Spatiotemporal Graph Indicators for Air Traffic Complexity Analysis

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

Airspace Complexity Measurement: an Air Traffic Control Simulation Analysis

This paper describes results of a dynamic density (DD) human-in-the-loop simulation and DD model development activity that was designed to examine the complexity measures. DD measures that were presented at the US/Europe ATM 2003 Seminar were used in the analysis. This study differed from the previous one in three aspects: first, the simulation included Reduced Vertical Separation Minima proced...

Airspace configuration using air traffic complexity metrics

Flow regulation is a critical process in air traffic management, ensuring that the incoming traffic does not exceed the ability of air traffic controllers to handle it safely and efficiently. Currently, the european Flow Management Positions (FMP) use flight counts and sector capacities to assess the traffic load and build predicted opening schemes. These schemes, made of predefined airspace co...

Information Complexity in Air Traffic Control Displays

Air traffic controllers typically use visual displays to interact with various automation systems. Automation tools are intended to reduce controller task load, but they may also create new tasks associated with acquiring, integrating, and utilizing information from displays. Consequently, the complexity of information displayed may reduce the efficiency and effectiveness of an automation syste...