Title: Estimating the Runway Landing Capacity Based on the Air Traffic Control Vertical Distance-Based Separation Rules
Abstract: This paper deals with estimating the ultimate capacity of a single runway for landings which could be achieved by using the air traffic control (ATC) vertical instead of the current horizontal distance-based separation rules. Such change of the separation rules could be possible thanks to developing the advanced operational procedures supported by the new technologies onboard the aircraft and at the ATC in the scope of the current United States NextGen2 and European SESAR1 Research and Development programs. For such a purpose, using the analogy from the existing capacity models an analytical model for calculating the ultimate capacity of a single landing runway incorporating use of the ATC vertical instead of the current horizontal distance-based separation rules is developed and applied to the generic case of a single runway according to the “what-if” scenario approach.
Publication Year: 2012
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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