27th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 19 - 24 September 2010, Nice, France
Paper ICAS 2010-11.2.2

CONFIGURING AIRSPACE SECTORS WITH APPROXIMATE DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING

M. Bloem, P. Gupta*
NASA Ames, USA; *University of California Santa Cruz at NASA Ames Research Center, USA

Keywords: dynamic airspace configuration, approximate dynamic programming

This paper investigates the benefits of using a sector-combining algorithm proposed in previous research to combine generic high altitude airspace sectors. The algorithm uses a version of the simplified dynamic density workload metric modified for future automation and is studied with increased traffic demand.

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