27th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 19 - 24 September 2010, Nice, France
Paper ICAS 2010-11.2.1

DEFINING DYNAMIC ROUTE STRUCTURE FOR AIRSPACE CONFIGURATION

S. Zelinski, M. Jastrzebski
NASA Ames, USA

Keywords: airspace configuration, traffic flow, critical points, routing

This paper extends previous work extracting critical points from flight paths by adding altitude and temporal dimensions for identifying critical points, improving computational speed, and linking critical points together with flows to complete a route structure. Dynamically changing route structures for current and future traffic are extracted and analyzed.

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