New approach to the planning and control of air traffic in the terminal area
Husni Idris, Robert Simpson · Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference and Exhibit · 1998
A new approach to the planning and control of the traffic in the terminal area is proposed. The approach combines the path generation and the conflict avoidance problems into one problem. The objective is to generate conflict-free paths for all aircraft in the terminal area to meet the given landing schedule at the runway. It is assumed that the given schedule guarantees the existence of such conflict-free paths, otherwise, the schedule needs to be revised accordingly. This paper presents the concept geometrically, and results in an algorithm which generates conflictfree paths for all aircraft simultaneously.