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Converging Runway Display Aid (CRDA)
Technology Area
Aviation
Project Status Research completed
Inventors
 
IP Status MITRE copyright and trade secrets
Overview

This MITRE developed, Converging Runway Display Tool (CRDA), is an automation aid for air traffic controllers that allows users to precisely establish and maintain a stagger distance between two aircraft approaching on different runways. The basic function of CRDA is to project position information of an aircraft approaching one runway onto the final approach course of the other runway of the pair (known as "ghost" targets). The capability of CRDA to enable the controller to make better judgments about spatial relationships between aircraft that are approaching converging or intersecting runways has been adequately proved in operational use.

Benefits
  • Improves airport operational performance
  • Reduces arrival and departure delays at airports
  • Applications
  • Airport flight operations
  • Additional Information
    and Links

    Simulation Analysis of Dual CRDA Arrival Streams to Runways 27 and 33L at Boston Logan International Airport [PDF, 215KB]
    Improving Capacity of Dual and Triple Converging Configurations [PDF, 175KB]
    Near-to-mid Term Solution for Efficient Merging of Aircraft on Uncoordinated Terminal RNAV Routes

    Page last updated: February 15, 2006   |   Top of page

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