28th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 23 - 28 September 2012, Brisbane, Australia
Paper ICAS 2012-10.2.2

A PRACTICAL, ROUTE-BASED APPROACH TO AIRSPACE CAPACITY MANAGEMENT

T. Kistan, M. J. Philippe, L. S. Takalani*, S. Maphanga*, A. de Olim*
Thales Air Operations, Australia; *Air Traffic and Navigation Services, South Africa

Keywords: atfm, capacity load balancing, cdm, differential capacity, dynamic density, flows, network effects

Building on a deployed Air Traffic Flow Management system we focus on published routes as key resources in airspace capacity management, exploring their role in concepts such as linear dynamic density, airside-groundside resource dependencies, exit separation management, CDM, flows, interactive HMI representations of load and system-proposed flow management initiatives.

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