One of the main principles of the current airport slot allocation mechanism in Europe is based on the existence of historical (also called grandfather) rights granted to airlines for using such slots. Through an experimental analysis, we quantitatively show that the system disutility (i.e. the...

In our research we propose a market formalization of secondary trading of airport slots. This proposed market is managed through an individual rational and budget balanced combinatorial slot exchange. The suggested market mechanism allows consideration of en-route sector capacities during the...

The main operational concept of Single European Sky ATM Research Programme is the notion of business trajectory. One possible implementation is based on the notion of a contract of objectives; an agreement among the main air traffic management actors on spatial and temporal intervals called...