Abstract
The dynamic airspace configuration concept strives to remove today’s rigid structure of navigation aids, airways, pre-defined sectors of airspace, and special-use airspace to provide traffic managers with more flexibility to reconfigure airspace to address convective weather and meet fluctuations in user demand. The impact of increasing levels of air traffic management automation on controller workload and airspace capacity is analyzed. The automation levels represent a current operations baseline; seamless, integrated datalink operations; and automated airspace operations in which separation, merging and spacing guidance is provided for 33,000 ft and above without human controller involvement. Denver Center traffic and airspace for a good weather day are modeled to predict the effect of increased controller productivity on airspace configuration strategies. Results indicate that integrated datalink operations enable the high and low altitude feeder sectors for Denver arrivals to be combined into a single sector for the selected traffic demand, facilitating more uninterrupted descents than possible under current operations. Furthermore, results indicate automated airspace operations enable a single en route sector team to manage airspace below 33,000 ft that is a combination of 5 of today’s sectors.
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Published on 01/01/2007
Volume 2007, 2007
DOI: 10.2514/6.2007-7886
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA license
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