Peter belobaba biography

MIT has a keen interest in and strong credentials in airline industry research and education.

Peter P. Belobaba has been involved in the development and testing of PODS since 1996.

The Institute created in 1964 the Flight Transportation Laboratory (FTL) to study air transportation. During the following 30 years FTL pioneered research and education on practically every aspect of air transportation, spawning many ideas and innovations which have made a deep impact on the industry.

In 1995, the scope of FTL was expanded through the establishment of the International Center for Air Transportation (ICAT) whose domain of interests includes the role of automation and human factors in aviation, in addition to airlines and to aviation infrastructure (airports and air traffic control).

At the same time, at least 15 MIT faculty in the Departments of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Economics, Electrical Engineering/ Computer Science, Political Science and in the Sloan School of Management have a strong interest and enjoy wide recognit