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Date of Patent:
Jul. 26, 2022

Filed:

Nov. 18, 2019
Applicant:

The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);

Inventors:

Jakub Dziecielski, Gdansk, PL;

Piotr Mazur, Gdansk, PL;

Jonasz Rudnik, Gdansk, PL;

Michal Ruminski, Gdansk, PL;

Aleksander Rydzewski, Gdansk, PL;

Assignee:

The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08G 5/00 (2006.01); G06F 16/29 (2019.01); G08G 5/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G08G 5/0043 (2013.01); G06F 16/29 (2019.01); G08G 5/0026 (2013.01); G08G 5/065 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method to reduce aircraft fuel consumption includes determining whether a particular aircraft belongs to a runway queue associated with one or more aircraft waiting to take-off from a runway of an airport based on (i) real-time aircraft geographic location information associated with the particular aircraft and (ii) a graph associated with features of the airport. An amount of time the particular aircraft spends in the runway queue before taking off from the runway can be determined. A runway queue take-off delay associated with the runway queue can be determined based at least in part on the amount of time the particular aircraft spends in the runway queue. The runway queue take-off delay can be communicated to a controller terminal of the airport to facilitate routing a different aircraft to a different runway queue associated with a shorter runway queue take-off delay to reduce fuel consumption by the different aircraft.


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