Design for the future in terminal air traffic control

Autor: H. C. Burns, E. N. Hooton, M. A. Warskow
Rok vydání: 1969
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Zdroj: Journal of Aircraft. 6:360-366
ISSN: 1533-3868
0021-8669
DOI: 10.2514/3.44065
Popis: How does one forecast the overloading of airspace and airport facilities? This paper describes the application of techniques and methodologies useful for such forecasts. These techniques can be used to: 1. Provide a quantitative evaluation of any change in traffic handling capability, resulting from modifications to the air route structure in the terminal area. The change would be indicated by a reduction or increase in the complexity of air traffic control. This may be useful in sectorization design. 2. Provide a detailed understanding of arrival and departure paths into all IFR airports in the region, and reveal interairport conflicts and the number of hours per year such conflicts will exist. 3. Determine the capacities, and the operating rates and delays, occurring at each airport in the airspace, due to overloading. 4. Indicate the benefit of a rules change, such as in lateral spacing. 5. Form a basis for flow control application. 6. Pinpoint the bottleneck points in the terminal area ATC system.
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