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2022
F. Netjasov was a host of PhD student from Politechnic University of Madrid (UPM) Mrs Lidia Serrano Mira since April 19 until July 29, 2022.
R. Jovanović was a member of Programme Committee for the 10th International Conference on Research in Air Transportation - ICRAT 2022, held 19-23 June 2022, Tampa, Florida, USA.
E. Ganić was a guest researcher at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, Department of Aeronautics as part of the bilateral project "Supporting Sustainable Development of Air Transport System", from 16th May to 20th June, 2022, in Zagreb, Croatia.
B. Mirković was re-appointed a member of Transportation Research Board (TRB) Standing Committee on Airspace and Airfield Performance (AV060), April 2022.
F. Netjasov was re-appointed a member of Transportation Research Board (TRB) Standing Committee on Aviation Safety, Security and Emergency Management (AV090), April 2022.
F. Netjasov attended ASDA General Assembly meetings (webex) on April 27, 2022.
E. Ganić was Invited Lecturer at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), on topic “Dynamic noise maps”, Online, February 18, 2022.
E. Ganić attended H2020 ASHVIN project workshop on Data exchange and interoperability held on 21 July 2022 at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), School of Civil Engineering, Barcelona, Spain.
R. Jovanović was a member of Programme Committee for the 10th International Conference on Research in Air Transportation - ICRAT 2022, held 19-23 June 2022, Tampa, Florida, USA.
E. Ganić was a guest researcher at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, Department of Aeronautics as part of the bilateral project "Supporting Sustainable Development of Air Transport System", from 16th May to 20th June, 2022, in Zagreb, Croatia.
B. Mirković was re-appointed a member of Transportation Research Board (TRB) Standing Committee on Airspace and Airfield Performance (AV060), April 2022.
F. Netjasov was re-appointed a member of Transportation Research Board (TRB) Standing Committee on Aviation Safety, Security and Emergency Management (AV090), April 2022.
F. Netjasov attended ASDA General Assembly meetings (webex) on April 27, 2022.
E. Ganić was Invited Lecturer at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), on topic “Dynamic noise maps”, Online, February 18, 2022.
2021
E. Ganić was a participant and a speaker at the H2020 ANIMA project Final Event held from 13 to 17 December 2021 at the Airport Regions Council (ARC) in Brussels, Belgium. During this event, E. Ganić also attended the ANNA workshop on 14 December and the European Aviation Noise Research Network Full Network Meeting 2021 held on 15 December 2021.
R. Jovanović was a member of the Programme Committee for the 11th SESAR Innovation Days, 7-9 December 2021, where he also chaired the “Network and Flow Management” session.
F. Netjasov and B. Mirkovic attended ASDA General Assembly meetings (webex) on December 6, 2021
B. Mirković gave a Keynote Speech on the topic “Making best use of airport airside capacity - Covering various measures to enhance capacity utilization”, at the 10th International Conference on Air Transport, INAIR 2021, Malta, November 3-4, 2021
E. Ganić was a co-advisor of two master theses in cooperation with the master thesis advisor prof. dr Jurica Ivošević: 1) Ana Marković, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on population noise exposure in the vicinity of Split Airport; 2) Sara Vuković, Impact of Noise Abatement Procedures Implementation on the Population in the Vicinity of Split Airport. Both master theses were defended on 24 September 2021 at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia.
F. Netjasov was thesis advisor for a Master theses at University of Defense – Military Academy (Milan Ristic, “Safety Management System of Helicopter Operations”), August 30, 2021.
B. Mirkovic was thesis advisor (Vladimir Jovanović, “Analysis of airport network in Republic of Serbia from the perspective of their usage for military operations”) and defense committee member (Đorđe Čorbić, “An impact of integrated electronic instruments improvements on flight safety”) for two Master theses at University of Defense – Military Academy, August 27, 2021.
F. Netjasov was Invited Lecturer at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), on topic “Modeling of Discrete Systems using Petri Nets”, Online, July 16, 2021
E. Ganić was a speaker at the ANIMA Hybrid Workshop on New Approaches to Mitigate Aviation Noise Impact held on 22 June 2021 at the Vienna International Airport.
E. Ganić was appointed a member of Transportation Research Board (TRB) Standing Committee on Environmental Issues in Aviation (AV030), April 2021.
E. Ganić participated at AV030 - Standing Committee on Environmental Issues Business Meeting held online on March 5, 2021.
F. Netjasov and B. Mirković attended ASDA General Assembly meetings (webex) on January 27, 2021.
E. Ganić participated at AV030 - Standing Committee on Environmental Issues in Aviation meeting on January 15, 2021, during (online) 100th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting.
B. Mirković participated at AV060 - Airfield and Airspace Capacity and Delay Committee meeting on January 8, 2021, during (online) 100th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting.
2020
R. Jovanović was a member of the Programme Committee for the 10th SESAR innovation Days, 7-10 December 2020, where he also chaired the “Economics and performance” session.
F. Netjasov was Member of the committee for defence of PhD research topic at University of Belgrade - Faculty of Organizational Sciences (PhD candidate Nikola Zornic), November 2020.
R. Jovanović gave a keynote speech titled “Coordinated capacity and demand management for the European ATM: lessons from the COCTA project and a way forward” at the 9th International Conference on Air Transport, INAIR 2020, held as a virtual event, organized by University of Žilina, 4-5 November 2020.
F. Netjasov and B. Mirković attended ASDA General Assembly meetings (webex) on October 22, 2020.
F. Netjasov and B. Mirković are examiners for professional engineering exam, appointed by the Ministry of construction, transport and infrastructure, October 2020.
E. Ganić attended the European Aviation Noise Research Network Full Network Meeting 2020 (held online) on 2 October 2020.
V. Tošić was referee (rapporteur) in the PhD Committee for Philippe Monmouseau (“Towards a passenger-centric approach to analyzing the multi-modal performance of air transportation system”), ENAC/Universite de Toulouse, Toulouse, September 2020.
B. Mirković was thesis advisor (Strahinja Petković, „Heliport elements design for helicopter Airbus H145M“) and defense committee member (Mihailo Milićević, “Comparative analysis of military helicopters of Eastern and Western manufacturers used in Serbian Air Force”) for two Master theses at University of Defense – Military Academy, August 25, 2020.
F. Netjasov was thesis advisor (Milivoje Vukašinović, “Helicopter Instrument procedures design principles”) and defense committee member (Vukašin Bandić, “Usage of Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast in Air Force”) for two Master theses at University of Defense – Military Academy, August 26, 2020.
R. Jovanović was a member of Programme Committee for the 9th International Conference on Research in Air Transportation - ICRAT 2020, Tampa, Florida, USA.
Bojana Mirkovic participated at AV060 - Airfield and Airspace Capacity and Delay Committee meeting on January 14, 2020, during 99th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting in Washington D.C.
2019
F. Netjasov was a reviewer of the project proposals for 2019 TRB Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP)
B. Mirkovic, R. Jovanovic and F. Netjasov were reviewers of Catalyst Fund Project proposals under ENGAGE KTN (2019 and 2020)
E. Ganić was a visiting lecturer at University of Zagreb, Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, 13 December 2019. Title of the lecture was "Noise abatement measures at airports".
F. Netjasov was a Chairman of the Session “Decision Support Tools” at SID 2019, Athens, Greece, December 2-5, 2019.
R. Jovanović was a member of Programme Committee for the 9th SESAR Innovation Days, Athens, Greece, 2-4 December 2019
F. Netjasov was a programme Committee Member of the 3rd H-WORKLOAD Conference - the 3rd International Symposium on Human Mental Workload: Models and Applications, Roma, Italy, 14-15. November, 2019.
E. Ganić has been employed as Research Associate at the Division since November 1, 2019.
E. Ganić attended the European Aviation Noise Research Network Full Network Meeting 2019 held at Roma Tre University, Department of Engineering, Via Vito Volterra 62, 00146, Roma, Italia on 25 September 2019.
E. Ganić became a member of European Aviation Noise Research Network (X-NOISE) as a representative of the Republic of Serbia responsible for noise impact project proposals, September 2019.
V. Tosic was a Session Chair at the 14th International Joint Transportation Conference, Calgary, Canada, August 18-20, 2019.
F. Netjasov was a reviewer of the textbook “Introduction to Air Transport” written by M. Kalic, D. Babic and S. Dozic, 2019.
F. Netjasov was a External Examiner of the PhD Thesis: Álvaro Rodríguez Sanz (April 2019, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
B. Mirković has been employed as Associate Professor at the Division since April 1, 2019.
B. Mirkovic became a Main Member of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Standing Committee on Airfield and Airspace Capacity and Delay (AV060), April 2019.
COCTA project won the Jane’s ATC Award 2019 in the category “Innovation”. The awards were announced at the World ATM Congress in Madrid, on 12 March 2019.
2018
Emir Ganić was a member of Organisation Committee for the 26th International Conference “Noise and Vibration, Nis, Serbia, December 6-7, 2018
Radosav Jovanović was a member of the Programme Committee for the 8th SESAR innovation Days, Salzburg, Austria, 3-7 December 2018, where he also chaired the “Flow management” session.
Bojana Mirković, Feđa Netjasov and Vojin Tošić, in cooperation with German Aviation Research Society – GARS, privided Technical Consultation on Gimhae New Airport Master Plan, for POSCO E&C, South Korea, October 2018.
Radosav Jovanovic attended the Engage KTN workshop „Novel and more effective markets in ATM“, held in London on 25 October 2018.
Vojin Tošić was a member of the jury in the PhD Committee for Imen Dhief (“Optimization of aircraft trajectories over the North Atlantic Airspace”), ENAC/Universite de Toulouse, September 2018.
COCTA project final workshop was held in EUROCONTROL, Brussels, on 14 September 2018.
Bojana Mirkovic was engaged by the Ministry of construction, transport and infrastructure, Republic of Serbia, as a member of working group for the “Air Transport Development Strategy 2019-2025”.
Since academic year 2018-2019, Fedja Netjasov is lecturing Air Traffic Control and Introduction to Sisk and Safety in Air Navigation at University of defence – Military academy, program Military aviation – Pilots.
Radosav Jovanovic, Nikola Ivanov and Goran Pavlovic, the COCTA team from UB-FTTE, held a dedicated workshop with Nick Rhodes (NM Aircraft Operators Liaison Cell) and Christopher Woodland (Thomas Cook Group ATC/Flight Planning Manager and the chair of NM Aircraft Operators Group) to discuss demand management aspects of the COCTA research. Aircraft Operators’ representatives acted on their personal behalf and provided their personal (expert’s) opinion and feedback.
In the course of the COCTA project, Radosav Jovanovic and Obrad Babic had a meeting with Skyguide’s capacity management team in their Geneva premises on 23 July 2018.
Since July 2018, Emir Ganić is a member of Committee for standards and related documents KS Z043 - Noise protection, within the Institute for Standardization of Serbia.
Radosav Jovanović was a member of Programme Committee for the 8th International Conference on Research in Air Transportation - ICRAT 2018, Barcelona, Spain, 25-29 June 2018.
Radosav Jovanovic presented the COCTA project at Eurocontrol on 14 May 2018. The meeting had the presence of Joe Sultana, the Network Manager Director and Xavier Fron, the EUROCONTROL’s Performance Coordinator, among others. The COCTA team (Radosav Jovanovic and Nikola Ivanov) received positive feedback and valuable recommendations from the meeting participants.
Fedja Netjasov was a Member of the committee for defence of Ph.D. thesis: Man Liang, “Aircraft Route Network Optimization in Terminal Maneuvering Area ”, ENAC/ University Paul Sabatier – Toulouse 3, Toulouse, France, February 2018.
2017
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Since academic year 2017-2018, Bojana Mirkovic is lecturing Airports at University of defence – Military academy, program Military aviation – Pilots.
Bojana Mirkovic was a Member of the committee for evaluation and defence of Ph.D. thesis: Matija Bracic, “Optimization of airport management processes targeted to aircraft delay reduction”, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, Croatia, May 23, 2017.
Radosav Jovanović was a member of the Programme Committee for the 7th SESAR innovation Days, Belgrade, Serbia, 28-30 November 2017.
Fedja Netjasov was an external examiner for defence of Ph.D. thesis: Ana Del Rocío Barragán Montes, “Finding a Causal Method for the Prediction and Assessment of Safety Performance in an Air Traffic Management Service”, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, June 2017.
Fedja Netjasov was a Member of the committee for defence of Ph.D. thesis: Zoran Jakšić, “Evaluation of the Impact of Automation on the Air Traffic Control System Capacity”, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia, January 2017.
Vojin Tosic was reappointed a member of the SESAR Scientific Committee.
2016
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Bojana Mirkovic was a Member of the committee for PhD topic and candidate evaluation: Matija Bracic, working title “Model of proactive airport management”, at University of Zagreb, Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, Croatia
Fedja Netjasov was a member of Expert panel for SESAR-ComplexWorld network and was contibuting in writing of report under title “Complexity Challenges in ATM” (2016), pp 48.
Fedja Netjasov was a member of Expert panel for SESAR-ComplexWorld network and was contibuting in writing of report under title “Complexity Challenges in ATM” (2016), pp 48.
Radosav Jovanović was a member of the Programme Committee for the 6th SESAR innovation Days, Delft, the Netherlands, 8-10 November 2016.
Vojin Tosic and Bojana Mirkovic attended Workshop on Master Plan Review for the Next Generation of Incheon International Airport, organized by German Aviation Research Society (GARS) and Korea Aerospace University, together with Yooshin Engineering Corporation, Incheon Airport, Seoul, South Korea, October 2016. V. Tošić gave a presentation on „Evaluation of the Capacity of Current Airspace Structure and Arrival/Departure Procedures”. B. Mirkovic gave a presentation on two topics: „European Way to Enhance Overall Airside Capacity - research and practice review“ and „Evaluation of Capacity Balance among Facilities of IIA“
Radosav Jovanović is a member of Programme Committee for the 7th International Conference on Research in Air Transportation - ICRAT 2016, Philadelphia, USA, 20-24 June 2016.
Vojin Tosic and Bojana Mirkovic attended Workshop on Incheon International Airport Project, organized by German Aviation Research Society (GARS) and Korea Aerospace University, together with Yooshin Engineering Corporation, ZAW – Center for European Economic Research, Mannheim, Germany, June 2016. B. Mirkovic gave a presentation on „Capacity Enhancement Plan - research and practice review”.
Fedja Netjasov was an external examiner for defence of Ph.D. thesis: Murad Hossain, “ On Capacity Estimation and Capacity-Safety Relationship in an Air Transportation Network ”, University of New South Wales, Australia, April 2016.
2015
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Bojana Mirković and Vojin Tošić in cooperation with prof. Juergen Mueller, Berlin School of Economics and Law performed Evaluation of Candidate Sites and Selection of the Site for New International Airport in Yeongnam, South Korea, for Daegu Gyongbuk Development Institute, South Korea, July, 2015.
Since 2015, Bojana Mirkovic is lecturing Airport courses at SMATSA LLC ANS Personnel Training Centre, ATCO training programs Basic/Rating/Refresh.
Radosav Jovanović was a member of the Programme Committee for the 5th SESAR innovation Days, Bologna, Italy, 1-3 December 2015.
In October 2015, Vojin Tošić was an external committee member for PhD thesis defence at University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Candidate: Varuna Adikariwattage; Topic: Service Quality Benchmarking Methodology for Airport Passenger Terminals Based on Level of Facility Provision
Obrad Babić was an external member of the committee for defence of Ph.D. thesis: Slavica Radivojević, “Development and design of a level of service (LOS)-based decision support system (DSS) tool for disruption management of flight operations affected by the airline prioritisation policy”, RTWH Aachen University, Germany, 2 October 2015.
Vojin Tosic and Bojana Mirkovic attended Workshop on Education and Training Needs for Aviation Engineers and Researchers in Europe, organized by ACARE, at European Comission, Brussels, September 23, 2015. B. Mirkovic gave a presentation „Experience in educating air transport and traffic engineers“ in Session 2: Education and Training – What we do to meet the industry needs. V.Tosic was scene setter for panel discussion on „What are the scenarios to meet needs of the air transport industry?”
On 7-8 September 2015, Bojana Mirković visited DLR in Braunschweig, Germany. The prospects of possible cooperation were discussed with colleagues from DLR and TU Delft.
Since August 2015, Fedja Netjasov has been appointed a member of the National Committee for Aviation Safety of the Government of Republic of Serbia
Bojana Mirković was an external member of the committee for defence of Ph.D. thesis: Amila Sandaradura Silva, “Quantitative risk analysis of obstacle limitation standards”, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 14 May 2015.
Since January 2015, Fedja Netjasov has been appointed a Programme Committee Member of the SYM-OP-IS (Symposium of Operations Research)
Fedja Netjasov was an Organizer and Chairman of the panel session 704: “Air Traffic Management: Applied Research Opportunities in Security, Emergency Management, and Safety” at Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 13, 2015.
2013-2014
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Since April 2014, Fedja Netjasov has been appointed a member of the Committee on Aviation Security and Emergency Management (AV090) of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Research Council (NRC), administered by the US National Academy of Sciences, the US National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine.
Fedja Netjasov was a Member of the committee for evaluation and defence of Ph.D. thesis: Tomislav Radišić, “The Effect of Trajectory-based Operations on Air Traffic Complexity”, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia, 2014.
On February 7, 2014, Obrad Babic, Vojin Tosic, Fedja Netjasov and Radosav Jovanovic visited HungaroControl in Budapest. After the meeting in the HQ, and the tour of the OPS room, the prospects of possible cooperation were discussed with HungaroControl CRDS.
Since 2013, Radosav Jovanovic is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the European Aviation Conference.
Vojin Tosic was reappointed a member of the SESAR Scientific Committee.
2010 – 2012
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Vojin Tosic was Member of the committee for habilitiation of Dr Daniel Delahaye, ENAC, Toulouse, France, September 2012.
Obrad Babic was a member of Scientific Board of International Conference on Air Transport - INAIR 2012, organized by the University of Zilina, and held at Zilina, Slovakia, on September 20-21,2012
On June 20, 2012 at the Faculty Academic Council Dr Daniel Delahaye, professor from Ecole Nationale de l’Aviation Civile – ENAC, Toulouse, France was nominated a co-mentor of Andrija Vidosavljevic PhD and subsequently verified on September 17, 2012 at the University of Belgrade.
Vojin Tosic was a member of Program Committee for the 5th International Conference on Research in Air Transportation - ICRAT 2012, jointly organized by the EUROCONTROL and FAA, which was held at University of California, Berkeley, USA on May 22-25, 2012.
In July 2011 Collaboration agreement was signed between University of Belgrade, Faculty of Transport and Traffic Engineering and the French Civil Aviation University (Ecole Nationale de l’Aviation Civile – ENAC, Toulouse). Principal researchers were Dr Vojin Tosic, professor representing UB-FTTE and Dr Daniel Delahaye representing ENAC.
Professor Vojin Tosic was a member of Program Committee for the 4th International Conference on Research in Air Transportation - ICRAT 2010, jointly organized by the EUROCONTROL Organization and Budapest University of Technology & Economics, which was held in Budapest, Hungary on June 01-04, 2010. Also, Professor Tosic was a Chairman of Session "Airport Design and Operations".
2006 – 2009
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In August 2009 Vojin Tosic is appointed as a member of the SESAR Scientific Committee.
Vojin Tosic was Member of the committee for evaluation and defence of Ph.D. thesis: Milan Stefanik "Problems of Airport Capacity Assessment", University of Zilina, Zilina, Slovakia, 2009.
On 13 March, 2009 a members of Division of Airports and Air Traffic Safety and Division of Aircraft Operations and Air Transport Planning and Management have visited the Department of Air Transport, of University of Zilina (Slovakia), hosted by Prof. dr Antonin Kazda. The visit is organized as part of academic cooperation between the two Faculties. During the visit a following lectures are offered to students and professors of University of Zilina:
• Prof. Obrad Babic: "Instrument Arrival and Approach Procedures, Case Study: Airport Nis";
• Prof. Vojin Tosic: "Airport Passenger Handling: One Model";
• Prof. Milica Kalic: "Airline Scheduling: From Planning to Operations";
• Fedja Netjasov: "Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS)";
• Slavica Dozic: "Irregular Airline Operations: Decision Support System";
• Radosav Jovanovic: "Air Navigation Services Charges in Europe".
On February 21, 2008 professors from the University of Zilina, Department of Air Transport, dr Antonin Kazda, dr Benedikt Badanik and dr Andrej Novak visited the Department and considered cooperation of the two Faculties.
Professor Vojin Tosic was a member of Program Committee for the 7th USA/Europe Seminar on Air Traffic Management Research and Development, jointly organized by the United States Federal Aviation Administration and the EUROCONTROL Organization, which was held in Barcelona, Spain on July 02-05, 2007. Also, Professor Tosic was an Dynamic Airspace Management Session Rapporteur.
Vojin Tosic was the Conference Co-Chair and Local Organisation Chair and Obrad Babic was a member of the Program Committee of the "2nd International Conference on Research in Air Transportation - ICRAT 2006", organised by EUROCONTROL Experimental Centre (Bretigny, France), and the Faculty of Transport and Traffic Engineering, Department of Air Transport (Belgrade, Serbia), June 24-28, 2006.
Prof Vojin Tosic and Prof. Obrad Babic, together with Prof. Milica Kalic and Danica Pavlovic from Division of Aircraft Operation and Air Transport Planning and Management, and Zlatko Jegdic, general manager of SAGA (IT Company from Belgrade), have visited the Operational Center of Austrian Airlines, March 28-30, 2006. During the visit Prof. Kalic, Prof. Babic and Danica Pavlovic held the presentation on: "Daily Operational Flight Schedule Design - Decision Support Tool".
2002 – 2005________________________________________
Prof. Vojin Tosic was a Keynote Speaker, with the topic "Airspace Management", at IV SITRAER (Simposio de Transporte Aereo), San Jose dos Campos, Brazil, November 17 - 18, 2005.
Prof Vojin Tosic and Prof. Obrad Babic, together with Prof. Milica Kalic from Division of Aircraft Operation and Air Transport Planning and Management, have visited University of Trieste, October 26-29, 2005. Prof. Babic has, within the postgraduate studies, held 6 classes of lectures on: "Air Cargo Transport" and "Air Traffic Management"; and Prof. Kalic has held 4 classes of lectures on: "Airline Operations: Network and Schedule Design". During the visit a meeting about cooperation and organisation of joint Master Studies was held. Dr Walter Ukovich and Dr Lorenzo Castelli from University of Trieste; as well as Dr Natascha Kuenstner and Mr Michaela Heese from University of Graz have attended the meeting.
On August 29, 2005. Prof. Vojin Tosic and Prof. Obrad Babic, together with Prof. Milica Kalic from Division of Aircraft Operation and Air Transport Planning and Management, have visited the Operational Center of Austrian Airlines. During the visit a presentation of the Airline Schedule Optimization Project (done for the JAT Airways) was held.
Professor Vojin Tosic was a program committee member for the 6th USA/Europe Seminar on Air Traffic Management Research and Development, jointly organized by the United States Federal Aviation Administration and the EUROCONTROL Organization, held in Baltimore (InnerHarbor), Maryland, USA, June 27-30, 2005. Also, Professor Tosic was an Airspace Management Session Rapporteur.
On June 14, 2005. Prof. Vojin Tosic and Prof. Obrad Babic, together with Prof. Milica Kalic from Division of Aircraft Operation and Air Transport Planning and Management, have visited Adria Airways and the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. During the visit to University, Prof. Obrad Babic offered a lecture titled "Free Flight Concept Distributed Air/Ground Traffic Management".
On June 13, 2005. Prof Vojin Tosic and Prof. Obrad Babic, together with Prof. Milica Kalic from Division of Aircraft Operation and Air Transport Planning and Management, have visited Karl-Franzens University in Graz (Institute for Work Psychology-Division for Aviation Psychology) hosted by Prof. dr Wolfgang Kallus; as well as the University of Applied Sciences FH JOANNEUM, hosted by Prof. dr Hannes Fogt.
Professor Vojin Tosic was a program committee member for the "1st International Conference on Research in Air Transportation - ICRAT 2004", organized by EUROCONTROL Experimental Centre, (Bretigny, France) and University of Zilina, Department of Air Transportation (Zilina, Slovakia) held in Zilina, Slovakia between November 22-24, 2004. Also, Professor Tosic was a chairman of the conference session "Decision Support Tools".
In October 2004, the Division hosted Milan Janic, Ph.D. (alumni), Senior Researcher at OTB Research Institute, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands. Mr. Janic also took part in the Master thesis defence of Teaching and Research Assistant Tatjana Krstic Simic, as a member of the committee for evaluating and approving the thesis.
On May 21st 2004, delegation from EUROCONTROL CRDS led by CRDS head, Mr Philippe Debels, Ms Sophie Dusire and Ms Renee Schuen-Medwed, Human Factors Experts, as well as Mr David Brain, RAMS Expert, visited the Faculty. During the visit the guests attended the presentation of the final results of the undergraduate thesis completed by Miss Mara Cujic, and sponsored by the CRDS. Talks on further cooperation between CRDS and the Division of Airports and Air Traffic Safety were also held at this time.
Vojin Tosic has been reappointed to the Committee on Airfield and Airspace Capacity and Delay, Transportation Research Board, division of the National Research Council, of the US National Academics, Washington, D.C., USA.
In October 2003, the Division started cooperation with Department of Psychology, Karl-FranzensUniversity, Graz, Austria. The main goal of cooperation is preparation of a common project proposal for the 6th Framework Programme for Research, Technological Development and demonstration, founded by European Commission. Besides the mentioned partners, EUROCONTROL CRDS Budapest, also participates in the proposal. Several meetings were held as part of the project preparations (three in Graz and one in Belgrade).
From September 2003, the Division continued its cooperation with the Center for Research, Development and Simulation (CRDS), of the European Organization for the Safety of Air Navigation (EUROCONTROL) in Budapest, which sponsored a undergraduate thesis on the topic of "Differences in Capacity and Workload Between Different Types of ATC Simulations". Student Mara Cujic, whose thesis was sponsored, is working at the Center in Budapest while writing the paper.
In early July 2003, the Division was host to Daniel Delahaye, Ph.D., docent at Ecole National de l'Aviation Civil (ENAC), Toulouse, France. Mr. Delahaye also took part in the master's thesis defense of Teaching and Research Assistant Fedja Netjasov, as a member of the committee for evaluating and approving the thesis.
In March 2003, the Division continued its cooperation with the Center for Research, Development and Simulation (CRDS), of the European Organization for the Safety of Air Navigation (EUROCONTROL) in Budapest, which sponsored a undergraduate thesis on the topic of "Analysis of Incidents in the CEATS Upper Airspace Using TOKAI Toolkit and ECCAIRS Database". Student Filip Trandafilovski, whose thesis was sponsored, is working at the Center in Budapest while writing the paper.
On July 1-2, 2002, delegation from EUROCONTROL headed by Mr. Christian Pusch, vice-president of EEC for Research and Development visited the Faculty. Also participating were Mr Philippe Debels head of CRDS, Budapest, Mr Iosif Ackerman, RAMS expert and Mr Cris Vermeiren, human factor expert also from CRDS. During the visit, the delegation attended the presentation of the final results of the granted projects and also held negotiation on the further form of cooperation between EUROCONTROL and the Division of Airports and Air Traffic Safety.
In April, 2002, the Division was visited by firm RAYTHEON, which presented its new system of integrated data processing and presentation for ACC's.
In March, 2002, CRDS EUROCONTROL consigned the newest version of Air Traffic simulator RAMS.
1998 – 2001________________________________________
During November 2001, Division has started cooperation with Center for Research, Development and Simulation (CRDS), EUROCONTROL in Budapest. Cooperation has resulted with two grants for udergraduate thesis in area of Air Traffic Control with following topics: "RAMS and SIMMOD Simulators Comparison" and "Human Factor Modelling for Fast-Time Simulations". Students Olja Vujic and Marija Askovic, which reports are granted, spent four months in Budapest during work on those projects.
December 2001, the Division organized the visit by the Spanish firm INDRA which made two presentations on this occasion: "AIRCON 2000 - Air Traffic Control System for Approach, En Route and Control Tower" and "IRS-20MP/L - Monopulse Secondary Surveillance Radar for En Route and Approach".
In September 2001, professors and assistants visited ENAC (Ecole Nationale d'Aviation Civile) and CENA (Centre d'Etudes de la Navigation Aerienne) in Toulouse, invited by Dr Daniel Delahaye. The visit extended to EurocontrolExperimentalCenter in Bretigny. Basic plans for further research cooperation were made during these visits.
Vojin Tosic was Member of the committee for evaluation and defense of Ph.D. thesis: Sofiane Oussedik "Application de technique d'evolution artificielle aux problemes de congestion du traffic aerien", Universite Paris - Sud - Centre Scientifique d'Orsay, December 2000.
During summer vacation 2001, two graduate students had professional summer training organized through IAESTE (International Association for Exchange of Students for Technical experience) and AENA (Aeropuertos Espagnoles y Navegacion Aerea), Spanish Civil Aviation Authorities. Both students spent three months at Madrid. Olja Vujic worked on airport problems while Marija Askovic analyzed air traffic and controller workload.
During summer vacation 2000, three graduate students and junior assistants had professional summer training organized through IAESTE (International Association for Exchange of Students for Technical Experience) and DAAD (Deutschen Akademischen AustauschDienst).
Tatjana Bolic, junior assistant on leave of absence, joined the Institute of Transport Studies (ITS), University of California at Berkeley. She is a gradatue student in the Transportation program and works as a research assistant in NEXTOR (National Center of Excellence for Aviation Operations Research).
Vojin Tosic was nominated as member of the Airfield and Airspace Committee, Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., USA.
Vojin Tosic was a member of the International Program Committee of the International Conference "Modelling and Management in Transportation" organized by Poznan and Cracow Universities of Technology and the EURO Working Group on Transportation, to be held in Poland, October 12-16, 1999. He also helped organize Conference sessions on Air Transportation.
Mr Oussedik visited the Division again in June 1998 during one week. That time he held a training session for graduate and senior year students working with the Division in using CATS simulator. The CATS (Complete Air Traffic Simulator) was kindly supplied to the Division by CENA, to be used for research purposes. During the session a simple case study of the Yugoslav airspace was performed.
1993-1994
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During July and August of 1994 Drobnjak Zeljko and Tadic Biljana had summer practice and training at the MunichAirport organized by IAESTE (International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience) and DAAD (Deutschen Akademischen Austausch Dienst).