Abstract
This paper addresses a new method for describing the air traffic complexity of a given traffic situation. Air traffic complexity is defined as "how difficult" a given traffic situation is, in terms of the control activity required to resolve it, in response to an additional aircraft entering the airspace. For this, we describe an input-output framework, and present a "complexity map" that clearly provides the effective complexity for a given traffic situation. This complexity map can address airspace with an arbitrary number of aircraft. 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 relevant to dynamic airspace management.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages | 225-233 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| State | Published - 2007 |
| Event | 7th USA/Europe Air Traffic Management Research and Development Seminar, ATM 2007 - Barcelona, Spain Duration: Jul 2 2007 → Jul 5 2007 |
Other
| Other | 7th USA/Europe Air Traffic Management Research and Development Seminar, ATM 2007 |
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| Country/Territory | Spain |
| City | Barcelona |
| Period | 7/2/07 → 7/5/07 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Computer Science Applications
- Control and Systems Engineering
- Aerospace Engineering