Professor Richard de Neufville
 Prof.Richard de Neufvillle
Engineering Systems Division and
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Richard de Neufville teaches the MIT course on airport planning together with Prof. Amedeo Odoni. They co-authored the text Airport Systems: Planning, Design and Management (McGraw-Hill) and received the US Federal Aviation Administration prize for Excellence in Aviation Education.
He specializes in airport design and management. He has written numerous papers (see http://ardent.mit.edu/airports ). He has worked with airports on every continent – except Antarctica. In 2009, the US Transportation Research Board recognized him with the McKelvey Prize in Aviation.
His current research focuses on flexibility in the design of complex infrastructure, airports in particular. Flexible designs enable managers to exploit new opportunities easily and to avoid the major consequences of unfavorable developments (see http://ardent.mit.edu/real_options ). His text on the subject is scheduled for publication in 2010.
He is a member of the Oversight Committee of the US Airport Cooperative Research Program. He is the author of 6 textbooks in systems analysis and technology management. For this work he and his team have received several awards for excellence in teaching and two of the annual awards for “the Most Significant Contributions to MIT Education”.
Professor Amedeo Odoni
 Prof. Amedeo Odoni
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Amedeo Odoni has been co-director of the MIT Operations Research Center and specializes in the application of queuing theory to the understanding and improvement of airport operations. His current research develops models and tools for exploring demand/capacity and demand/delay relationships in airports and air traffic control (ATC), and for using available airport and ATC resources effectively on a daily basis.
He worked extensively on the development of computer-aided design of airport passenger terminals, particularly approximate, numerical and graphics models for the preliminary design, dimensioning, comparison and selection of terminal configurations.
He consults actively worldwide, principally in Europe, where he lives half of every year. He has had particularly close relationships with the Athens Airport. As of 2009, he is the co-director of a major long-term research project with the Government of Singapore.
Professor Odoni is the author or co-author of three books and more than 80 professional publications, as well as co-editor of six books. He served as editor-in-chief of Transportation Science from 1985 to 1991, and is a current or past member of the editorial boards of many professional journals, including Operations Research, Transportation Science, Transportation Research, Interfaces, and the Journal of Aircraft.
Dr Peter P. Belobaba
 Dr. Peter P. Belobaba
International Center for Air Transportation
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Peter P. Belobaba is Principal Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he teaches graduate courses on The Airline Industry and Airline Management. He is Program Manager of MIT’s Global Airline Industry Program and Director of the MIT PODS Revenue Management Research Consortium. He is also Adjunct Professor of Aviation Management in the International Aviation MBA Program at Concordia University in Montreal. Dr. Belobaba holds a Master of Science in Transportation and a Ph.D. in Flight Transportation Systems from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Dr. Belobaba has been involved in research and consulting related to airline economics, pricing, competition and revenue management since 1985. He has worked as a consultant on the evaluation, development, simulation, and implementation of revenue management systems at over forty airlines and other companies worldwide. He has also published articles dealing with operating costs, pricing, revenue management and airline competition in Airline Business, Operations Research, Transportation Science, Decision Sciences, Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management, Transportation Research and the Journal of Air Transport Management.
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