TY - GEN
T1 - Air traffic complexity: An input-output approach
AU - Lee, Keumjin
AU - Feron, Eric
AU - Pritchett, Amy
N1 - Generated from Scopus record by KAUST IRTS on 2021-02-18
PY - 2007/12/1
Y1 - 2007/12/1
N2 - There has been much effort to increase airspace capacity and one of the fundamental research problems is to measure the traffic complexity inside sectors. This paper proposes a new method for describing the air traffic complexity of a given traffic situation. We view the airspace as a closedloop input-output system and define air traffic complexity as "how difficult" a given traffic situation is, in terms of the control activity required to resolve it, in response to a change in "reference signal", that is the presence of a new aircraft entering the airspace. We present a "complexity map" that offers a graphical view of the complexity for a given traffic situation. We also discuss how to extract a scalar measure of air traffic complexity from the complexity map. We illustrate our methodology with a few examples. ©2007 IEEE.
AB - There has been much effort to increase airspace capacity and one of the fundamental research problems is to measure the traffic complexity inside sectors. This paper proposes a new method for describing the air traffic complexity of a given traffic situation. We view the airspace as a closedloop input-output system and define air traffic complexity as "how difficult" a given traffic situation is, in terms of the control activity required to resolve it, in response to a change in "reference signal", that is the presence of a new aircraft entering the airspace. We present a "complexity map" that offers a graphical view of the complexity for a given traffic situation. We also discuss how to extract a scalar measure of air traffic complexity from the complexity map. We illustrate our methodology with a few examples. ©2007 IEEE.
UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4282989/
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=46449131455&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ACC.2007.4282989
DO - 10.1109/ACC.2007.4282989
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 1424409888
SP - 474
EP - 479
BT - Proceedings of the American Control Conference
ER -