Development of a database for strategic route planning considering noise protection areas and meteorological conditions

The continuously growing air traffic requires a change in current air traffic procedures. One of the main goals is to preserve or even improve the current traffic safety level. Environmental and economic aspects are not to be ignored and these factors are enabled through an efficient and flexible design of flight trajectories. A concept for a dynamic flight path optimization by means of spatial and timely changing variables has been developed. The focus has been laid on meteorological boundary conditions and on conditions regarding noise protection. The goals in this paper are (1) the calculation of an optimized route and (2) minimization of detours.