34. DANAE-ZOE MITKAS
Information acquired: 2025
DANAE-ZOE MITKAS is an academic who published a paper in 2021 entitled Extracting capacity metrics for General Aviation airports from ADS-B data. DANAE-ZOE MITKAS published this work as part of a team: Mitkas, Danae Zoe. Here is a description of this work: General Aviation airports play a pivotal role in the aviation system of the US, with over 5000 small airports existing and operating across the country. Serving almost exclusively small aircraft, these airports have a unique activity profile, compared to larger commercial airports. Like their larger cousins, they occasionally see the need to apply for federal funding for capacity enhancement projects, a process that requires rigorous documentation of the demand and capacity situation at the airport. Existing models for capacity estimation have been calibrated to reflect the much larger scale features that dominate large airports. The main challenge is to develop a method to provide precise data for small airports that operate mainly with small single or multi-engine aircraft. These airports are typically not towered and, hence, do not.