Safety of advanced airborne self separation under very high en-route traffic demand
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Since the “invention” of free flight, an outstanding question is how much traffic demand can safely be accommodated by airborne self separation. In order to answer this question, within the iFly project an advanced airborne self separation concept of operations (ConOps) has been developed. This paper shows the results of an assessment of this ConOps on safety risk under very high en-route traffic demand. The accident risk assessment is conducted using advanced techniques in agent based modelling and rare event Monte Carlo simulation. The results obtained show which en-route traffic demand can safely be accommodated by advanced airborne self separation. Keywords-component; Free flight; Monte Carlo; rare events; safety risk assessment; airborne self separation, velocity obstacles
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