Graduate Research Award Program on Public-Sector Aviation Issues Update: 2008–2017 (2016)

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9ACADEMIC YEAR 2014–2015 Applications for the academic year 2014–2015 were due in May 2014. Fifty-five submissions were received from students representing 38 different universities. The applicant pool included 35 PhD candidates and 20 master’s degree candidates. The selection panel met in Washington, D.C., for 2 days in the summer to evaluate the submittals. Ten appli- cants were selected, each of whom would receive a stipend of $10,000 for successful completion of a research paper on the subject chosen by the applicant (Table 4). Additionally, given changes that occurred during the development of one paper, an applicant whose research topic was selected during academic year 2013–14 completed the project and paper dur- ing academic year 2014–15. Table 4 and the abstracts listed for academic year 2014–15 therefore reflect the work of 11 participants. The results of an outreach survey of the participants are included in Appendix A of this digest. Table 4 Research papers selected for academic year 2014–2015. Student Degree Research Paper University Jacob Avery Master’s Data-Driven Modeling and Prediction of the Process for Selecting Runway Configurations Massachusetts Institute of Technology Benjamin Bacon PhD Typology of Travelers Based on Their Annual Intercity Travel Patterns Developed from 2013 Longitudinal Survey of Overnight Travel Auburn University Kanthasamy Chelliah PhD Demonstration of the Possibilities of Using a Phased Microphone Array as the Next- Generation Airport Noise Monitoring System Illinois Institute of Technology Heng Chen PhD Value of Extended Time-Based Metering for Optimized Profile Descent–Based Arrival Operations University of Massachusetts Elizabeth Connelly PhD Resilience Analytics of a Future Supply Chain for Aviation Biofuels The University of Virginia Makarand Gawade* PhD Synthesis of Remote Air Traffic Control System and Air Traffic Controllers’ Perceptions University of South Florida Jonathan Keeney PhD Leveraging Worker Safety Perceptions to Promote Safe Performance in Airports: Investigating the Framing of Safety Standards and Worker Safety Construal University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Carey Anne Nadeau Master’s Unaffordable Fare: Cost of Public Transportation for Low-Income Commuters Working at Chicago, Illinois, Midway International Airport Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lauren Bowers Reddy PhD Opinion Survey to Reduce Uncertainty in Public and Stakeholder Perception of Unmanned Aircraft Purdue University Stephanie Sherman Master’s Quantifying the Effects of Uncertainty in a Decentralized National Airspace System Virginia Tech Navaneethan Sivagnanasundaram PhD Examining Aviation Navigation Display Symbology in Visual Search Wichita State University *Final research paper for topic accepted to the program during academic year 2013–2014.