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Air traffic sector configuration change frequency
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Chatterji, Gano Broto Drew, Michael |
| Copyright Year | 2009 |
| Description | Several techniques for partitioning airspace have been developed in the literature. The question of whether a region of airspace created by such methods can be used with other days of traffic, and the number of times a different partition is needed during the day is examined in this paper. Both these aspects are examined for the Fort Worth Center airspace sectors. A Mixed Integer Linear Programming method is used with actual air traffic data of ten high-volume low-weather-delay days for creating sectors. Nine solutions were obtained for each two-hour period of the day by partitioning the center airspace into two through 18 sectors in steps of two sectors. Actual track-data were played back with the generated partitions for creating histograms of the traffic-counts. The best partition for each two-hour period was then identified based on the nine traffic-count distributions. Numbers of sectors in such partitions were analyzed to determine the number of times a different configuration is needed during the day. One to three partitions were selected for the 24-hour period, and traffic data from ten days were played back to test if the traffic-counts stayed below the threshold values associated with these partitions. Results show that these partitions are robust and can be used for longer durations than they were designed for |
| File Size | 207330 |
| Page Count | 24 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20100024307 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t7hq8xh2h |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2009-10-13 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Air Transportation And Safety Airspace Histograms Linear Programming Regions Air Traffic Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Presentation |
