The Airportal Project will investigate innovative new technologies, approaches, and procedures with the goal of enabling capacity enhancements within the airport and terminal domains to meet the JPDO NextGen capacity goals. Through collaboration with university and industry partners, foundational research will be conducted to identify and characterize constraints and uncertainties, and to develop innovative solutions to address them. Further assessment will be undertaken in conjunction with industry partners in research areas that require systems analyses and evaluation. The Project will utilize selected proposals under the NRA to leverage in-house foundational research with academic institutions, non-profit organizations, and industry performing foundation research to address technology gaps.

The following are ROA-2007 NRA awards for the NextGen-Airportal Project, with the most recent listed first.

PI Last Name Title Organization State Award Date Year 1 Amount Hasan Integrated Analysis of Airportal Capacity and Environmental Constraints Logistics Management Institute VA 12/14/2007 $607,317 Thompson NNH06ZEA001N-AP--Subtopic 1: MEFISTO--Modeling Environmental Factors In Surface Traffic Optimization Metron Aviation VA 09/25/2007 $1,129,552 Wei Integrated Approaches for Surface Traffic Optimization in the Presence of Uncertainties San Jose State University CA 09/24/2007 $497,000 Clarke Surface Traffic Optimization in the Presence of Uncertainties Georgia Institute of Technology GA 09/13/2007 $701,000 Donohue Metroplex Operations George Mason University VA 08/24/2007 $643,167 Clarke Characterization of and Concepts for Metroplex Operations Georgia Institute of Technology GA 08/10/2007 $726,339.36