Modeling Air Traffic Demand for a Real-Time Queuing Network Model of the National Airspace System

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Wanke ◽  
Christine Taylor ◽  
Tudor Masek ◽  
Sandip Roy ◽  
Yan Wan
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Network Model ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Queuing Network ◽  
National Airspace System ◽  
Traffic Demand

Symposium: Decision Making in Free Flight

1996 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 96-97
Author(s):  
Kip Smith ◽  
Peter Hancock ◽  
Stephen Scallen
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Decision Aids ◽  
Federal Aviation Administration ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
National Airspace System ◽  
Web Page ◽  
Free Flight ◽  
Innovative Concept

In its web-page introduction to free flight, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) describes free flight as “an innovative concept to improve the efficiency of the National Airspace System [in which] pilots operating under instrument flight rules will be able to select the aircraft's course, speed, and altitude in real time” (FAA, 1996). This symposium presents the results of experimental and theoretic investigations on (1) the ability of pilots and air traffic managers to master the demands of free flight and (2) the design of technology and decision aids tailored to need those demands.

scholarly journals Analysis of Delay Characteristics of European Air Traffic through a Data-Driven Airport-Centric Queuing Network Model

2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Baris Baspinar ◽  
N. Kemal Ure ◽  
Emre Koyuncu ◽  
Gokhan Inalhan
Keyword(s):  
Network Model ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Queuing Network

Workload-Based Capacity for Air Traffic Management

2015 ◽  
Vol 2501 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth S. Lindsay
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Management ◽  
System Development ◽  
Air Traffic Management ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Time On Task ◽  
National Airspace System ◽  
Traffic Demand ◽  
Workload Capacity ◽  
Convective Weather ◽  
Parameter Values

The charter of FAA is to promote the safe, orderly, and expeditious use of the National Airspace System (NAS). To ensure that traffic flow is safe and efficient, FAA needs to know the expected traffic demand on the sector and the sector's capacity to accommodate that demand. When sector capacity is inadequate to meet the demand, congestion occurs. To ensure that safety is not compromised, FAA often takes action to reduce demand or increase capacity to avoid congestion. The MITRE Corporation's Center for Advanced Aviation System Development developed a time-on-task workload model to assess capacity and congestion in en route NAS sectors. A metric was developed and used along with the workload generated by the model and a workload threshold to estimate sector capacity. The metric, as constructed, enabled equitable comparison of capacity of different sectors, regardless of size. A field and lab evaluation of the workload model was used to quantify the model's task coverage and to calibrate its parameter values. The workload model was used to generate workload, capacity, and congestion profiles for selected en route sectors during good weather and during convective weather. The data used to generate the profiles can be used for various air traffic management applications.

Potential Traffic Demand in the London Area

1965 ◽  
Vol 69 (652) ◽  
pp. 211-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. H. Watson
Keyword(s):  
Air Traffic ◽  
Traffic Demand ◽  
The Third ◽  
Air Space

The June 1963 Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on the Third London Airport concluded that a third London Airport would be required in the early 1970's, and possibly a fourth soon after 1980. It also brought out that because of the large amounts of air space required for the sequencing areas and approach paths of each airport, and because of limitations imposed by the positioning of the main air traffic routeings, the choice of possible sites within reasonable distance of Central London for the third airport was severely restricted. In a postscript to the Report, it was recognised that after the third airport has taken over a further block of air space, the difficulty of siting a fourth airport would be even more severe.

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