Abstract
ABSTRACTRoute planning and airspace sectorisation are two central tasks in air traffic management. Traditionally, the routing and sectorisation problems were considered separately, with aircraft trajectories serving as input to the sectorisation problem and, reciprocally, sectors being part of the input to the path finding algorithms.In this paper we propose a simultaneous design of routes and sectors for a transition airspace. We compare two approaches for this integrated design: one based on mixed integer programming, and one Voronoi-based model that separates potential “hotspots” of controller activity resulting from the terminal routes.We apply our two approaches to the design of Stockholm Terminal Maneuvering Area.
Highlights
Terminal airspace design involves bringing functionality to all three air traffic management (ATM) systems—airspace management, air traffic flow and capacity management and air traffic control
We suggest that different parts of sector boundaries may be constrained with different “strength” – some parts must be subject to hard constraints, while the rest of the boundaries may be treated as “soft” connections; this adheres to the generic paradigm of “providing structure where necessary and flexibility where possible”
We apply our model to the Terminal Maneuvering Area (TMA), as Standard Terminal Arrival Routes (STARs) and Standard Instrument Departures (SIDs) quite clearly define the traffic layout
Summary
Terminal airspace design involves bringing functionality to all three air traffic management (ATM) systems—airspace management (design of arrival and departure route configurations), air traffic flow and capacity management (mapping aircraft to available capacity) and air traffic control (in particular, splitting the airspace into sectors). Trajectory planning and sectorisation were considered separately, as two different problems This was partially due to intractability of the combined problem with earlier computational tools and partially to historical reasons (the need for trajectory optimisation arose in some instances, while sector redesign was called for at other places/times). Voronoi-based, approach is based on using disjoint disks to separate potential “hotspots” of air traffic controller (ATCO) activity on the terminal routes. We apply our model to the TMA, as Standard Terminal Arrival Routes (STARs) and Standard Instrument Departures (SIDs) quite clearly define the traffic layout
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