Air traffic control (ATC) mandated, aircraft separations over the oceans impose a limitation on traffic capacity for a given corridor, given the projected traffic growth over the Western Atlantic Track Routing System (WATRS). The separations result from a lack of acceptable situational awareness over oceans where radar position updates are not available. This study considers the use of Automatic Dependent Surveillance (ADS) data transmitted over a commercial satellite communications system as an approach to provide ATC with the needed situational awareness and thusly allow for reduced aircraft separations. This study uses Federal Aviation Administration data from a single day for the WATRS corridor to analyze traffic loading to be used as a benchmark against which to compare several approaches for coordinating data transmissions from the aircraft to the satellites.


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    Title :

    Oceanic Situational Awareness Over the Western Atlantic Track Routing System


    Contributors:
    B. Welch (author) / I. Greenfeld (author)

    Publication date :

    2005


    Size :

    32 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English