A two-level hierarchical framework for air traffic flow management

A Market for Air Traffic Flow Management

The two somewhat conflicting requirements of efficiency and fairness make ATFM an unsatisfactorily solved problem, despite its overwhelming importance. In this paper, we present an economics motivated solution that is based on the notion of a free market. Our contention is that in fact the airlines themselves are the best judge of how to achieve efficiency and our market-based solution gives th...

Graph Coloring for Air Traffic Flow Management

The aim of Air Traffic Flow Management (ATFM) is to enhance the capacity of the airspace while satisfying Air Traffic Control constraints and airlines requests to optimize their operating costs. This paper presents a design of a new route network that tries to optimize these criteria. The basic idea is to consider direct routes only and to vertically separate intersecting flows of aircrafts by ...

Graph Coloring for Air Traffic Flow Management

A Framework for Stochastic Air Traffic Flow Modeling and Analysis

A framework for stochastic traffic flow modeling over the U. S. National airspace based on queuing network models is advanced. The proposed framework allows the inclusion of a wide variety of trajectory uncertainties such as delays due to weather deviation, air traffic control actions, en route wind, aircraft performance, navigation system precision and flight control. En route queuing networks...

A Framework for Resource Management in Air Traffic Systems

In this paper, we present a software framework for the air traffic system that includes and integrates several architectural components devoted to the dynamic allocation, exchange and self-adaptation of resources. Some of these components, namely the allocation and the adaptation of resources, are managed at a centralized level by a single authority, whereas the resource exchange component is e...