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Airport Operations Simulator
Airport operations require coordinated runway, taxiway, gate, and aircraft decisions that are difficult to demonstrate through static dashboards.
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Full demoWhat I Built
AI-powered airport operations simulation platform designed to model airport activity, aircraft movements, gate utilization, operational disruptions, and resource allocation. Simulates evolving airport conditions and uses AI-driven decision support to explore how operational teams can respond to congestion, delays, and unexpected events.
Evidence
Working interface, documented system behavior, and implementation-level decisions.
Technical Architecture
From system input to explainable output.
The control gate is shown as a first-class stage, not an afterthought added around the workflow.
Technical Decisions
- Built an airport operations simulator that runs a movement bank through a stand allocator, charging taxiway hold time whenever no compatible stand is free.
- Modelled real stand compatibility constraints: wide-body aircraft need wide stands and international arrivals need stands with inspection facilities.
- Implemented a greedy earliest-free allocator over the arrival sequence, with occupancy release computed from turn time rather than a fixed slot.
Security Considerations
- The public case study makes no additional security claim beyond the documented controls shown in the architecture.
Outcome & Evidence
- Surfaced the reason for every hold, naming the stand and the minute it frees, so the plan is explainable rather than a black-box assignment.
AISimulationAviation TechnologyData VisualizationDecision Intelligence
Working product
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Airport Ops
Interactive tower simulator
Airport OpsWorkspace3 updates
KJFK SURFACE CONTROL
ASDE-X · FIELD ELEV 13 FT · 00:00 Z
Safety
100%
Score
0
Handled
0
SURFACE MOVEMENT DISPLAY
KJFK · NEW YORK
CLEAR040° / 7 KT
ARRIVALDEPARTUREJFK GND 121.9
JFK GND 121.9RUNWAY CLEAR
Ready for push
Sequence arrivals and departures, protect the active runway, and build a clearance streak.
ARRIVAL SEQUENCE
4 aircraft
DEPARTURE QUEUE
0 aircraft
RUNWAY STATE
available
SEPARATION
released
GATE USE
2/5
VISIBILITY
10+ km
RUNWAY CONFIGURATION
Zain Khalil Khan
Client-side sandbox. State is in memory and nothing is sent to a server.
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