Abstract
NASA NextGen-Airspace Project’s System Level Design, Analysis, and Simulation Tools (SLDAST) Research Focus Area (RFA) has developed the Airspace Concept Evaluation System (ACES) for the assessment of the impact of advanced Air Traffic Management (ATM) concepts. Currently, ACES does not have detailed airport surface models which are required for detailed assessment of NextGen surface ATM concepts. To bridge this gap, the SLDAST Airport Scenario Generation Team (ASGT), composed of NASA Ames Research Center, Perot Systems, Sensis Corporation, and Optimal Synthesis Inc., undertook an effort to generate detailed link-node models for airport surfaces and convert these airport linknode models into a format suitable for ACES. This paper outlines the SLDAST airport linknode model generation and conversion processes, and summarizes the use of these models to support ACES-based assessments. A companion paper will describe in detail the software tools (SurfTools) used in this airport model generation process.
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