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This study presents a procedure for evaluating various target separation standards for a parallel-lane flow corridor considering multiple performance measures, including air traffic operations, corridor capacity, safety and environmental impacts. Simulation models were established using the User Manual for the Base of Aircraft Data published by EUROCONTROL. A self-separation flow corridor segment simulation model with two parallel lanes were used to evaluate the operational and environmental impacts of various target separation standards for consecutive aircraft in the flow corridor. For a particular target separation standard, the operational impact was measured using the total control delay to the aircraft in the corridor. The corridor capacity was calculated as the average aircraft throughput per hour. The safety impact was measured using the corridor breakout rate. The aircraft CO₂ emissions were considered as the environmental impact measurement. The technique for order of preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) entropy evaluation method was then used to rank the performances of various target separations considering multiple performance measures. It was found that combining multiple objectives in decision making one may obtain different results with regard to the optimum target separation standard. The research results can be used by airspace designers to develop operational procedures and rules for flow corridor given geometric design characteristics, self-separation maneuvers and initial traffic flow conditions. The framework implemented in the study can also be used to estimate the impacts of other air traffic projects considering multi-objective evaluation.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AV060 Standing Committee on Airfield and Airspace Capacity and Delay.

01618707

17-02482

English

14p

2017

Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; References; Tables

Air routes; Air traffic; Aircraft separation; Airside operations; Aviation safety; Entropy (Statistical mechanics); Environmental impacts; Evaluation and assessment; Flight delays; Pollutants; Simulation; Traffic flow

Aviation; Environment; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2017 Paper #17-02482

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Dec 8 2016 10:56AM