Operation Heli-STAR - Cargo Simulation System. Volume 7

Abstract

Operation Heli-STAR (Helicopter Short-Haul Transportation and Aviation Research) was established and operated in Atlanta, Georgia, during the period of the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games. Heli-STAR had three major thrusts: (1) the establishment and operation of a helicopter-based cargo transportation system, (2) the management of low-altitude air traffic in the airspace of an urban area, and (3) the collection and analysis of research and development data associated with items 1 and 2. Heli-STAR was a cooperative industry/government program that included parcel package shippers and couriers in the Atlanta area, the helicopter industry, aviation electronics manufacturers, the Federal Aviation Administration (FA%), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and support contractors. Several detailed reports have been produced as a result of Operation Heli-STAR. These include 4 reports on acoustic measurements and associated analyses, and reports on the Heli-STAR tracking data including the data processing and retrieval system, the Heli-STAR cargo simulation, and the community response system. In addition, NASA's Advanced General Aviation Transport Experiments (AGATE) program has produced a report describing the Atlanta Communications Experiment (ACE) which produced the avionics and ground equipment using automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) technology. This latter report is restricted to organizations belonging to NASA's AGATE industry consortium. A complete list of these reports is shown on the following page.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1997
Accession Number
ADA370914

Entities

People

  • Charles Stancil
  • Ellen Bass

Organizations

  • Georgia Tech Research Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Traffic
  • Air Traffic Controllers
  • Aircrafts
  • Commercial Aviation
  • Computers
  • Electronic Mail
  • Flight Paths
  • Free Flight
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Linear Programming
  • Network Protocols
  • Object Oriented Programming
  • Operations Research
  • Systems Engineering
  • Transportation
  • Urban Areas
  • User Interface

Readers

  • Aviation Safety and Air Traffic Management
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems
  • Space