DISTRIBUTED AND CENTRALIZED CONFLICT MANAGEMENT UNDER TRAFFIC FLOW MANAGEMENT CONSTRAINTS

Current air transportation in the United States relies on a system born half a century ago. While demand for air travel has kept increasing over the years, technologies at the heart of the National Airspace system (NAS) have not been able to follow an adequate evolution. For instance, computers used to centralize flight data in airspace sectors run a software developed in 1972. Safety, as well as certification and portability issues arise as major obstacles for the improvement of the system. The NAS is a structure that has never been designed, but has rather evolved over time. This has many drawbacks, mainly due to a lack of integration and engineering leading to many inefficiencies and losses of performance. To improve the operations, understanding of this complex needs to be built up to a certain level. This work presents research done on Air Traffic Management at the level of the en-route sector.

• Corporate Authors:

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Department of Civil Engineering, 77 Massachusetts Avenue
  Cambridge, MA  United States  02139
• Authors:
  • Feron, E
• Publication Date: 2003-2-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 112 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air traffic control; Air transportation; Aviation safety; Certification; Conflict management; Improvements; Technology assessment; Traffic flow
• Identifier Terms: National Airspace System
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Education and Training; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00943921
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 6 2003 12:00AM