Design of a terminal area arrival scheduler depends on the interrelationship between throughput, delay and controller intervention. The main contribution of this paper is an analysis of the above interdependence for several stochastic behaviors of expected system performance distributions in the aircraft s time of arrival at the meter fix and runway. Results of this analysis serve to guide the scheduler design choices for key control variables. Two types of variables are analyzed, separation buffers and terminal delay margins. The choice for these decision variables was tested using sensitivity analysis. Analysis suggests that it is best to set the separation buffer at the meter fix to its minimum and adjust the runway buffer to attain the desired system performance. Delay margin was found to have the least effect. These results help characterize the variables most influential in the scheduling operations of terminal area arrivals.


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    Title :

    Design Considerations for a New Terminal Area Arrival Scheduler


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    10th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conference ; 2010 ; Fort Worth, TX, United States


    Publication date :

    2010-09-13


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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