Seth Young

Job title: 
Senior Vice President of Operations
Department: 
Alumni
University of Maryland
The Aviation Planning Group
Bio/CV: 

Dissertation: Assessing the Benefits of Automated Pedestrian Movement Systems

Advisor: Mark Hansen

PhD Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1998

MS Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of California, Berkeley, 1991

BS Applied Mathematics, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1990

The Aviation Planning Group - Present 

  • Senior Vice President of Operations
  • Principal Aviation Project Manager

The University of Maryland - Present 

  • Visiting Research Professor

Seth Young is an internationally recognized leader and expert in aviation and airport operations, planning, and management.

Dr. Young was previously the McConnell Chair of Aviation and Director of the Center for Aviation Studies at The Ohio State University. He is a longtime collaborator with David Lovell on a variety of research and academic initiatives through the NEXTOR consortium.  He and Dr. Lovell are continuing a multi-year project funded by through the FAA's Office of Airports to estimate aircraft performance metrics that will be used as inputs into a developing small airport capacity model. The upcoming years of this project will include the continued development of hardware and transference of software architecture from The Ohio State University to servers hosted by ISR.

Research interests: 

Infrastructure Planning

Capacity and Delay Estimation

Airside and landside Operations

Security Policies

Financing of civil use airports