Feasibility and availability of pairing departures from closely spaced parallel runways for wake avoidance

Author

Lunsford, Clark R.

Author_Institution

MITRE Corp., McLean, VA, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

13-15 May 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

10

Abstract

Air traffic is expected to increase more than 70 percent by the year 2025. A major challenge for supporting this type of growth is the arrival and departure capacity at major airports. There are many initiatives being developed to address the arrival capacity issue at these airports, but very few are designed to enable a corresponding increase in the departure capacity. As a part of The MITRE Corporation´s Center for Advanced Aviation System Development (CAASD) research program, a concept that could increase the departure capacity at 14 of the 35 busiest U.S. airports is being investigated.

Keywords

air traffic control; airports; Center for Advanced Aviation System Development; MITRE Corporation; U.S. airports; air traffic; arrival capacity; departure capacity; pairing departures; parallel runways; wake avoidance; Air traffic control; Aircraft navigation; Airports; Delay effects; FAA; Instruments; Protection; Surveillance; Wind forecasting; Wind speed;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Integrated Communications, Navigation and Surveillance Conference, 2009. ICNS '09.

Conference_Location

Arlington, VA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4733-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4734-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICNSURV.2009.5172833

Filename

5172833