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Prof. Amedeo R Odoni
Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Emeritus
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Emeritus
Primary DLC
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
MIT Room:
33-324
(617) 253-7439
arodoni@mit.edu
Areas of Interest and Expertise
Airport Planning and Design
Air Traffic Control
Applied Probability Theory
Operations Research
Transportation Systems Analysis
Air Transportation and Demand/Capacity
Research Summary
Professor Odoni's research interests are in applied probability theory, stochastic processes and decision-making under uncertainty, principally in air transportation system infrastructure. He looks at models and tools for exploring demand/capacity and demand/delay relationships in airports and air traffic control (ATC) and effective uses of available airport and ATC resources on a daily basis. He and his research group develop optimization algorithms for application in real-time flow management of air traffic; dynamic statistical models for predicting the occurrence of various events in real-time, such as the time of take-off from congested airports; a model to compute delays on a network of airports; computer-aided design of passenger terminals; and dynamic queueing models.
He also pursues research in risk assessment for railroads involving the development of a comprehensive safety performance index for railroad operations, as well as the exploratory analysis of data on accidents at railroad grade crossings and development of statistical models for inter-arrival times of very rare accidents. He also works in probabilistic extensions and variations of classical combinatorial optimization models such as the traveling salesman problem.
Recent Work
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