When the European Commission and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) launched the Atlantic Interoperability Initiative to Reduce Emissions (AIRE) in 2007, few would have expected that results could be delivered so quickly. In 2009, AIRE executed more than 1,000 commercial flight trials in...

In July 2010, 18 projects involving 40 airlines, airports, ANSPs and industry partners were selected for the 2010/2011 cycle of the AIRE programme, in which surface, terminal, oceanic and gate-to-gate operations were tackled. In comparison to the first round of AIRE projects in 2008/2009, this...

The aim of this study is to discuss the differences between geographical, road, time and cost distances by the help of the Hungarian railway network and road network data. The first section deals with the general characteristics of distances and spaces and the validity of metrical axioms in time...

Using annual data on individual US airlines over the 1995-2015 period, this paper presents regression results relating an airline's total fuel usage to seven variables: the available ton miles of capacity (passengers plus freight and mail) provided by the airline; the average seat capacity of its...