Arrival traffic synchronisation with Required Time of Arrivals for fuel-efficient trajectories
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Abstract
Continuous descent operations (CDOs) with required times of arrival (RTAs) have been
identified as a potential solution to reduce fuel consumption and noise nuisance in the ma-
neuvering area and without compromising capacity. This paper assesses the feasibility of
replacing current air traffic control sequencing and merging techniques (mainly based on
radar vectoring) by a control based on RTAs over known and fixed arrival routes, aiming
to enable CDOs by ensuring flight management systems have an unerring knowledge about
the remaining distance to the runway threshold. The assessment has been performed for
Barcelona El Prat airport (Spain), using arrival traffic for several representative days gath-
ered from historical data. The earliest and latest trajectories at a metering fix for each
inbound aircraft have been computed assuming engine-idle CDOs. Given the attainable
RTA window for each aircraft, the feasibility of sequencing the arrival traffic with RTAs
has been assessed by solving an aircraft sequencing problem. Results show that low traf-
fic scenarios could be properly managed by only assigning RTAs. For certain scenarios,
however, with high traffic loads and late RTA assignments, radar vectoring would still be
necessary. The distance from the runway where inbound aircraft are expeced to receive
the RTA has been also subject of study, demonstrating that the assignment of RTAs well
before starting the descent would favor to remove radar vectoring and enable full CDOs.
CitationPawelek, A., Dalmau, R., Lichota, P., Prats, X. Arrival traffic synchronisation with Required Time of Arrivals for fuel-efficient trajectories. A: AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference. "Proceedings of the 17th ATIO - AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference". Denver: 2017, p. 1-14.
Publisher versionhttps://arc.aiaa.org/doi/pdf/10.2514/6.2017-3770
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