Martin Lindner
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Research Associate
NameDr.-Ing. Martin Lindner
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Chair of Air Transport Technology and Logistics
Visiting address:
Gerhart-Potthoff-Bau (POT), Room 167 Hettnerstraße 1-3
01069 Dresden
Martin Lindner is a research associate at the Chair of Air Transport Technology and Logistics at Technische Universität Dresden since 2014. He achieved his diploma degree in Transport Engineering at the same academic institution and aspires a Ph.D. thesis dealing with optimum aircraft assignment and scheduling based on individual aircraft performance. In his internships at major German airlines and air traffic control as well as the MEFUL project, he specialized in flight and fuel efficiency, ecological sustainability in aviation, and optimized fleet planning. He currently works in the ProfiFuel project bringing together optimized trajectories and live aircraft performance data into the cockpit.
PhD
TAILSIGN-OPTIMZED FLIGHT SCHEDULING AND ROTATION PLANNING
Fleet planning is one of the most important planning steps for an airline and implies high costs for purchase and maintenance of the aircrafts. Aircrafts are subject to steady deterioration effects in flight operations. This concerns notably engines and airframes efficiency, but also aircrafts operating empty mass increases over time. Consequently, the average fuel consumption is higher for the same performed flight with a deteriorated aircraft.
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Performance deviation of an aircraft.
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Flight scheduling and aircraft rotation planning example.
These effects are already taken into account in operational flight planning (e.g. fuel calculations for each individual flight) but long-term efficiency loss is only rarely respected in aircraft rotation planning. In most cases, aircrafts of one fleet series are only treated as identical and are scheduled based on maintenance events and other restrictions. Considering performance degradation and the resulting fuel and operating cost deviations in the tail assignment process, each aircraft will be allocated to flights such that a cost minimum solution is found. The thesis investigates the upcoming fuel and cost saving potential by considering different aircraft performance characteristics and efficiencies in flight planning. For this purpose, additional fuel consumption caused by several deterioration effects is calculated. Consequently, using an integrated long and short term flight scheduling and aircraft assignment model, cost and fuel minimum rotation solutions can be found.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
RescueFLY - Drone-assisted rescue of individuals at risk of drowning in inland waters
- MEFUL - Minimizing flight emissions while sustaining guaranteed operational safety as a contribution to an environmentally friendly air transport system
- ProfiFuel - Improved planning and realization of flight profiles with the lowest ecological footprint and minimum fuel consumption
- ReMAP - Risk analysis and conflict resolution of multi-criteria-efficient approach and departure procedures
LECTURES
PUBLICATIONS
2024
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Trajectory and Airspace Optimization Depending on Controller Task Load , Jul 2024, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Research in Air Transportation (ICRAT)Research output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Conference contribution
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The Optimal Size of a Heterogeneous Air Taxi Fleet in Advanced Air Mobility: A Traffic Demand and Flight Scheduling Approach , 11 Feb 2024, In: Future Transportation. 4, 1, p. 174-214, 41 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
2023
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Optimierung des Flugzeugeinsatzes nach Brennstoffeffizienz , 1 Aug 2023Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Book/Report/Anthology > Monograph
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Multiple Aircraft in a Multi-Criteria Trajectory Optimization , 5 Jun 2023, Fifteenth USA/Europe Air Traffic Management Research and Development Seminar (ATM 2023). Savannah, GAResearch output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Conference contribution
2022
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Locating Air Taxi Infrastructure in regional Areas - The Saxony Use Case , 1 Sep 2022, Deutscher Luft- und Raumfahrtkongress (DLRK) 2022. 1 p.Research output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Conference contribution
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Performance Degradation based Aircraft Tail Assignment and Routing in Daily Airline Operations , 1 Sep 2022, Deutscher Luft- und Raumfahrtkongress DLRK 2022. 1 p.Research output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Conference contribution
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Traffic Flow Funnels Based on Aircraft Performance for Optimized Departure Procedures , 22 Aug 2022, In: Future Transportation. 2(2022), 3, p. 711-733, 23 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
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Optimization of Departure Routes Beyond Aircraft Noise Abatement , 1 Jun 2022, International Conference on Research in Air Transportation (ICRAT 2022). 8 p.Research output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Conference contribution
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Flugverlaufsdaten als Grundlage für Fluglärmberechnungen , 2022Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Book/Report/Anthology > Monograph
2021
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Integration of turnaround and aircraft recovery to mitigate delay propagation in airline networks , 16 Oct 2021, In: Computers & operations research. 138 (2022), 21 p., 105602Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article