New approach to the planning and control of air traffic in the terminal area

摘要

A new approach to the planning and control of the traffic in the terminal area is proposed which combines the path generation and conflict avoidance problems into one problem. ^The objective is to generate conflict-free paths for all aircraft in the terminal area in order to meet the given landing schedule at the runway. ^It is assumed that the given schedule guarantees the existence of such conflict-free paths; otherwise, the schedule needs to be revised accordingly. ^This paper presents the concept geometrically, and results in an algorithm which generates conflict-free paths for all aircraft simultaneously. ^(Author)