Department of Transportation Air Traffic Control Advisory Committee, 1968-1969

The Department of Transportation Air Traffic Control Advisory Committee concentrated on control of aircraft through the airspace, from takeoff to landing. Emphasis was placed on major terminal areas and on the denser portions of the enroute airspace where the need for efficient use of scarce resources (principally runways and terminal airspace) and the danger of mid-air collisions make sophisticated air traffic control mandatory if safety is to be assured without sacrifice of capacity. Airports were included in the study insofar as they strongly interact with air traffic control, and then, primarily, the committee's concern was with efficient use of runways. No work was done on airport access. Considerable effort was placed on the subject of noise reduction which may be critical to community acceptance of high-capacity airports.     

Airports: an integral part of the air traffic management system

The airports system, as a whole, forms a continuum with the airspace. So, the airports must be considered as an integral part of the Air Traffic Management System, and due to the current air traffic growth, their evolution requires special attention. This is the reason why the European Commission is conducting an airport related research programme.     

Air route network optimization in fragmented airspace based on cellular automata

Air route network optimization,one of the essential parts of the airspace planning,is an effective way to optimize airspace resources,increase airspace capacity,and alleviate air traffic con gestion.However,little has been done on the optimization of air route network in the fragmented airspace caused by prohibited,restricted,and dangerous areas (PRDs).In this paper,an air route network optimization model is developed with the total operational cost as the objective function while airspace restriction,air route network capacity,and non-straight-line factors (NSLF) are taken as major constraints.A square grid cellular space,Moore neighbors,a fixed boundary,together with a set of rules for solving the route network optimization model are designed based on cellular automata.The empirical traffic of airports with the largest traffic volume in each of the 9 flight information regions in mainland China is collected as the origin-destination (OD) air port pair demands.Based on traffic patterns,the model generates 35 air routes which successfully avoids 144 PRDs.Compared with the current air route network structure,the number of nodes decreases by 41.67％,while the total length of flight segments and air routes drop by 32.03％ and 5.82％ respectively.The NSLF decreases by 5.82％ with changes in the total length of the air route network.More importantly,the total operational cost of the whole network decreases by 6.22％.The computational results show the potential benefits of the model and the advantage of the algorithm.Optimization of air route network can significantly reduce operational cost while ensuring operation safety.     

基于EVENT模型的垂直间隔碰撞风险研究

空中交通流量逐年快速增长,迫切需要提高空域容量和空域利用率,缩小间隔标准可以快速有效地缓解流量增长和减少延误,因此必须研究不同间隔标准下的碰撞风险,从而确定缩小间隔标准的安全性。建立了基于EVENT的垂直碰撞风险模型,推导出了相应的计算方法;并运用该模型分析了垂直间隔对碰撞风险的影响。结果证明,高空空域缩小垂直间隔标准后的碰撞风险满足安全目标等级的要求,而且随着流量的增长,缩小垂直间隔标准后的碰撞风险在最近15年内保持稳定的安全水平。     

A data-driven approach to modeling high-density terminal areas: A scenario analysis of the new Beijing,China airspace

Airports are being developed and expanded rapidly in China to accommodate and pro-mote a growing aviation market. The future Beijing Daxing International Airport (DAX) will serve as the central airport of the JingJinJi megaregion, knitting the Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei regions together. DAX will be a busy airport from its inception, relieving congestion and accommodating growth from Beijing Capital International Airport (PEK), currently the second busiest airport in the world in passengers moved. We aim to model terminal airspace designs and possible conflicts in the future Beijing Multi-Airport System (MAS). We investigate standard arrival procedures and mathematically model current and future arrival trajectories into PEK and DAX by collecting large quantities of publicly available track data from historical arrivals operating within the Beijing terminal airspace. We find that (1) trajectory models constructed from real data capture aberrations and deviations from standard arrival procedures, validating the need to incorporate data on histor-ical trajectories with standard procedures when evaluating the airspace and (2) given all existing constraints, DAX may be restricted to using north and east arrival flows, constraining the capacity required to handle the increases in air traffic demand to Beijing. The results indicate that the termi-nal airspace above Beijing, and the future JingJinJi region, requires careful consideration if the full capacity benefits of the two major airports are to be realized.     

基于进离场流量和冲突发生位置的扇区规划

随着空中交通流量的日渐增大，空域结构及交通流分布的不合理性导致空中交通管制与飞行安全存在着一定的隐患。鉴于机场进近区是限制空域运行能力的主要瓶颈，针对如何提高空域资源利用率从而提升空域容量进行了进近区扇区规划，提出了考虑飞行流量、冲突发生的位置以及空域运行情况等因素建立的扇区容量均衡模型，利用霍夫曼编码原理进一步找到了扇区边界，并验证了方法的科学性和合理性。     

Empirical analysis of airport network and critical airports

Air transport network, or airport network, is a complex network involving numerous airports. Effective management of the air transport system requires an in-depth understanding of the roles of airports in the network. Whereas knowledge on air transport network properties has been improved greatly, methods to find critical airports in the network are still lacking. In this paper, we present methods to investigate network properties and to identify critical airports in the network. A novel network model is proposed with airports as nodes and the correlations between traffic flow of airports as edges. Spectral clustering algorithm is developed to classify airports. Spatial distribution characteristics and intraclass correlation of different categories of airports are carefully analyzed. The analyses based on the fluctuation trend of distance-correlation and power spectrum of time series are performed to examine the self-organized criticality of the network. The results indicate that there is one category of airports which dominates the self-organized critical state of the network. Six airports in this category are found to be the most important ones in the Chinese air transport network. The flights delay occurred in these six airports can propagate to the other airports, having huge impact on the operation characteristics of the entire network. The methods proposed here taking traffic dynamics into account are capable of identifying critical airports in the whole air transport network.     

民用机场及附近空域空中交通流量优化

针对民航客运需求快速增长所带来的航班延误和空域拥塞问题,提出一种优化民用机场及附近空域空中交通流量的方法。通过空中交通走廊容量评估方法,对经典优化模型进行了发展和改进,建立起综合性优化模型;将机场和附近空域视为一个整体系统,根据交通需求和容量的相互关系动态调整航班流量和机场起降容量;在优化计算时,提出一种兼顾效率和准确性的新型优化算法。通过算例对所述优化方法进行了验证,该方法可以为空中交通管制人员进行流量优化分配提供参考。     

基于功能脆弱性的空中交通相依网络流量分配

依据空中交通管理与航班运行规则,采用复杂网络理论构建由机场、航路与管制扇区组成的相依网络模型,建立不同扰动策略的影响规则,提出以网络流量熵和交通流损失比变化率为指标识别网络功能脆弱性。并以网络总流量熵最小为目标,建立基于改进遗传算法的网络流量协调分配策略,以降低空中交通相依网络的脆弱性。以民航华北地区空域为原型,发现了其相依网络脆弱性表现规律和脆弱源,采用遗传算法求解网络流量分配方案,优化结果降低了网络总熵值和功能脆弱性,其中机场网络流量分配后效果最为显著,验证了方法的有效性,研究结果可为空中流量管理决策提供一定的理论支撑。     

基于动态空域管理的安全性研究

当前静态的空域结构已很难适应不断变化的流量对空域的使用需求,动态空域管理概念为解决这一问题提供了一个可行的解决方案。扇区结构优化调整作为动态空域管理的核心内容在解决空域资源使用紧张问题的同时,也给当前管制工作安全带来了挑战。主要从管制员工作负荷、空域结构调整可能带来的管制操作困难及空域划分触发机制3个方面来探讨研究动态空域管理相关安全性问题。     

Comparison of alternative route selection strategies based on simulation optimization

Air traffic flow management (ATFM) is a collaborative process between the airspace provider and the airspace users. The result of the collaboration should be an outcome that maxi-mizes the utility of the system without excessively penalizing any of the agents. This paper develops a discrete-event simulation model which consists of aggregate departure/arrival airports, flight routes, and sectors for evaluating the alternative collaborative route selection strategy. Given the different perspectives from air traffic control center (ACC) and airlines, eight performance-metrics and five alternative route selection strategies represent the past, current and proposed air traffic flow management operations that were evaluated. The Monte Carlo method combined with the Optimal Computing Budget Allocation (OCBA) simulation optimization technique is employed to assess the performance of different strategies. A case study of the upper air routes in central and southern China shows that the proposed model can be readily implemented to simulate different kinds of air traffic flow management strategies and predict the effect of changes on the airspace sys-tem. It also shows that the proposed alternative collaborative route selection strategy is an effective way in alleviating the en-route traffic congestion.     

突发事件下大规模空中交通流量管理的组合优化模型

为了解决危险天气和军航活动对管制运行的影响，使用动态网络流方法对突发事件下短期空中交通流量调度问题展开研究。首先，结合中国民航管制的特点，分析了突发事件对流量管理的影响。同时，根据航路航线网络及其高度层的特点，给出了网络和高度层的数学描述，并根据机型将航空器分成大、中和小3种交通流，介绍了使用多品种流描述3种机型的必要性；其次，根据网络拥挤程度随时间和流量变化的特点、危险天气随机变化的特点、空中等待和地面等待费用差异的特点构建了3个优化目标，考虑机场容量、扇区容量、航班连续性和扇区连续性约束建立了多目标优化模型；再次，针对军航活动时需要协调空域的特点，多品种流模型求解时间复杂度高，不能适应短期流量管理的缺陷，改进了逐步宽容约束法，设计了一种阶段式求解的近似算法；最后，以西南空管局管制的空域为例，利用实际流量数据，设计了3个场景进行仿真。结果表明，所提模型和算法能有效求解突发事件下的短期流量调度问题，算法效率比起传统算法在大流量下更具优势。     

Safety assessment of approximate segregated parallel operation on closely spaced parallel runways

With the continuous growth of air traffic flow, some airports in China or other countries begin to construct Closely Spaced Parallel Runways (CSPR) to meet the capacity requirement of civil aviation. In this paper, the simulation and calculation method of flight trajectory is developed, as well as the collision risk calculation method and wake vortex encounter risk calculation method. New methods for departure and go-around procedures are proposed to achieve approximate segregated parallel operation in an attempt to obtain approximately the same results on closely spaced parallel runways as on widely spaced parallel runways. By comparing with the independent parallel departure and segregated parallel operation in ICAO Doc. 9643, it is found that the lateral separation between aircraft in this proposal is not less than the separations in the other two cases. Based on the simulation calculation of flight trajectories under different conditions, the probabilities of collision conflict and encountering wake vortex are lower than those in current operation plan. The proposed plan has no special requirements in pilot operation, control command procedures, airport facilities, or meteorological observation and prediction, so it is convenient to promote and implement at the airports with closely spaced parallel runways.     

基于Agent模型的机场网络延误预测

准确可靠的机场网络航班延误预测是科学认知空中交通运行态势,动态精准实施国家空域系统容流协同调配策略的重要依据。提出了基于Agent的机场网络延误模型,表征机场网络系统中各元素及子系统间的交互作用下的延误特征涌现。针对机场节点动态容量、预计起飞时间、最小飞行与周转时间等Agent模型中的关键参数,适应性选用了贝叶斯估计、模糊k近邻等数据挖掘方法建立参数模型,并采用2015—2017年全美历史航班和气象数据进行训练学习。为综合评价模型性能及泛化能力,选取全美2018年3个不同延误程度的典型日进行测试。实验结果表明,在全美34个核心机场组成的网络中,各节点在4小时预测区间内延误最大误差不过27.9 min,其中约80%的节点误差小于5 min,验证了所提延误预测模型在时空范围内的准确性和稳健性特征。另外,通过与其他模型对比,展示了本模型优良的延误预测性能。     

基于地面等待策略的航班时刻规划方法

地面等待是空中交通管理中普遍应用的一种方法。根据机场实际容量的约束,从地面等待策略的思想提出了航班时刻规划专家系统,即通过修改航班时刻表中高峰时段的航班,以达到平滑交通流量的目的。最后根据全国航班时刻表,选择了10个主要的繁忙机场进行了仿真计算,验证了方法的实用性。     

空中交通流量管理中的多元受限地面等待策略问题研究

在单机场受限地面等待策略问题的基础上,研究了确定容量条件下的多元受限地面等待策略问题,建立了数学模型,提出了一个启发式和专家系统相结合的流量管理新算法。通过对广州区域空中交通流量的仿真计算,验证了该算法实际应用的可行性。     

基于目视间隔条件下的碰撞风险分析

为研究目视间隔条件下进近过程中前后两飞机的碰撞风险问题,通过Reich碰撞模型和碰撞风险模型,引入目视误差作为影响因素之一,建立基于目视间隔条件下的风险评估模型.从纵向、横向、垂向三个维度分析前后两飞机碰撞的概率,求得目视条件下进近两机碰撞的概率,以此作为风险分析的结果.计算结果表明,利用模型计算出的碰撞风险符合国际民航组织规定的航空器空中碰撞概率规定值.故而可证明,目视间隔和目视进近可作为一种安全的空中交通管制运行模式缩小安全间距,提高空域利用率,增加飞行流量.     

TBO模式下终端区进场交通流优化模型与仿真分析

持续增长的交通需求量和日趋饱和的可用空域资源促使未来空中交通管理向基于航迹运行（TBO）的精细化管理模式转变。在TBO概念的基础上，依据目前繁忙机场终端区常见进场航线结构，提出了对应TBO模式下的截点直飞方式与融合点方式进场交通流优化模型，并以法国戴高乐机场终端区为例，构建了仿真运行环境。基于实际飞行计划与雷达记录轨迹模拟生成了航空器四维航迹，而后运用上述2种模型对进场交通流进行了优化，根据仿真结果对特定交通流参数展开了对比分析。研究结果表明，模型可通过航迹选择、时隙分配、顺序交换及动态间隔等方式有效化解终端区内潜在的航空器冲突并保持交通流安全高效运行，同时在一定程度上揭示了TBO模式下交通流的部分运行特性，为以四维航迹为核心的未来空中交通管理策略提供了理论支持。     

机场终端区跑道配置优化及容流调配模型研究

大型繁忙机场交通需求的持续增长导致的飞行流量与保障能力、机场容量之间的矛盾日益突出。为了充分利用跑道系统资源,合理配置跑道运行容量,优化飞行流,建立非线性0-1整数规划模型解决以下两个问题:确定跑道配置优化序列,匹配进离场飞机流。模型综合考虑机场交通流、跑道配置转换容量折损、跑道容量包络线等约束,以优化区间内航班总延误最小为目标,用LINGO建模求解,使用实际运行数据验证模型的有效性。结果表明,模型实现了跑道资源的优化利用,降低了航班延误。     

基于速度分布的纵向碰撞危险REICH模型初步研究

随着空中交通流量的快速增长,迫切需要缩小间隔标准,提高空域容量和减少航班延误。针对纵向间隔,为计算飞机间的纵向碰撞率提供了一种新方法。首先,研究了飞机速度分布情况,建立了纵向碰撞概率模型;然后,以概率论为工具,根据纵向碰撞概率和REICH模型,建立了纵向碰撞危险模型,推导出了计算纵向碰撞率的方法;并利用概率论中的3 s法则,分析了初始距离、纵向碰撞概率、飞行时间以及飞机速度均方差等对纵向碰撞率的影响;最后,通过仿真算例和分析讨论得出130 km的纵向间隔安全可行,可为确定航路飞行过程中飞机间纵向间隔提供参考。