Air traffic complexity: An input-output approach

Keumjin Lee; Eric Feron; Amy Pritchett

doi:10.1109/ACC.2007.4282989

Air traffic complexity: An input-output approach

Keumjin Lee, Eric Feron, Amy Pritchett

Aerospace Engineering

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Abstract

There has been much effort to increase airspace capacity and one of the fundamental research problems is to measure the traffic complexity inside sectors. This paper proposes a new method for describing the air traffic complexity of a given traffic situation. We view the airspace as a closedloop input-output system and define air traffic complexity as "how difficult" a given traffic situation is, in terms of the control activity required to resolve it, in response to a change in "reference signal", that is the presence of a new aircraft entering the airspace. We present a "complexity map" that offers a graphical view of the complexity for a given traffic situation. We also discuss how to extract a scalar measure of air traffic complexity from the complexity map. We illustrate our methodology with a few examples.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2007 American Control Conference, ACC
Pages	474-479
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ACC.2007.4282989
State	Published - 2007
Event	2007 American Control Conference, ACC - New York, NY, United States Duration: Jul 9 2007 → Jul 13 2007

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Name	Proceedings of the American Control Conference
ISSN (Print)	0743-1619

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Other	2007 American Control Conference, ACC
Country/Territory	United States
City	New York, NY
Period	7/9/07 → 7/13/07

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Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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