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I am not an academic by profession, but when possible I share what I can from my professional activities or my personal passions.

Studying structural change in the European Aviation Network

Research
Drastic loss of flight connections due to the COVID-19 pandemic has called for new approaches to accurately study structural change in the European Aviation Network. This…
Nov 30, 2024
Juul Vossen, Enrico Spinielli, Rainer Koelle

 

Towards characterising inefficiencies and constraints in airport arrival synchronisation for higher levels of operational efficiency

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The ongoing debate about the climate impact of air transportation requires a higher level of operational efficiency as a now-term measure. Efficiency gains from the…
Oct 1, 2023
Rainer Koelle, Enrico Spinielli, Quinten Goens, Fabio Barbosa, Melo Indicadores

Environmental inefficiencies for arrival flights at European airports

Research
In this paper, we analyze two months of trajectory data for aircraft landing in five major European airports. Based on open ADS-B data from the OpenSky Network and open…
Jun 23, 2023
Xavier Olive,Junzi Sun,Luis Basora, Enrico Spinielli

 

Studying the impact of COVID-19 on the European Air Transportation Network

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The European Air Transportation Network was significantly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in an unprecedented loss of flight connections. Utilizing a…
Jun 15, 2023
Juul Vossen; Enrico Spinielli; Quinten Goens; Rainer Koelle

Reference Trajectories: The Dataset Enabling Gate-to-Gate Flight Analysis

Without a doubt, a publicly verifiable data is required to ensure a strong, transparent and independent air traffic management performance review system. Community sourced…
Nov 18, 2021
John Fitzgerald, Enrico Spinielli, Allan Tart, Rainer Koelle

Building Back Better – Democratization of Performance Monitoring with Open Data

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The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the use, sharing, and distribution of data on a global basis. Higher levels of transparency were achieved with continual updates of…
Oct 7, 2021
Rainer Koelle, Sam Peeters, Enrico Spinielli

Air Traffic and Contrail Changes Over Europe During Covid 19 a Model Study

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The strong reduction of air traffic during the COVID-19 pandemic provides a unique test case for the relationship between air traffic density, contrails, and their radiative…
May 18, 2021
Ulrich Schumann, Ian Poll, Roger Teoh, Rainer Koelle, Enrico Spinielli, Jarlath Molloy, George S. Koudis, Robert Baumann, Luca Bugliaro, Marc Stettler, Christiane Voigt

Investigating ADS-B MOPS Compliance using Open Data

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ADS-B
The introduction of Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) in Aviation as mandated in the US and in Europe rests on the (at least theoretical) benefits of the…
Dec 23, 2019
Enrico Spinielli

SESAR Innovation Days 2019

Towards Reproducibility in ANS Performance

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Dec 2, 2019
Enrico Spinielli, Rainer Koelle

Open Flight Trajectories for Reproducible ANS Performance Review

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ADS-B
Air transportation is undergoing a fundamental transformation. On the political, strategic, and operational level work is directed to meet the future growth of air traffic.…
Dec 7, 2018
Enrico Spinielli, Rainer Koelle, Ken Barker, Nicholas Korbey

 

Correlation techniques for digital time-of-flight measurement by airborne ultrasonic rangefinders

Ultrasonic pulse-echo ranging systems based on threshold detection methods are popular devices in the robotic field, as a means for determining the proximity of objects in a…
Sep 16, 1994
Angelo M. Sabatini, Enrico Spinielli
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