Configuration Assistance Tool
  Milad Memarzadeh, Krishna Kalyanam (NASA Ames Research Center), Zili Wang (Iowa State University), Farzan Masrour Shalmani (Crown Consulting), and Pouria Razzaghi (Metis Technology Solutions)

Track 2 - Air traffic flow management and optimization I

Chair Daniel Delahaye (ENAC)
Room B

• Andreas Guitart - Flight allocation in flight-centric air traffic control: A MILP model approach
  Andréas Guitart and Daniel Delahaye (ENAC)

Track 3 - Weather, climate and energy efficiency I

Chair Tom Reynolds (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
Room C

• James Jones - Recommending Traffic Management Initiatives in Non-Convective Weather
  James Jones, Jeremiah Budiman and Benjamin Tolley (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)

Light Lunch

Session

Track - Tutorial session 1

Chair Jan Groot (TU Delft)
Room B

• - Reinforcement Learning for Air Traffic Control Applications with BlueSky-Gym
  

Track - Tutorial session 2

Chair Manuel Soler & Abolfazi Simorgh (UC3M)
Room C

• - Contrail-Modeling and Trajectory-Optimization for Climate-Smart Flight Operations using Python-based Open-Source Libraries
  

Refreshments

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Bus return for those not on airport visit

Visit Prague Airport

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Coffee

Panel 1

Hey Siri, Which way should I vector this aircraft?

Tom Reynolds (MIT Lincoln Laboratory), Moderator

Coffee

Session

Track 1 - Automation, human factors, and decision support systems I

Chair Jacco Hoekstra (TU Delft)
Room A

• Manuel Arias Chao - Ensuring UAS Airworthiness: Deep Learning-Based Acoustic Health Monitoring of Motor Health
  Prissha Chawla (University of Cincinnati), Chetan Kulkarni (KBR), and Manuel Arias Chao (Zurich University of Applied Sciences)

Track 2 - Air traffic flow management and optimization II

Chair Michael Schultz (University of the Bundeswehr)
Room B

• William Jeremy Coupe - Shadow Evaluation of Real-Time Machine Learning Services in the Houston Airspace
  William Jeremy Coupe (NASA), Alexandre Amblard, Sarah Youlton (Crown Consulting), and Matthew Kistler (Mosaic ATM)

Track 3 - Weather, climate and energy efficiency II

Chair Tom Reynolds (MIT Lincoln Lab)
Room C

• Wei Zhou - Probabilistic Risk-Aware Flight Trajectory Planning under Convective Weather
  Wei Zhou, Yutong Chen, Sameer Alam (NTU), and Xavier Prats (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)

Session

Track 1 - Automation, human factors, and decision support systems I

Chair Jacco Hoekstra (TU Delft)
Room A

• Katherine Fennedy - Do ATCOs Need Explanations, and Why? Towards ATCO-Centered Explainable AI for Conflict Resolution Advisories
  Katherine Fennedy, Thaivalappil Noushad Mohammed Nadirsha, Sameer Alam, Hua Li (NTU), Brian Hilburn (Center for Human Performance Research), and Khanh-Duy Le (VNUHCM University of Science)

Track 2 - Air traffic flow management and optimization II

Chair Michael Schultz (University of the Bundeswehr)
Room B

• Nianxi Xie - Learning Network Flow Control Strategies from Miles-In-Trail Data
  Nianxi Xie, Yanjun Wang (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics), Ying Zhou, Sameer Alam, Vu Duong (NTU), and Mark Hansen (UC Berkeley)

Track 3 - Weather, climate and energy efficiency II

Chair Tom Reynolds (MIT Lincoln Lab)
Room C

• Tom Reynolds - Weather Considerations for Airport Capacity Decision Support Development
  Tom Reynolds, Mike Matthews, David Clark (MIT Lincoln Laboratory), Sophie Splawinski, Kurtis Arnold and Matthew Williams (NAV CANADA)

Session

Track 1 - Automation, human factors, and decision support systems I

Chair Jacco Hoekstra (TU Delft)
Room A

• Zhuoxuan Cao - A Data-Driven Framework for Next-Day Traffic Forecasting at Small Airports with Multi-Scale Machine Learning
  Zhuoxuan Cao, David Lovell, Seth Young and Aaron Webb (University of Maryland)

Track 2 - Air traffic flow management and optimization II

Chair Michael Schultz (University of the Bundeswehr)
Room B

• Danae Mitkas - A machine learning model to aid in predicting flight trajectory sequencing delays near the arrival airport
  Danae Mitkas, Brian Kravitz and Martin Durbin (FAA)

Track 3 - Weather, climate and energy efficiency II

Chair Tom Reynolds (MIT Lincoln Lab)
Room C

• Junzi Sun - Contrail, or not contrail, that is the question: the "feasibility" of climate-optimal routing
  Junzi Sun (TU Delft) and Xavier Olive (ONERA)

Lunch

Session

Track - Tutorial session 3

Chair Jakub Steiner & Jakub Trýb (Czech Technical University)
Room A

• - Navigating the Skies through Hostile Environments: GNSS Interference Impact on Aviation
  

Track - Tutorial session 4

Chair Thinh Pham and Yash Guleria (NTU)
Room B

• - Customizing LLMs for ATM: Challenges and Opportunities
  

Track - Tutorial session 5

Chair Junzi Sun (TU Delft)
Room C

• - Can We Reproduce the "contrail!contrail" Paper? A Step-by-Step Trajectory Optimization Tutorial with Open AP, Traffic, and FastMeteo
  

Coffee

Session

Track 2 - Doctoral paper session 4

Chair Dirk Schaefer (EUROCONTROL)
Room B

• Nils Ahrenhold (DLR) - Optimisation of the North Atlantic Air Traffic Managementto mitigate environmental impact
  

Track 3 - Doctoral paper session 5

Chair James Jones (MIT Lincoln Lab)
Room C

• Di Lv (Tsinghua University) - Spatiotemporal Trajectory Planning for Multi-Aircraft Terminal Operations in UAM Considering Wake Effects and Dynamics
  

Session

Track 2 - Doctoral paper session 4

Chair Dirk Schaefer (EUROCONTROL)
Room B

• Md Ashraful Islam (TU Dresden) - Dynamic modeling of UAV trajectory prediction in an urban environment
  

Track 3 - Doctoral paper session 5

Chair James Jones (MIT Lincoln Lab)
Room C

• Sinan Abdulhak (UMich) - Generative Stress-Testing for Air Traffic Management Resilience
  

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Gala Dinner

Boat Anna Carolina, Pier 6 (under the Fairmont Hotel)

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Coffee

Session

Track 1 - Automation, human factors, and decision support systems II

Chair Cheryl Quinn (NASA)
Room A

• Yash Guleria - Leveraging Retrieval-Augmented In-context Learning for Complex Air Traffic Scenario Generation
  Yash Guleria, Duc-Thinh Pham, Ashton Low Kin Yun, Nadirshah Thaivalappil N.M., Katherine Fennedy, Chunyao Ma and Sameer Alam (NTU)

Track 2 - Air traffic flow management and optimization III

Chair Hartmut Fricke (TU Dresden)
Room B

• Daniel Lubig - From En-Route to Touchdown: Uncertainty Analysis of Inbound Traffic Flows to Singapore Changi Airport
  Daniel Lubig, Judith Rosenow, Norman Peter and Hartmut Fricke (TU Dresden)

Track 3 - Trajectory planning, prediction, and management

Chair Max Li (U Mich)
Room C

• Yoshinori Matsuno - Stochastic Cruise Speed Control for Time-Based Metering Under Uncertainty
  Yoshinori Matsuno, Haruki Matsuda (JAXA), and Noboru Takeichi (Tokyo Metropolitan University)

Session

Track 1 - Automation, human factors, and decision support systems II

Chair Cheryl Quinn (NASA)
Room A

• Lim Zhi Jun - Automating Terminal Airspace Vectoring: A Machine-Assisted Approach for Sequencing, Spacing and Merging of Arrival Flights
  Imen Dhief, Zhi Jun Lim, Hao Jiang, Duc-Thinh Pham and Sameer Alam (NTU)

Track 2 - Air traffic flow management and optimization III

Chair Hartmut Fricke (TU Dresden)
Room B

• Go Nam Lui - A robust optimization approach for dynamic airspace configuration
  Go Nam Lui, Guglielmo Lulli (Lancaster University), Luigi De Giovanni, Martina Galeazzo (Università di Padova), Iciar Garcia-Ovies Carro and Rebeca Llorente Martinez (CRIDA)

Track 3 - Trajectory planning, prediction, and management

Chair Max Li (U Mich)
Room C

• Marta Ribeiro - Forecasting of Airline En Route Delay for Individual Flights with Supervised Learning
  Casper Dolman, Marta Ribeiro, Junzi Sun, Phillipe Lothaller (TU Delft), Jasper De Wilde, Alexander Piva and Frans Vossen (KLM)

Session

Track 1 - Automation, human factors, and decision support systems II

Chair Cheryl Quinn (NASA)
Room A

• Anahita Jain - Adaptive Traffic-Following Scheme for Orderly Distributed Control of Multi-Vehicle Systems
  Anahita Jain, John-Paul Clarke (UT Austin), Husni Idris (NASA Ames Research Center), and Daniel Delahaye (ENAC)

Track 2 - Air traffic flow management and optimization III

Chair Hartmut Fricke (TU Dresden)
Room B

• Constanca Veiga - Predicting Reactionary Delays in a Hub-Spoke Network using Graph Attention Neural Networks
  Constanca Veiga, Marta Ribeiro (TU Delft), and Marie Carre (Swiss International Air Lines)

Track 3 - Trajectory planning, prediction, and management

Chair Max Li (U Mich)
Room C

• Hao Jiang - Optimized Sequencing and Conflict-Free Path Planning for Arrival Flights during Runway Direction Changes
  Hao Jiang, Zhi Jun Lim, Debosmit Mookherjee, Imen Dhief, Yutong Chen, Duc-Thinh Pham and Sameer Alam (NTU)

Coffee

Panel 2

What really sucks about operations?

Joseph Post (USF), Moderator

Lunch

Closing Session

Best Paper Awards & Closing Announcement ATRDS 2026

Eric Neiderman, FAA and Dirk Schaefer, EUROCONTROL

Committee Meeting