26th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences
including the 8th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conference
14 - 19 September 2008, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Paper ICAS 2008-8.9.3

DEFINING DYNAMIC CRITICAL POINTS FOR DYNAMIC AIRSPACE CONFIGURATION

S. Zelinski
NASA, USA

Keywords: Critical Points, Airspace Structure, Airspace Complexity, Sector Design

This paper introduces a method for extracting dynamic critical points from flight trajectories. Dynamic critical points begin to define a dynamic route structure around which dynamic airspace may be designed. To evaluate this method, critical points extracted from current day flight tracks are compared with airway intersection points and sectors.

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