Status Report

NASA Solicitation: Comprehensive Modeling of Air Carrier Behavior

By SpaceRef Editor
April 2, 2012
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Award – Mar 26, 2012

General Information

NAIS Posted Date: Mar 26, 2012
FedBizOpps Posted Date: Mar 26, 2012
Noncompetitive Action: No
Recovery and Reinvestment Act Action: No
Contract Award Date: Mar 22, 2012
Contract Award Number: NNL12AA08C_SAIE1
Solicitation Number: NNH10ZEA001N-SAIE1
Contract Award Amount: 522532
Contractor: Logistics Management Institute 2000 McLean, VA 22102-7854
Contractor DUNS Number: 053385738
Classification Code: A — Research and Development
NAICS Code: 541712 – Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)

Contracting Office Address

NASA/Langley Research Center, Mail Stop 12, Industry Assistance Office, Hampton, VA 23681-0001

Description

NASA Airspace System Program (ASP) research is directly addressing the fundamental research needs of the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) in partnership with the member agencies of the Joint Planning and Development Office (JPDO). NextGen represents a substantial and long-term change in the management and operation of the United States National Air Transportation System (NAS). The NAS includes all airports and airspace under the authority of the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA).

ASP supports this effort through the NextGen Concepts and Technology Development (CTD) Project and the NextGen Systems Analysis, Integration and Evaluation (SAIE) Project. The tasks defined for this effort support the Systems and Portfolio Analysis (SPA) element within SAIE. SPA conducts system studies on integrated ASP concepts to identify the system benefits or impacts. The behavior of air carriers in the NAS needs to be understood to allow accurate modeling. With this understanding of air carrier behavior, incentives need to be designed to balance the individual objectives of the participants and the overall best operation of the NAS. The understanding of air carrier behavior needs to be formalized in models and integrated in overall system analysis and design methods.

The scope of this effort is to enable quantified assessments of NextGen concepts and technologies, taking into account air carrier behavior, across all areas of interest including but not limited to safety, risk, environmental impacts and economics. Specifically, modeling of the behavior of air carriers is required to understand the decision-making logic of air carriers, and the consequences of their decisions to the NAS. This understanding of consequences allows the development of appropriate incentives to achieve desired policy outcomes balanced with the individual objectives of the air carriers. The work is fundamental research into deriving the functional relationship between the controllable variables of the NAS and the comprehensive set of utilities (objectives and constraints) in the NAS, including the utilities of the participants, such as passenger and cargo carriers, pilots, air traffic controllers, the FAA, and the overall NAS utilities. The research must take into account conjectured behavior utilities of autonomous vehicles including Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs).

Point of Contact

Name: Tameka Woodley
Title: Contract Specialist
Phone: 757-764-7352
Fax: 757-764-8863
Email: Tameka.Woodley@nasa.gov

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