Scheduling Landings Using Ant Algorithm within Two Separation Standards

According to the STAR Chart of Pudong Airport, this paper makes a study of approach sequencing in airport terminal area. In reality, air traffic controllers space two aircraft with radar separation before Final Approach, but minimum wake separation on Final Approach. On such practical consideration, the paper builds a model of arriving aircraft with target of minimizing total delays of aircraft. With a prototype implementation of arriving aircraft on realistic data for Pudong Airport during some one hour, MAX-MIN Ant System algorithm is presented to solve the sequencing problem. Then, comparing with the First-Come-First-Served (FCFS), both the total delays and the number of holding aircraft are decreased.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1061/41039(345)44
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2009 American Society of Civil Engineers.
• Corporate Authors:

  American Society of Civil Engineers

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• Authors:
  • Tian, Zhencai
  • Chen, Xuezhen
  • Zhao, Yifei
• Conference:
  • Second International Conference on Transportation Engineering
  • Location: Chengdu , China
  • Date: 2009-7-25 to 2009-7-27
• Publication Date: 2009-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 261-266
• Monograph Title: International Conference on Transportation Engineering 2009

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air traffic control; Airport terminals; Algorithms; Approach control; Landing; Scheduling
• Identifier Terms: Shanghai Pudong International Airport
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Operations and Traffic Management; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01529613
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780784410394
• Files: TRIS, ASCE
• Created Date: Nov 12 2013 1:41PM