Improving attractiveness of working shifts for train dispatchers

T Lidén, C Schmidt, R Zahir - Transportmetrica B: Transport …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
We consider the problem of scheduling shifts for train dispatchers: given legal and
operational constraints, the dispatching work in geographical areas should be assigned to …

[HTML][HTML] Integrating weather impact in air traffic controller shift scheduling in remote and conventional towers

E Hernández-Romero, B Josefsson, A Lemetti… - EURO Journal on …, 2022 - Elsevier
Weather affects the work of air traffic controllers, however, for staff scheduling in Remote
Tower Centers (RTCs) it has not been taken into account. We study the impact of various …

Air traffic controller scheduling

J Guo, JF Bard - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the air traffic controller scheduling problem in which each employee
must be assigned up to 10 shifts over a two-week planning horizon. Additional assignments …

Identification of complexity factors for remote towers

B Josefsson, J Jakobi, A Papenfuss, T Polishchuk… - 2018 - elib.dlr.de
An implementation of the Remote Tower concept comes with the challenge of optimizing
staff resources subject to safety requirements. To distinguish safe from unsafe assignments …

Step toward remote tower center deployment: optimizing staff schedules

B Josefsson, T Polishchuk, V Polishchuk… - Journal of Air …, 2019 - arc.aiaa.org
Remote tower service is one of the technological and operational solutions delivered for
deployment by the Single European Sky Air Traffic Management Research Program. This …

[PDF][PDF] Integrating weather impact in RTC staff scheduling

B Josefsson, A Lemetti… - 10th SESAR …, 2020 - innaxis-comm.s3.eu-central-1 …
Weather affects the work of air traffic controllers, however, for staff scheduling in Remote
Tower Centers (RTCs) it has not been taken into account. In this paper, we study the impact …

[PDF][PDF] Stakeholder cooperation for improved predictability and lower cost remote services

J Dahlberg, T Polishchuk, V Polishchuk, C Schmidt - SID, November, 2017 - sesarju.eu
We consider the problem of adjusting flight schedules (arrival/departure slots) in order to
optimize staffing in a Remote Tower Center. We explore tradeoffs between the number of …

Remote air traffic control towers: An application in Portugal

M Martins, J Silva, C Alves - Journal of Airline and Airport Management, 2024 - jairm.org
Purpose: Remote control towers are the latest evolution in air traffic control at the airport
level. These towers replace traditional air traffic control towers, moving the airport's air traffic …

Identifying interesting moments in controllers work video via dimensionality reduction

K Krus, T Polishchuk… - … international conference on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We explore use of machine learning in automating the discovery of meaningful time intervals
in video data. We combine Convolutional Neural Networks and Principal Component …

[PDF][PDF] Shift Scheduling for Train Dispatchers

T Lidén, C Schmidt, R Zahir - 2023 - itn.liu.se
Thanks to their high speed, large loading capacity, high degree of safety and reduced
environmental impact, trains are considered as one of the best choices among the available …