In this paper, we introduce a new aggregate air traffic flow management model. Our integer programming model uses as a starting point the model recently introduced by Bertsimas, Lulli and Odoni. It employs a new set of more general airspace constructs that allow both more complex airspace elements to be represented as well as more aggregate-level modeling. We provide experimental results that i...

For years the air traffic routes have been fixed by the air traffic controllers on the basis of pre-acquired knowledge. Free flight air traffic management is a solution to move the decision making process for route choices from air traffic controllers to the cockpit. The basic idea is optimize the flight routes in the consideration of multiple objectives .i.e. the optimal path is decided based ...

The limited efficiency of current air traffic systems will require a next-generation of Smart Air Traffic System (SATS) that relies on current technological advances. This challenge means a transition toward a new navigation and air-traffic procedures paradigm, where pilots and air traffic controllers perform and coordinate their activities according to new roles and technological supports. The...

Despite the important contribution of traffic sources to urban air quality, relatively few studies have evaluated the effects of traffic-related air pollution on health, such as its influence on the development of asthma and other childhood respiratory diseases. We examined the relationship between traffic-related air pollution and the development of asthmatic/allergic symptoms and respiratory ...

Current air traffic management systems suffer from poor radar coverage and a highly centralized architecture which can under heavy traffic loads overwhelm Air Traffic Control (ATC) centers. Such limitations can lead to inefficient use of the available airspace capacity and insecure scenarios such as low-visibility landings. Future air transportation systems with e-enabled aircraft and networked...

Due to air traffic growth and especially hubs development, major European airports can easily become bottlenecks in the global air transportation network. Therefore, accurate models of airport traffic prediction become more and more necessary for ground controllers. In this paper, a ground traffic simulation tool is proposed and applied to Roissy Charles De Gaulle airport. Two global optimizati...

Traditionally, models used in air traffic flow management are based on simulating the trajectories of individual aircraft. While practical, this approach does not offer any insights into the dynamics of the traffic flow. Recently, two different approaches, (1) aggregate traffic model approach and (2) Eulerian model approach, have been presented to generate linear dynamic models that represent t...

Traditionally, models used in air traffic control and flow management are based on simulating the trajectories of individual aircraft. This approach results in models with a large number of states, which are intrinsically susceptible to errors and difficult for designing and implementing optimal strategies for traffic flow management. This paper outlines an innovative approach for the developme...