Advanced Airspace Management Process

In order to increase efficiency and reduce delays, an improved airspace management process must be implemented leading to optimal route planning, better utilization of available airspace and increased performance targets in service delivery - through the establishment functional blocks of airspace (FABs). The Single European Sky (SES) project supports the establishment of the FAB through greater optimization and better performance, strengthening the ATM network through the introduction of the main objectives of the regulatory package, redesigning the European airspace in order to establish new air traffic flows; creating an increase in additional capacity, all with the aim of increasing the efficiency of the ATM system.

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Optimal route planning of traffic multi-source route based on granular computing

Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing ◽

10.1007/s12652-020-02815-0 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Jian Cui ◽

Jianyou Zhao

Keyword(s):

Granular Computing ◽

Route Planning ◽

Optimal Route

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City-Scale System-Optimal Route Planning with Route Replanning

10.1109/bigdata52589.2021.9671357 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Robert J. Fitzgerald ◽

Farnoush Banaei-Kashani

Keyword(s):

Route Planning ◽

Optimal Route ◽

System Optimal

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Capacitated vehicle routing problem model for carriers

Journal of Transport and Supply Chain Management ◽

10.4102/jtscm.v12i0.345 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 12 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Irma-Delia Rojas-Cuevas ◽

Santiago-Omar Caballero-Morales ◽

Jose-Luis Martinez-Flores ◽

Jose-Rafael Mendoza-Vazquez

Keyword(s):

Vehicle Routing ◽

Vehicle Routing Problem ◽

Network Flow ◽

Route Planning ◽

Test Problems ◽

Optimal Route ◽

Routing Problem ◽

Problem Model ◽

Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem ◽

Capacitated Vehicle

Background: The Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (CVRP) is one of the most important transportation problems in logistics and supply chain management. The standard CVRP considers a fleet of vehicles with homogeneous capacity that depart from a warehouse, collect products from (or deliver products to) a set of customer locations (points) and return to the same warehouse. However, the operation of carrier companies and third-party transportation providers may follow a different network flow for collection and delivery. This may lead to non-optimal route planning through the use of the standard CVRP.Objective: To propose a model for carrier companies to obtain optimal route planning.Method: A Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem for Carriers (CVRPfC) model is used to consider the distribution scenario where a fleet of vehicles depart from a vehicle storage depot, collect products from a set of customer points and deliver them to a specific warehouse before returning to the vehicle storage depot. Validation of the model’s functionality was performed with adapted CVRP test problems from the Vehicle Routing Problem LIBrary. Following this, an assessment of the model’s economic impact was performed and validated with data from a real carrier (real instance) with the previously described distribution scenario.Results: The route planning obtained through the CVRPfC model accurately described the network flow of the real instance and significantly reduced its distribution costs.Conclusion: The CVRPfC model can thus improve the competitiveness of the carriers by providing better fares to their customers, reducing their distribution costs in the process.

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Real-time urban regional route planning model for connected vehicles based on V2X communication

Journal of Transport and Land Use ◽

10.5198/jtlu.2020.1598 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 517-538 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Pangwei Wang ◽

Hui Deng ◽

Juan Zhang ◽

Mingfang Zhang

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Travel Time ◽

Real Time ◽

Land Use Planning ◽

Route Planning ◽

Urban Traffic ◽

Urban Transport ◽

Connected Vehicles ◽

Planning Model ◽

Optimal Route

Advancement in the novel technology of connected vehicles has presented opportunities and challenges for smart urban transport and land use. To improve the capacity of urban transport and optimize land-use planning, a novel real-time regional route planning model based on vehicle to X communication (V2X) is presented in this paper. First, considering the traffic signal timing and phase information collected by V2X, road section resistance values are calculated dynamically based on real-time vehicular driving data. Second, according to the topology structure of the current regional road network, all predicted routes are listed based on the Dijkstra algorithm. Third, the predicted travel time of each alternative route is calculated, while the predicted route with the least travel time is selected as the optimal route. Finally, we design the test scenario with different traffic saturation levels and collect 150 sets of data to analyze the feasibility of the proposed method. The numerical results have shown that the average travel times calculated by the proposed optimal route are 8.97 seconds, 12.54 seconds, and 21.85 seconds, which are much shorter than the results of traditional navigation routes. This proposed model can be further applied to the whole urban traffic network and contribute to a greater transport and land-use efficiency in the future.

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Design of a conflict-detection air traffic control tool for the implementation of continuous climb operations: A case study at Palma TMA

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part G Journal of Aerospace Engineering ◽

10.1177/0954410019831198 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 233 (13) ◽

pp. 4839-4852 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Javier A Pérez-Castán ◽

Fernando Gómez Comendador ◽

Álvaro Rodríguez-Sanz ◽

Rocío Barragán ◽

Rosa M Arnaldo-Valdés

Keyword(s):

Traffic Control ◽

Air Traffic Control ◽

Conflict Detection ◽

Air Traffic ◽

Traffic Flows ◽

Control Intervention ◽

Static Approach ◽

Operational Concept ◽

The Impact ◽

Control Tool

Continuous climb operation is an operational concept that allows airlines to perform an optimal departing trajectory avoiding air traffic control segregation requirements. This concept implies the design and integration of air traffic flows for the sake of safety performance. This paper designs a new conflict-detection air traffic control tool based on the blocking-area concept, characterises the conflict probability between air traffic flows and assesses the impact of continuous climb operation integration in a terminal manoeuvring area. In this paper, a conflict is set out by the infringement of vertical and longitudinal separation minima and coincides with the probability of air traffic control tool usage. Moreover, this research discusses two different approaches for the conflict-detection air traffic control tool: a static approach considering nominal continuous climb operations and landing trajectories, and a dynamic approach that assesses 105 continuous climb operations and landing trajectories. Finally, the air traffic control tool is implemented using Palma TMA data and proves that out of 11 intersections (between departing and landing routes), solely 4 generate vertical separation infringements. The conflict probability between continuous climb operations and arrivals is less than 10−5. Except for one intersection, that is roughly 10−2, similar to current air traffic control intervention designed levels. Therefore, results conclude the viability of the conflict-detection air traffic control tool and continuous climb operations integration.

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