New Concepts and Methods in Air Traffic Management

This volume is a compendium of papers presented during the International Workshop on Air Traffic Management, which took place in Capri, Italy, on September 26-30, 1999. The workshop was organized by Italian National Research Council in co-operation with the University of Rome "Tor Vergata", and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). This was the fifth in a series of meetings held periodically over a ten-year span for the purpose of encouraging an exchange of views and fmdings by scientists in the field of Air Traffic Management (A TM). The papers presented at the workshop dealt with a wide range of topics and covered different aspects that are currently important in Air Traffic Control and Air Traffic Management. This volume contains only a subset of the papers presented, namely the ones that addressed the main area emphasis in the workshop, new concepts and methods. The subject of the first two papers is Collaborative Decision Making (CDM), a concept which embodies, to a large extent, the new philosophy of partial decentralization and increased delegation of responsibilities to users in A TM operations. In the first of these papers Wambsganss describes the original CDM project and its initial implementation in the form of the Ground Delay Program Enhancements. He also provides a brief description of some of the tools that have been developed as part of the CDM effort and identifies future research and development requirements.

Up-to-date information Presentation of important tools for air traffic managers

Autorentext
Paolo Dell'Olmo received his Laurea Degree in Electronic Engineering at the University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy. He became a full professor in Operations Research in 2000. He has been a visiting scholar at the Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering of University of Arizona (1992-93), a visiting professor at the Operation Research Center of MIT (1998). Currently, he is: Head of the Department of Statistics, Probability and Applied Statistics at the University of Rome "La Sapienza", he is also a Director of the Masters degree in Data Intelligence and Strategic Decisions and coordinator of the PhD program in Operations Research of the University of Rome as well as a research fellow of the Istituto di Analisi dei Sistemi e Informatica. He has been responsible for several national and international research projects and author of more than 60 scientific papers published in international journals. His primary research interests include: combinatorial optimization and real life scheduling and routing problems.

Klappentext

This volume presents new concepts and methods in Air Traffic Management, in particular: Collaborative Decision Making, as it incorporates for the first time airline companies in the management process; Congestion Pricing, as many part of the systems are and will remain saturated, hence only leveling of demand can contribute to global efficiency; Flow Management Methods, as the most important tools in planning and analysis; Models of Controller-Pilot Interaction, as deregulation increases the workload of this communication; Weather Forecast, as airport capacity is strongly affected by weather conditions.

Inhalt
Collaborative Decision Making in Air Traffic Management.- Collaborative Decision Making in Air Traffic Management: Current and Future Research Directions.- Congestion Pricing for Airports and for En Route Airspace.- A Macroscopic Air Transportation Capacity Model: Metrics and Delay Correlation.- ATM Operational Concepts and Technical Performance Requirements.- The Shortfall in Airport Capacity and Opportunities for Mitigation.- Coordination of Traffic Flows in the TMA.- Air-ground Integration Dynamics in Exchange of Information for Control.- The Effect of Shared Information on Pilot/Controller and Controller/Controller Interactions.- Limited Delegation of Separation Assurance to Aircraft. The Freer Flight Evolutionary Air Ground Cooperative ATM Concepts.- Direct-To Tool for En Route Controllers.- DNA Experience on ATM Concepts Validation.- Developments in US Aviation Weather R&D.