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Abstract

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 closed- loop 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.

Original document

The different versions of the original document can be found in:

• http://atmseminar.eurocontrol.fr/past-seminars/7th-seminar-barcelona-spain-july-2007/papers/paper_064

• http://xplorestaging.ieee.org/ielx5/4282134/4282135/04282989.pdf?arnumber=4282989,

http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/acc.2007.4282989

• https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4282989,

https://atm2003.eurocontrol.fr/past-seminars/7th-seminar-barcelona-spain-july-2007/papers/paper_064,

http://yadda.icm.edu.pl/yadda/element/bwmeta1.element.ieee-000004282989,

http://atmseminar.eurocontrol.fr/past-seminars/7th-seminar-barcelona-spain-july-2007/papers/paper_064,

http://www.atmseminar.org/seminarContent/seminar7/presentations/pr_064_NTFO.pdf,

http://www.atmseminarus.org/seminarContent/seminar7/presentations/pr_064_NTFO.pdf,

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https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/2153157527