ReMAP: Risk analysis and conflict resolution of multi-criteria-efficient approach and departure procedures

Project information

Employer: Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWi)
Period: 36 months

Objectives

The continuous growth of air traffic demand leads to the need for increasing airspace capacities, especially at airports. Requirements also arise to perform highly efficient and eco-friendly flight operations while maintaining high-level safety. To cope with these requirements, the project “ReMAP” aims at designing approach and departure procedures for aerodromes with combined consideration of fuel-efficient, continuous descending and climbing operations (CDO/CCO) with noise abatement and implementation of risk assessment and collision resolution.

Procedure Design

The scale of procedure design in this project will cover the duration from Top of Descend (ToD) to Final Approach Fix (FAF) for approaching flights and from taking-off to Top of Climb (ToC) for departure flights. New capabilities of PBN standard will be used to perform overall optimal route from both capacity and emission perspectives. The designed procedures are given as corridors with lateral and vertical constraints, therefore aircrafts are given the possibility to plan their individual optimal approach and departure trajectory accordingly regarding real-time conditions.

Risk Analysis and Conflict Resolution

Agent-based modeling and simulation framework previously developed in the chair will be employed and enhanced in this project. Vertical profiles of flights will be coupled with lateral ones to achieve 3-dimensional detection of separations among aircrafts. Stochastic modeled input parameters (e.g., wind) and Monte Carlo method will be used to estimate conflict risk quantitatively. The simulation program will be further configured to run on high-performance computing clusters in TU Dresden for simulating multiple-aircraft-scenarios in order to allow the achievements of this project working tactically in real-world.

Publications

Lindner, M., Zeh, T., Braßel, H., Rosenow, J., Fricke, H. (2022): Traffic Flow Funnels Based on Aircraft Performance for Optimized Departure Procedures. Future Transp. 2, 711-733. DOI: 10.3390/futuretransp2030040
Thomas Zeh, Martin Lindner, Judith Rosenow, Hartmut Fricke, (2022): Optimization of Departure Routes Beyond Aircraft Noise Abatement, International Conference on Research in Air Transportation (ICRAT 2022), Tampa, FL
Best Paper Award in Trajectory Modeling/Optimization track
Martin Lindner, Thomas Zeh, Hannes Braßel, Hartmut Fricke, (2021): Aircraft performance-optimized departure flights using traffic flow funnels, 14^th USA/Europe Air Traffic Management Research and Development Seminar (ATM2021)