A Concept for Robust, High Density Terminal Air Traffic Operations

Isaacson, Douglas R.; Robinson, John E.; Swenson, Harry N.; Denery, Dallas G.

doi:10.2514/6.2010-9292

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“…But, due to safety consideration, full automation in ATM is still a challenge. Instead, it was considered by realizing an automated merging with conflict free for a large portion of routine traffic at congested airport (Isaacson et al, 2010). Therefore, for modernization of current ATM system with high level of automation, the routine trajectory Degree Of Freedom (DOF) employed in solutions must be carefully chosen.…”

Section: Tactical Trajectory Controlmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conflict-free arrival and departure trajectory planning for parallel runway with advanced point-merge system

Liang

Delahaye

Maréchal

2018

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

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To cite this version:Man Liang, Daniel Delahaye, Pierre Maréchal. Conflict-free arrival and departure trajectory planning for parallel runway with advanced point-merge system. Transportation research. AbstractIn this paper, an efficient trajectory planning system is proposed to solve the integration of arrivals and departures on parallel runways with a novel route network system. Our first effort is made in designing an advanced Point Merge (PM) route network named Multi-Level Point Merge (ML-PM) to meet the requirements of parallel runway operations. Then, more efforts are paid on finding a complete and efficient framework capable of dynamically modelling the integration of arrival and departure trajectories on parallel runways, modelling the conflict detection and resolution in presence of curved trajectory and radius-to-fix merging process. After that, a suitable mathematical optimization formulation is built up. Receding Horizon Control (RHC) and Simulated Annealing (SA) algorithms are proposed to search the near-optimal solution for the large scale trajectories in routine dense operations. Taking Beijing Capital International Airport (BCIA) as a study case, the experimental results show that our system shows good performances on the management of arrivals and departures. It can automatically solve all the potential conflicts in presence of dense traffic flows. With its unique ML-PM route network, it can realize a shorter flying time and a near-Continuous Descent Approach (CDA) descent for arrival aircraft, an economical climbing for departure aircraft, an easier runway allocation together with trajectory control solutions. It shows a good and dynamic sequencing efficiency in Terminal Manoeuvring Area (TMA). In mixed ML-PM mode, under tested conditions, our proposed system can increase throughput at BCIA around 26%, compared with baseline. The methodology defined here could be easily applied to airports worldwide.

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Section: Tactical Trajectory Controlmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conflict-free arrival and departure trajectory planning for parallel runway with advanced point-merge system

Liang

Delahaye

Maréchal

2018

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

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“…Since the flight path of aircraft α is known, the arc length coordinate s α of the aircraft completely determines its physical (3-D) position for which the coordinate vector, in some coordinate system global for all aircraft, can be written as in form (4).…”

Section: Separation Minimamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To indicate an example of a mathematical condition partly successful at capturing this constraint in its "commonly accepted" intuitive sense, we resort to the notation of [Eq. (4)] and state that, over a time period t 1 ; t 2 , the total "severity density" of maneuvers by aircraft α can be restricted in the form…”

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Tactical Scheduling for Precision Air Traffic Operations: Past Research and Current Problems

Isaacson

Sadovsky

Davis

2014

Journal of Aerospace Information Systems

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“…The terminal metering points are typically arrival-procedure merge points where traffic flows converge, and are necessary to ensure that the arrival schedule maintains aircraft separation at these points between the terminal airspace boundary and runway threshold. As each aircraft reaches an airportspecific range or time, referred to as the 'freeze horizon,' the TMA-TM locks in a de-conflicted STA at each scheduling point [16,17]. The assigned STAs ensure no time conflicts exist with the preceding aircraft at the various scheduling points.…”

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NASA's ATM technology demonstration-1: Integrated Concept of arrival operations

Baxley¹,

Swenson²,

Prevôt³

et al. 2012

2012 IEEE/AIAA 31st Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC)

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This paper describes operations and procedures envisioned for NASA's Air Traffic Management (ATM) Technology Demonstration #1 (ATD-1). The ATD-1 Concept of Operations (ConOps) demonstration will integrate three NASA technologies to achieve high throughput, fuelefficient arrival operations into busy terminal airspace. They are Traffic Management Advisor with Terminal Metering (TMA-TM) for precise timebased schedules to the runway and points within the terminal area, Controller-Managed Spacing (CMS) decision support tools for terminal controllers to better manage aircraft delay using speed control, and Flight deck Interval Management (FIM) avionics and flight crew procedures to conduct airborne spacing operations. The ATD-1 concept provides deconflicted and efficient operations of multiple arrival streams of aircraft, passing through multiple merge points, from top-of-descent (TOD) to touchdown. It also enables aircraft to conduct Optimized Profile Descents (OPDs) from en route altitude to the runway, using primarily speed control to maintain separation and schedule. The ATD-1 project is currently addressing the challenges of integrating the three technologies, and implantation into an operational environment. Goals of the ATD-1 demonstration include increasing the throughput of high-density airports, reducing controller workload, increasing efficiency of arrival operations and the frequency of trajectory-based operations, and promoting aircraft ADS-B equipage.

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A Concept for Robust, High Density Terminal Air Traffic Operations

Cited by 39 publications

References 35 publications

Conflict-free arrival and departure trajectory planning for parallel runway with advanced point-merge system

Conflict-free arrival and departure trajectory planning for parallel runway with advanced point-merge system

Tactical Scheduling for Precision Air Traffic Operations: Past Research and Current Problems

NASA's ATM technology demonstration-1: Integrated Concept of arrival operations

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