Strategies to Mitigate Off-Nominal Events in Super Dense Operations

Abstract

Given the concept of operations defining the nominal conditions for Super Dense Operations (SDO) in the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen), we investigate strategies to mitigate off-nominal events that disrupt SDO. We are interested in short-duration off-nominal events in which SDO is temporarily interrupted, and through mitigation strategies, the system can eventually return to nominal SDO conditions. In this paper, we study a range of off-nominal events that can be mitigated through algorithmic traffic flow management approaches. Abbreviations 4DT 4

Modeling off-nominal events and mitigation strategies for Super Density Operations

“…In prior research [4,5], we conducted a Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) [6] for SDO to identify potential failure modes and their effects, their severity ranking, their frequency of occurrence, and the actions needed to mitigate the effects of the failure modes. This paper extends our previous work and introduces models of off-nominal events that define the mathematical representations for selected failure modes.…”