TARGETS (or Terminal Area Route Generation, Evaluation,
and Traffic Simulation), is a research tool that has
been used to interactively design routes with controllers
and pilots. TARGETS has also been used for route assessment,
for design refinement from flight tests, and for controller
familiarization with new procedures.
TARGETS aids RNAV (Area Navigation) route definition
in several ways:
- by displaying the route on the video map used by
controllers
- by deriving latitude and longitude coordinates for
the proposed waypoints based upon video map location
- by performing preliminary flyability checks for
user-supplied aircraft performance characteristics.
Using TARGET's traffic simulation capability, controllers
can familiarize themselves with the new procedure and
examine mixed equipage issues and other operational
issues, such as taking an aircraft on the route and
sequencing and merging aircraft onto the RNAV. |
