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 2008-8.2.3

RELATIONSHIP OF MAXIMUM MANAGEABLE AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL COMPLEXITY AND SECTOR CAPACITY

P. Kopardekar, J. Rhodes*, A. Schwartz*, S. Magyarits*, B. Willems*
NASA, USA; *FAA, USA

Keywords: Complexity, Dynamic Density, Air Traffic Control, Capacity

In today’s operations Monitor Alert Parameter (MAP) is used as a sector’s capacity limit that reflects the controllers’ acceptable workload. The paper examines if complexity-model, a better representation of workload, based capacity limit could result in higher sector capacity than using MAP value under a variety of scenarios.

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