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1996 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Modeling and analysis of terminal airspace capacity in air traffic control

Research Project

Project/Area Number 07805049
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 交通工学・国土計画
Research InstitutionTottori University

Principal Investigator

KITA Hideyuki  Tottori University, Faculty of Engineering Associate Professor, 工学部, 教授 (50135521)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) FUKUYAMA Kei  Tottori University, Faculty of Engineering Research Associate, 工学部, 助手 (30273882)
TAKANASHI Makoto  Tottori University, Faculty of Engineering Research Associate, 工学部, 助手 (70252880)
TAKEUCHI Denshi  Chubu University, Faculty of Engineering Profeesor, 工学部, 教授 (70065283)
Project Period (FY) 1995 – 1996
KeywordsTerminal airspace / Traffic capacity / Air traffic control / Area with multiple airports / 二重待ち行列モデル / モデル分析 / 航空交通 / 危険度評価
Research Abstract

Under the continuous growth of air transportation, lack of airport capacity is serious especially in megalopolis areas. Airport expansion and developing new airports are effective to reduce the congestion. However the resultant situation from these countermeasures will carry a new congestion problem, because the aircraft landing and take off to/from the airports must fly through the limited airspace over the dense airports area.
Ttaffic capacity of an airspace mainly depends on two factors : minimum separation between two aircrafts and the upper limit of controller's capability in ATC workload including maintaining the separation. The level of ATC workload varies in sector characteristics, so that the capacity of an airspace based on ATC workload should be determined as the maximum throughput corresponding with the optimal configuration of ATC sectors.
This study aims to clear which kind of traffic capacity is critical in the airspace over an area with multiple congested airports. The behavior of ATC in a sector is modeled as a queuing system and the level o workload is evaluated by the hand-off delay between sectors. The numerical examination tells us that the capacity based on ATC workload is lower than the capacity based on minimum separation in much cases.

  • Research Products

    (11 results)

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All Publications (11 results)

  • [Publications] Kita, Hideyuki: "Traffic Controllers Workload and the Capacity of a Terminal Airspace" Paper Presented at the 7th WCTR. 1-13 (1995)

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  • [Publications] Kita, Hideyuki: "An Optimal Airspace Division Model for Minimizing the Maximum Workload of Air Traffic Controller" Rep. of the Fac. Eng., Tottori Univ.Vol. 26. 303-316 (1995)

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  • [Publications] 喜多,秀行: "地域航空ネットワークの成立可能性に関する基礎的研究" 土木計画学研究・講演集. No. 18(1). 161-164 (1994)

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  • [Publications] 竹内,伝史: "中部新国際空港構想とアクセス交通計画の方向" JREA. Vol. 38. 4-8 (1995)

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  • [Publications] 竹内,伝史: "滑走路配置による離着陸待ち時間の検討とその効果の分析" 土木計画学研究・論文集. No. 12. 595-603 (1995)

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  • [Publications] H.Kita: "An optimal airspace division model for minimizing the maximum workload of air traffic controller" Report of Faculty of Engineering, Tottori University. 26. 303-316

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  • [Publications] D.Takeuchi: "The Chubu new international airport plan and the direction of access traffic plan" JREA. 38. 4-8 (1995)

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  • [Publications] D.Takeuchi: "Analysis of aircrafts waiting time on the some types of runway configuration and it's benefit evaluation" Infrastructure Planning Review. 12. 595-603 (1995)

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  • [Publications] H.Kita: "On a feasibility of a regional air transport network" Proceedings of Infrastructure Planning. 18 (1). 161-164 (1994)

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  • [Publications] H.Kita: "Traffic controllers' workload and the capacity of a terminal airspace" Paper presented at the 7th WCTR. 1-13 (1995)

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  • [Publications] T.Usui, H.Kita: "A study on terminal airspace capacity for dynamic control of airspace sector configuration" Proceedings of 50th Annual Conference of Japan Society of Civil Enigneers. 778-779 (1995)

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