A short term air traffic flow control model using optimal control technique
PENHOUET ; THOMAS ; FONDACCI
Type de document
ARTICLE DE PERIODIQUE
Langue
anglais
Auteur
PENHOUET ; THOMAS ; FONDACCI
Résumé / Abstract
In order to prevent airspace congestion in Europe, measures are carried out during different phases, which are based on long term or medium term traffic prediction. However these measures may be inaccurate and then fail in the prevention of the sectors' overload due to disturbances which may occur in real-time. To our knowledge, no air traffic flow model is able to solve this problem entirely. This paper presents a model for short term control of en route sector load by using dynamic programming. The goal of the developed model is to protect an airspace volume from saturation, while acting in a cost-efficient way on traffic flows 20 to 60 minutes before a potential overload. Actions are taken on air traffic flows of different origin-destination, speed and route are used as control variables. The complexity of the model is then discussed.
