The research community has been actively engaged in developing integrated arrival-departure and surface (IADS) scheduling systems at airports for the past several years. Metrosim is targeted at the solution to a full IADS problem at a Metroplex, including all surface as well as Metroplex airspace constraints and dependencies within the Metroplex. The goal of this research is to optimize the sequencing, runway assignment, and route allocation to maximize throughput, increase safety, and minimize the environmental footprint Additionally, to be maximally useful to the Air Traffic Management (ATM) community, such systems need to compute their solution in real time (in a few minutes) to provide decision support for controllers. A practical solution to such a large and complex problem has been hitherto elusive, but this paper presents a promising approach with an initial feasibility study using data from the New York Metroplex (N90). The results show that the system outlined herein could potentially be a practical solution to this important problem.
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