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Air Traffic Sector Configuration Change FrequencySeveral techniques for partitioning airspace have been developed in the literature. The question of whether a region of airspace created by such methods can be used with other days of traffic, and the number of times a different partition is needed during the day is examined in this paper. Both these aspects are examined for the Fort Worth Center airspace sectors. A Mixed Integer Linear Programming method is used with actual air traffic data of ten high-volume low-weather-delay days for creating sectors. Nine solutions were obtained for each two-hour period of the day by partitioning the center airspace into two through 18 sectors in steps of two sectors. Actual track-data were played back with the generated partitions for creating histograms of the traffic-counts. The best partition for each two-hour period was then identified based on the nine traffic-count distributions. Numbers of sectors in such partitions were analyzed to determine the number of times a different configuration is needed during the day. One to three partitions were selected for the 24-hour period, and traffic data from ten days were played back to test if the traffic-counts stayed below the threshold values associated with these partitions. Results show that these partitions are robust and can be used for longer durations than they were designed for
Document ID
20100024307
Acquisition Source
Ames Research Center
Document Type
Presentation
Authors
Chatterji, Gano Broto (California Univ. Santa Cruz, CA, United States)
Drew, Michael (California Univ. Santa Cruz, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 24, 2013
Publication Date
October 13, 2009
Subject Category
Air Transportation And Safety
Report/Patent Number
ARC-E-DAA-TN905
Meeting Information
Meeting: NextGen Technical Interchange Meeting
Location: San Antonio, TX
Country: United States
Start Date: October 13, 2009
End Date: October 16, 2009
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAS2-03144
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.

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