Call for Papers: Special Journal Issue “Advances in Control Engineering”

Machines — Open Access Journal Machines (ISSN 2075-1702), an international, open access journal on machinery and engineering. Machines is published by MDPI online quarterly. Manuscripts can be submitted to machines@mdpi.com now. Open Access – free for readers, free publication for well-prepared manuscripts submitted in 2013. Rapid publication: accepted papers are immediately published online. Special Issue […]

The humble ‘virtual chimney’ fences that could reduce the impact of airport pollution

EPSRC Press Release Issue Date: Thursday 31st January, 2013 The humble ‘virtual chimney’ fences that could reduce the impact of airport pollution Simple ‘blast’ fences called baffles could deliver improvements in air quality for people living near airports, new research has found. Placed behind a runway, the baffles could serve as a ‘virtual chimney’, funnelling […]

The trade-off between taxi time and fuel consumption in airport ground movement

Springer-Verlag Journal of Public Transport ISSN: 1866-749X (Print)1613-7159 (Online) DOI: 10.1007/s12469-013-0060-1 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12469-013-0060-1# Stefan Ravizza, Jun Chen, Jason A. D. Atkin, Edmund K. Burke, Paul Stewart Abstract Environmental issues play an important role across many sectors. This is particularly the case in the air transportation industry. One area which has remained relatively unexplored in this context […]