Title :
Simulating Civilian and U.S. Military Use of European Airspace
Author :
Alshtein, Alex ; Cochrane, Theodore ; Connolly, Kelly ; DeArmon, James ; Jaranson, Kyle ; McNeely, Mathew ; Ostwald, Paul ; Stewart, Timothy ; Tran, Michael
Author_Institution :
MITRE Corp., McLean, VA
Abstract :
A request for modeling of the European air traffic environment was addressed using an existing playback and analysis capability. Previously used only to represent United States (US) airspace, the tool was accoutered to handle civilian air traffic over Europe and part of southwest Asia, as well as U.S. military flights pursuing specific tactical missions. Analysts and developers searched the World Wide Web and were able to identify and retrieve several key elements necessary for a simulation: a source for commercial traffic routes, traffic growth factors for future years, the upper wind field, and formulae for discerning localized traffic congestion. The completed simulation infrastructure was used to answer questions regarding purchasing advanced avionic equipment for the U.S. military aircraft fleet. Full details addressing those questions can be found in (Wigfield, 2006)
Keywords :
aerospace simulation; air traffic; military aircraft; European air traffic environment; European airspace; U.S. military aircraft fleet; U.S. military flights; United States airspace; avionic equipment; civilian air traffic; commercial traffic routes; localized traffic congestion; traffic growth factors; upper wind field; Aerospace electronics; Aerospace simulation; Costs; Delay; Military computing; Military standards; Predictive models; Traffic control; Web sites; Wind;
Conference_Titel :
25th Digital Avionics Systems Conference, 2006 IEEE/AIAA
Conference_Location :
Portland, OR
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0377-4
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0378-2
DOI :
10.1109/DASC.2006.313668
