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Overview of Weather and Network Path Modeling in Support of CDM Work at
Virginia Tech
Principal Investigators: Dr. Hanif D. Sherali*
Dr. Antonio A. Trani**
Project Assistants:Dr. Hojong Baik**
Maj. Ray W. Staats*
*Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering**Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityBlacksburg, VA 24061
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Project Goals
• To develop optimization and simulation-based techniques to manage air traffic in the en-route airspace
• The techniques developed in this project consider realistic air traffic management constraints (weather, safety, sector workloads, airline equity, and aircraft performance among others)
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Potential Research Impacts
• Long-term outlook for air transportation services will continue to increase at 1-3% per year
• Delays in the National Airspace System (NAS) continue to grow (due to demand concentration at airport hubs)
• Last year, the cost of delays in NAS was estimated at 3 billion dollars
• The application of advanced methods in air traffic management can produce small/moderate increases in supply
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Future NAS ATC/ATM System
VHF DatalinkAnd Voice
VHF Datalink
VHF Datalink
VHF DatalinkAnd Voice
ATC Tower
ATC TRACON/ARTCC
VHF Datalink
Departing Airport
Arriving Airport
EnrouteDatalink
Centralized, Hybrid Air Traffic Control System
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Approach to the Enroute Air Traffic Management Problem
Aircraft Aircraft Trajectory GeneratorTrajectory Generator
Aircraft Point Aircraft Point PerformancePerformance
ModelModel
Air Traffic Control Air Traffic Control Operational Operational Flight RulesFlight Rules
NAS NAS WeatherWeather
RepresentationRepresentation
Airspace Airspace PlanningPlanning
ModelModel
NAS NAS ATC SectorATC Sector
RepresentationRepresentationAnd CapacityAnd Capacity
Airline Airline OperationalOperational
RulesRules
Air TrafficAir TrafficManagement Decision Management Decision
Support ModelSupport Model
Collaborative Plans
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Enroute Selection Modeling
• Route selection in the context of a highly constrained airspace is a large, complex systems problem.
• The simultaneous selection of a set of routes that achieves system-wide objectives can have a combinatorially large set of alternatives.
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Single Route Optimization
Airspace Sectors Destination
Origin
Constraints:Schedule conformanceExpected windsFuel reserveEnroute weatherAircraft weightCost Index
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Collaborative Routing
Constraints:Schedule conformance, expected winds,fuel reserve, enroute weather, collision risk,aircraft weight, sector workload, cost index
Original planCollaborative plan
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Route Selection Models (Development issues)
• Consideration of rationing schemes and CDM principles
• Software implementation and integration into TFM tools
• Incorporate collaborative airline-FAA route development strategies
• Consideration of realistic airspace sector capacity limitations
• Consideration of collision risk and safety issues
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Airspace Sector Partitions
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An Airspace Planning Model (APM)
• Examines a finite rolling planning horizon• Considers a set of flight plans covering this
horizon that are relevant to interactions with a particular SUA or weather system event
• Minimizes the total fuel and delay cost while prescribing a set of flight plans to be adopted
• Reflects flight plan cost index, delay costs, sector capacity, collision risk, and airline equity
• Models uncertainties in flight trajectories
NOTE: Model will be described in a separate presentation by VT
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Graphical Interpretation of APM
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Weather Data Sources
Source: NWS
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Weather Data (National Mosaic)
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Weather Data (Example)
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Routes From A to B (Airbus300, FL300)
Static Path Distance: 151 nmTravel Time: 19.7 minFuel: 1942 kg
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Time-Dep. Path (2)Distance: 296 nmTravel Time: 38.7 minFuel: 3808 kg
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Computational Issues
• Adopt time-dependent shortest path (TDSP) algorithm with double-ended queue (DeQue) data structure.
• Adopt Eurocontrol’s BADA 3.3 aircraft performance model.
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TDSP Algorithm
Procedure Initialize:for (j = all nodes){
predecessor(j) = 0;if(j ≠r) Label(r, j) = infinite;
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Predecessor(r) = r;enQueue(r);
Call Initializewhile(SE list is not empty){
u = Call deQueue;d_u = Label(r, u); // arrival travel at node u starting from r at time t.Compute timeSlice_d_u; // compute the time slice corresponding to d_u.for(v = all forward star of u){
d_v = Label(r, v); // travel time from r to v.l_uv = Find travelTime(u, v, timeSlice_d_u) // find the travel time for link (u,v) at timeSlice_d_u
if(d_v > d_u + l_uv){Label (r, v) = d_u + l_uv; // update travel time from r to vPredecessor(v) = u; // update predecessor node for node vCall enQueue(v);
}} //end for
}// end while
Procedure deQueue: // find the closest node from the candidate nodes set (i.e., SE list) using the quick-sort algorithm.
Procedure enQueue(x): // insert node x into the candidate nodes set (i.e., SE list).
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BADA Model
• The cost of flight detours is a multi-attribute problem:– Travel time– Fuel cost
• Use Eurocontrol’s the Base of Aircraft Data 3.3 (BADA, Dec. 2000)
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Using BADA Model
OD Pair(Lat/Long/Elev)
EurocontrolBADA 3.3 Files
ATC PolicyInformation
Aircraft Info (OPF, APF, PTF)
MATLABMapping and Aerospace
Toolboxes
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BADA Model (Detail)
• Developed by Eurocontrol Experimental Centre (ECC) to model various Air Traffic Management (ATM) concepts– 186 aircraft supported in BADA 3.3– 84 aircraft models are supported directly– 102 aircraft models are supported indirectly (equivalent
models)
• Main outputs of the models are fuel consumption, aerodynamic and speed procedure parameters
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BADA Model (Detail)
BADA 3.3
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PerformanceTable
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1) Aero coefficients2) Mass coefficients3) Flight envelope
restrictions 4) Engine thrust5) Fuel consumption
Recommendedspeed procedures:climb, cruise anddescent
Typical speedprocedures forclimb, cruise anddescent at ISAconditions
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Operations Performance File (OPF)
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Airline Performance File (APF)
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Performance Table File (PTF)
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Mathematical Model
• BADA uses a total energy model to derive aircraft performance
where: dh/dt is the rate of climb (m/s)dV/dt is the acceleration along the flight path (m/s2)h is the aircraft altitude (m)V is the aircraft speed (m/s)T and D are aircraft thrust and drag (N)
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BADA Fuel Consumption Results
Altitude * 10000 (m.)
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BADA Results (Specific Air Range - SAR)
Altitude * 10000 (m.)
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Sample BADA Results (SAR)
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Mathematical Description of APM (Objective Function)
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Penalty associatedwith sector load
Penalty to maintainequity among airlines
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Sample Scenario
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Computational Experience
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Enroute Airspace Detour Costs
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Critical Issues in CDM Route Model Development
• Assessment of sector capacities and workload constraints
• Modeling credible aircraft flight track uncertainty• Definition of “good” finite surrogate flight plan
sets• Flexibility of performance indices to
accommodate airline and FAA practices (system level)
• Real-time implementation issues
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Research Findings
• ATM problems considering path uncertainty are very complex combinatorial optimization problems (large arrays and real-time solutions)
• RLT techniques provide some time savings to solve the problem
• Solutions obtained with APM are very dependent on the quality of the initial set of flight paths generated in the problem
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Recommendations for Future Research
• Improvements to model uncertainty of the flight path is critical
• Improvements in modeling weather patterns is needed
• Better integration between ATM Decision Support Tools and weather information is needed
• The airport ground component is critical to improve the overall capacity of the National Airspace System