An airspace-planning and collaborative decision-making model: Part II – cost model, data considerations, and computations

An airspace-planning and collaborative decision-making model: Part II – cost model, data considerations, and computations

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Article ID: iaor20072483
Country: United States
Volume: 40
Issue: 2
Start Page Number: 147
End Page Number: 164
Publication Date: May 2006
Journal: Transportation Science
Authors: , ,
Keywords: decision, programming: mathematical, programming: integer
Abstract:

In Part I of this paper, we presented a large-scale airspace-planning and collaborative decision-making (APCDM) model that is part of a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)-sponsored effort to enhance the management of the National Airspace System (NAS). Given a set of flights that must be scheduled during some planning horizon, along with alternative surrogate trajectories for each flight, we developed a mixed-integer programming model to select a set of flight plans from among these alternatives, subject to flight safety, air-traffic control workload, and airline equity considerations. The present paper offers insights related to, and a detailed description of, implementing this APCDM model, including the development of a comprehensive cost model, a study for prescribing a set of appropriate parameter values for the overall model, and an investigation on incorporating a suitable set of valid inequalities in the model formulation. Computational results are presented based on several test cases derived from the Enhanced Traffic Management System (ETMS) data provided by the FAA. The results indicate that under plausible probabilistic trajectory error assumptions and with the incorporation of star subgraph convex hull-based valid inequalities, the model offers a viable tool that can be used by the FAA for both tactical and strategic applications.

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