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Automatic Design of Aircraft Arrival Routes with Limited Turning Angle

Authors Tobias Andersson Granberg, Tatiana Polishchuk, Valentin Polishchuk, Christiane Schmidt

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Tobias Andersson Granberg
Tatiana Polishchuk
Valentin Polishchuk
Christiane Schmidt

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Tobias Andersson Granberg, Tatiana Polishchuk, Valentin Polishchuk, and Christiane Schmidt. Automatic Design of Aircraft Arrival Routes with Limited Turning Angle. In 16th Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS 2016). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 54, pp. 9:1-9:13, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016) https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2016.9

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We present an application of Integer Programming to the design of arrival routes for aircraft in a Terminal Maneuvering Area (TMA). We generate operationally feasible merge trees of curvature-constrained routes, using two optimization criteria: (1) total length of the tree, and (2) distance flown along the tree paths. The output routes guarantee that the overall traffic pattern in the TMA can be monitored by air traffic controllers; in particular, we keep merge points for arriving aircraft well separated, and we exclude conflicts between arriving and departing aircraft.
We demonstrate the feasibility of our method by experimenting with arrival routes for a runway at Arlanda airport in the Stockholm TMA.
Our approach can easily be extended in several ways, e.g., to ensure that the routes avoid no-fly zones.

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  • Air Traffic Management
  • Standard Terminal Arrival Routes
  • Standard Instrument Departures
  • Integer programming
  • Turn constraints

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