Title :
Advanced national airspace traffic flow management simulation experiments and vlidation
Author :
Hunter, George ; Boisvert, B. ; Ramamoorthy, Kris
Author_Institution :
Sensis Corp., Campbell
Abstract :
Traffic flow management in the National Airspace is an important problem in our air transportation system. We have developed ProbTFM, a traffic flow management evaluation platform and algorithmic solution. ProbTFM works with existing traffic flow management tools and provides probabilistic data modeling and decision making. ProbTFM forecasts airport and airspace capacity and demand; and airport, airspace, and route congestion. ProbTFM creates a list of high congestion, "critical" flights and recommends delays or reroutes for specific flights. ProbTFM can be used as an evaluation platform for advanced traffic flow management concepts, and to model today\´s National Airspace System. In this paper we report on validation results and how ProbTFM can be used to understand operational tradeoffs and inform policy decisions.
Keywords :
air traffic; decision making; decision theory; forecasting theory; probability; simulation; transportation; National Airspace System; ProbTFM traffic flow management simulation experiment; air transportation system; airport capacity forecasting; airspace capacity forecasting; policy decision making; probabilistic data modeling; route congestion; Aerodynamics; Air transportation; Aircraft; Airports; Decision making; Equations; Stochastic processes; Traffic control; Uncertainty; Weather forecasting;
Conference_Titel :
Simulation Conference, 2007 Winter
Conference_Location :
Washington, DC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1306-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1306-5
DOI :
10.1109/WSC.2007.4419730
