The efficient design of departure and arrival routes in the airspace surrounding airports, called the terminal maneuvering area, is crucial for increasing the capacity of such areas, thus alleviating congestion around airports caused by worldwide air traffic growth. In this paper, an efficient method of designing departure and arrival routes in the terminal maneuvering area is proposed, taking into account the configuration of the airport and the nearby environment, as well as related operational constraints, such as obstacle avoidance and route separation. Each route is modeled in three dimensions, and it consists of two components: a curve in the horizontal plane, and a cone in the vertical plane. A branch-and-bound-based approach is developed, for which the branching strategies are tailored to how the obstacles are avoided. Routes are generated sequentially, and each route is initially built in isolation. If the route is found to be in conflict with previously generated routes, it is perturbed locally around the conflict zones. Numerical tests, performed on artificially generated problems and the terminal maneuvering area of Paris's Charles de Gaulle Airport, demonstrate that the proposed method is efficient and could be embedded in a decision-aid tool for procedure design.
Optimization-Based Design of Departure and Arrival Routes in Terminal Maneuvering Area
2017
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
Optimization-Based Design of Departure and Arrival Routes in Terminal Maneuvering Area
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