Stability analysis for scheduled air traffic flow
Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology
ISSN: 0002-2667
Article publication date: 28 June 2023
Issue publication date: 21 July 2023
Abstract
Purpose
Modeling and system performance analysis play an important role in the planning of air traffic system. In particular, this paper aims to concentrate on the modeling and the performance evaluation of air transportation system.
Design/methodology/approach
It has shown that system matrices inherent in the airspace network can be acquired based on the service times of flights. This paper deals with a logical modeling which can avoid temporal synchronization conflict of resources. As a result, a class of queuing system is investigated to obtain a representation of the airspace network dynamics using dioid model.
Findings
The analysis of the air traffic system is conducted by solving the system state model. This indicates that it is feasible to use eigenvalues of system model for acquiring characteristics of the considered air transport systems.
Practical implications
The departure scheduling prototype presented in this paper can offer air traffic controller a decision support tool to build optimal departure sequences for aircraft.
Originality/value
The properties of max-plus algebra described allow us to apply linear algebra concepts like eigenvalue and eigenvectors to obtain a solution to the air traffic system being modeled. By solving and analyzing the dioid model, this paper evaluated some performance measures of airspace network.
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Acknowledgements
The author would like to thank the editors and the anonymous referees for their constructive suggestions and comments on previous drafts of the paper.
This work was supported by “Open Fund of Key Laboratory of Flight Techniques and Flight Safety, CAAC” (No. FZ2021KF11), full-time postdoctoral R&D fund (No. 2021SCU12048) and Sichuan Science and Technology Program (No. 2022YFG0180).
Citation
Han, Y.-X. (2023), "Stability analysis for scheduled air traffic flow", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 95 No. 8, pp. 1201-1208. https://doi.org/10.1108/AEAT-03-2022-0071
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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