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Advanced TFM Congestion Management Performance Analysis and Research Results
December 2009
Norma J. Taber, The MITRE Corporation
Claude K. Jackson, The MITRE Corporation
Anthony J. Masalonis, The MITRE Corporation
Lixia Song, The MITRE Corporation
Christine P. Taylor, The MITRE Corporation
Craig R. Wanke, The MITRE Corporation
Stephen M. Zobell, The MITRE Corporation
ABSTRACT
A key element of the NextGen traffic management concept is the ability to flexibly and efficiently resolve congestion at tactical timeframes (say, 30 minutes to 2 hours before anticipated congestion) by modifying individual flight trajectories. With better tactical traffic management capabilities, less intrusive measures are needed at strategic timeframes. But this kind of tactical congestion management requires automation support that can explicitly account for uncertainties in traffic and weather forecasts, and that can rapidly create flight-specific resolution actions which manage the risk of future congestion to acceptable levels.
To help define and develop such a toolset, The MITRE Corporation's Center for Advanced Aviation System Development (CAASD) undertook the work discussed here. Some of the research topics, including probabilistic demand and capacity forecasts and the reroute option development method, may be candidates for implementation in Traffic Flow Management System (TFMS) Work Package 2 (WP2) or WP3. The rest are intended to help define the eventual NextGen congestion management capability.
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