Prof. Amedeo R Odoni

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.