Advanced air traffic management systems such as the Center/TRACON Automation System (CTAS) should yield a wide range of benefits, including reduced aircraft delays and controller workload. To determine the traffic-flow benefits achievable from future terminal airspace automation, live radar information was used to perform an analysis of current aircraft landing rates and separations at the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. Separation statistics that result when controllers balance complex control procedural constraints in order to maintain high landing rates are presented. In addition, the analysis estimates the potential for airport capacity improvements by determining the unused landing opportunities that occur during rush traffic periods. Results suggest a large potential for improving the accuracy and consistency of spacing between arrivals on final approach, and they support earlier simulation findings that improved air traffic management would increase capacity and reduce delays.
Analysis of Landing Rates and Separations at the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport
1996
74 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Transportation Safety , Air Transportation , Air traffic control , Air traffic controllers (Personnel) , Aircraft approach spacing , Aircraft landing , Airports , Approach control , Flight management systems , Instrument approach , Landing radar , Runways , Airspace , Area navigation , Collision avoidance , Estimates , Flight paths , Workloads (Psychophysiology)